While those questions were prevalent during the offseason, and have been since Crow-Armstrong made his debut, Dustin Kelly, the Cubs' hitting coach, revealed in an interview with Patrick Mooney of The Athletic that the team was never too worried about his offensive production.

John Hauldren has been a Chicago Cubs fan all his life. During the team’s last homestand, he got a text message from a high school friend. It was the first text he had received from him. Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong had just used “Front to Back” — a song from Hauldren's electronic music group,

Another positive contributor to this Cubs team has been Pete Crow-Armstrong, who can seemingly do anything on the baseball field. He has plus speed, is a strong defender, and has been highly productive at the plate as well.

A fan is in critical condition after he fell from a 21-foot wall during the Pirates-Cubs game at PNC Park. The incident occurred Wednesday night after Andrew McCutchen’s hit in the seventh inning bounced through the left side of the Cubs infield and deflected into shallow right.

A man who fell from the 21-foot-high Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park during Wednesday night’s game remained in critical condition on Thursday morning.

In corresponding moves, the Cubs transferred right-hander Javier Assad from the 15-day IL to the 60-day and optioned left-handed reliever Tom Cosgrove to Triple-A.