Jed Hoyer on Pete Crow-Armstrong: 'We think the world of him'

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00:00Jed, I just wonder, in light of what's happened in terms of his emergence,

00:03are those talks ongoing?

00:06Are those things you want to revisit?

00:07Or is that something that's tabled until the offseason?

00:11Yeah, I mean, so as far as the report, yeah, we did approach Pete.

00:16I mean, I think we think the world of him.

00:19And there's so many things I like about the way, not only the way he plays the game,

00:23but how he is as a teammate and how he interacts as a young player.

00:26And so, you know, we'd love to sign him long-term.

00:30Obviously, those conversations in season are delicate,

00:33and it's something that, you know, I'm sure at some point we will revisit.

00:38But right now we're just, you know, letting him focus on the season.

00:41And, you know, if there are any conversations, I think we'll just kind of keep those in-house.

00:46You know, frankly, having that get out when it did, it wasn't ideal.

00:51You know, we got through it, but we like to keep those things in-house.

00:55But, yeah, he's been remarkable.

00:58I mean, just such a, you know, such a great start to the season.

01:02And you brought up the leadoff, you know, position.

01:04But just in general, the idea of this, like, right now, I mean,

01:08he's beating you in so many different ways.

01:10His defense is just incredible.

01:13You know, obviously, he can beat you with power right now.

01:15If he hits a single, he can beat you with his legs on the bases.

01:18He just, you know, in a lot of ways, I say this, like, you know,

01:22when Javi was sort of at his sort of prime in, like, 2018 or so,

01:27there's a lot of ways he can help you win a game on a given night.

01:30You know, it might be with his glove.

01:33It might be with, you know, great base running.

01:35It might be with power.

01:36But he does a lot of things on the field that you can't teach,

01:39a lot of things that don't even show up in the box score.

01:42And, yeah, there's a lot of ways he can help you win games,

01:45and he's done that a lot this year.

01:46And, yeah, there's a lot of ways he can help you win games.