{"id":595094,"date":"2026-02-27T00:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/595094\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:29:27","slug":"pete-crow-armstrong-2026-fantasy-schmohawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/595094\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Crow-Armstrong, 2026 Fantasy Schmohawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn\u2019t about Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> and his hair. A pic of that:<\/p>\n

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That is reason to not draft him, I\u2019ll grant you that, but, no, it\u2019s not why we\u2019re here. It\u2019s also reasonable to wonder if that hand on his back is the Thing from Addams Family with its nails done. It\u2019s not, as far as I know. Not to be confused with Itt\u2019s nails. Cousin Itt didn\u2019t have hands. Itt had hair. Speaking of which, PCA\u2019s hair is awful. I don\u2019t consider myself a boomer. If you want to do things with your hair, by all means, go for it. What PCA did there? Hideous. I\u2019m not even joking. Blue hair is like blue food. It shouldn\u2019t exist unless it\u2019s natural. Blueberries? Good. Blue raspberry? What godforsaken thing have you done to the wonderful raspberry? Blue hair on old people? Good. Blue hair dyed? That shizz ain\u2019t cute. So, what can we expect from Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> for 2026 fantasy baseball and what makes him overrated?<\/p>\n

I had a debate with BDon on our first outfielders podcast<\/a> (Yes, we had two outfielder pods \u2014 four hours of outfielders talk!). The debate was about a point I made in my top 20 outfielders rankings<\/a>. I said that I felt better about James Wood<\/a> than PCA for this year because Wood struggled with Ks, a new problem that can correct itself, and PCA struggled with garbage contact. Garbage contact is harder to fix, I argued. Look at the two side by side, Wood is first:<\/p>\n

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Garbage contact is harder to fix because if a guy doesn\u2019t swing hard and hits weak-wristed doinks, he\u2019s going to continue to do that. That\u2019s his game. He\u2019s not going to suddenly wake up and hit the ball hard. But can a guy wake up and strike out less when he has a good eye (look at Wood\u2019s walks)? Yes, I\u2019d argue that makes more sense. BDon didn\u2019t agree, but who\u2019s got the bully pulpit now? Natch!<\/p>\n

It also doesn\u2019t help Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a>\u2019s chase rate is hideously awful. His Chase rate in 2024 was 41.4%, and it got worse in 2025; it was 41.7. That\u2019s what you call hideous. To go back to the weak contact, how hard is it to piece this together: Guy swings at ball in dirt outside the zone, where is that ball going if he makes contact? A dribbler to 2nd. Chase rate isn\u2019t the worst thing a hitter can do, but it\u2019s close. Here\u2019s the worst last year:<\/p>\n

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Can a hitter succeed like that? Well, there\u2019s some okay names on that list, so sure, but none of those names are going anywhere near as high as PCA in drafts. If PCA were being drafted around 120 overall? Oh, I\u2019d be interested. At 30 overall where he is going? Woof, dawg. He\u2019s going in front of James Wood<\/a> in some leagues! That\u2019s crazy. He\u2019s in front of Machado, Ketel, Cristopher Sanchez<\/a>, well, some apples and oranges, but you get the picture. PCA has helium and it\u2019s making me talk funny.<\/p>\n

Look at his fellow Chase Rate chasers, and then scan to the left to EV. PCA is worse than Sal Perez, Michael Harris II<\/a> and Yainer. I\u2019m not saying those guys are better than him for fantasy, because PCA does have speed, but those guys are better hitters. PCA has a real chance to have a 12\/16\/.216 type season. Where did I get those stats from? Well, he went 6\/8\/.216 in the 2nd half last year, so I did a \u201cjust double his numbers.\u201d That was with only a 25.6 K%. Again, I don\u2019t think of that as a positive here. He\u2019s not swinging and missing, he\u2019s swinging and doinking that shizz to the 2nd baseman. At least with a guy like Michael Harris II<\/a>, as you see above, he swings and misses or hits the ball hard. I\u2019d prefer that!<\/p>\n

Also, maybe you don\u2019t know, but Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> is a lefty. No fear of a platoon though, right? Say I am correct, so I can zap you in the head with this bug zapper! Say I am correct! Right?! Bzzt, wrongo! He hit .188 vs. lefties! I\u2019d suggest he shouldn\u2019t be facing them. So, Matt Shaw<\/a> learns how to play outfield or Chas McCormick<\/a> gets hot, and PCA is suddenly in a platoon. You\u2019re paying top 30 overall for a guy who might be platooning by June, and can\u2019t make good contact when he is hitting? That\u2019s legit bizzonkers. Stamp this guy schmohawk and let someone else draft him. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This isn\u2019t about Pete Crow-Armstrong and his hair. A pic of that: That is reason to not draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-595094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116139772187985260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}