Jon Heyman: Cubs are still working to sign Pete Crow-Armstrong to a long-term deal

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00:00What do you think is the future for the Cubs and PCA as it pertains to his contract?

00:05Well, they'd better sign him. I mean, I don't think they have any choice now, and we're not

00:10talking about enormous bucks. I mean, this isn't a Tucker situation. We're talking about a guy with

00:14a bunch of arb years to go, and he may not sign long into his free agency, but you've got to sign

00:21him and get at least one year into free agency, and hopefully two years. As I wrote in the post,

00:26they offered $60 million to $70 million, presumably over seven years. I heard it was $66 million,

00:34which was kind of patterned after the Lawrence Butler deal, the Tovar deal with Colorado in

00:41the mid-60s, but the Cubs have been watching. They know that that wasn't enough at this point.

00:47He's an MVP candidate, so they've had some talks since then, and they are still trying. That said,

00:55it's going to be that much more difficult. Well, he probably or might have signed, I'm guessing

01:00now, if he might have signed for $90 million earlier, maybe it'd be $140 million now, something.

01:09The price is going up exponentially based on his play.