Two Cubs Prospects Already Demanding 2025 Roster Spots With Surging Finishes

The Cubs are coming off an incredible comeback victory Wednesday afternoon. They are now two games above .500 (68-66) and still chasing a Wild Card spot. Although the chances of making the 2024 playoffs look bleak, two extremely positive things have come out of the team’s strong stretch over the past month. 

Miguel Amaya and Pete Crow-Armstrong (PCA) have displayed surging offensive efforts, which could be a sign of things to come. 

Two Surging Cubs Prospects Giving Fans Hope for 2025

Crow-Armstrong went from batting below above .200 to hitting .233 in 275 at-bats this season. The outfielder has a .320 average and a .926 OPS over his last 30 games. In that stretch, PCA has clubbed four homers, driven in 17 runs, and swiped eight bases. 

It took some time for the former first-round pick to figure it out after a slow start at the plate in his career. However, it appears that Crow-Armstrong has officially arrived on the scene and is more than just a threat defensively and on the basepaths.

Along with contending for the playoffs this year, one would imagine a goal for this front office in 2024 was to determine what they had in PCA. It didn’t look promising at the dish to begin the year for the center fielder. Crow-Armstrong’s end-of-season showing appears to have him in a situation where he is the clear-cut opening-day center fielder for the club in 2025. 

Miguel Amaya’s rise sure has been a joy to watch. Everything has clicked for the catcher who the Cubs signed way back in 2015. In Amaya’s last 23 games, he is slashing .311/.338/.554 with four homers, 19 runs driven in, and a 147 wRC+. Ironically enough, that dates back to when Christian Bethancourt joined the big league club due to an injured Tomas Nido hitting the IL. 

If one wants to look at just the last week alone for Amaya, the numbers are out of this world. He is 14-22 (.636) with two homers, 13 runs driven in and three doubles. Amaya’s defensive presence has always been a question mark, but the fact that his bat is turning the corner despite the injury-riddled beginning of his career is a fantastic sight to see. 

Moises Ballesteros continues to soar up the ranks of the Cubs system as the hopeful catcher of the future for the club. However, a tandem between himself and Amaya isn’t too far-fetched now with how well the 25-year-old is seeing big league pitching to close out the 2024 campaign.  

Regardless of how 2024 shakes out in the end for the Cubs, two answers might very well come out of the final stretch. Crow-Armstrong and Amaya have been sitting in the final two spots in Craig Counsell’s order and have shown everyone within the organization what they are capable of. Constant production not only helped their futures but this team’s effort to win crucial ball games as well. 

If there was any doubt before, there should now be none in terms of what 2025 could hold for two of the younger faces on the current active roster based on the last month of this season. 

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