CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – As the Cubs opened a three-game series against the Mets on Monday, Pete Crow-Armstrong was gearing up for the postseason with Single-A South Bend.
Crow-Armstrong, of course, was the prospect the Cubs acquired in a trade that sent two-time All-Star Javy Báez and right-hander Trevor Williams to New York last summer.
Entering Monday, Báez was hitting .231 with the Tigers. And Williams, on pace for a career-best 3.00 ERA this season, was a thin silver lining for the Mets looking back at a trade that now seems to have tilted in the Cubs’ favor.