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Pete Crow-Armstrong was acquired for Javier Baez. Crow-Armstrong grew up admiring Baez’s game and is perhaps the current Cubs player who comes the closest to replicating Baez’s swashbuckling style of play.
So it’s appropriate that Crow-Armstrong’s locker used to be Baez’s, though the young outfielder didn’t know that until Sunday when he was reminiscing with clubhouse attendants and they figured it out.
“He meant a lot to this place,” Crow-Armstrong told the Sun-Times. “It was an interesting swap at the time, that I didn’t quite understand but now that I’m here I see why he was so loved.