CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong certainly has made Jed Hoyer look good this season, and that trend continued in a very direct way Saturday at Wrigley Field.

As the Cubs’ president of baseball operations joined the Marquee Sports Network game broadcast in the bottom of the fourth inning, he was asked about his team’s star center fielder.

“I think he’ll get hot eventually,” Hoyer deadpanned, referencing Crow-Armstrong’s offensive explosion over the last month.

Right on cue, Crow-Armstrong lined a ball into the right-field corner and hustled out a sliding triple.

“There are few things in our sport more fun to watch than a guy that’s a top-of-the-scale athlete play baseball,” Hoyer said. “I think about when you’re young and you watch the Rickey Hendersons and the Eric Davises — the guys that can really run and have power. That’s what he’s turning into right in front of our eyes.”

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Crow-Armstrong is in the midst of a true breakout season with the Cubs after he teased his tantalizing potential last year. He’s delivering on the promise Hoyer’s front office saw in him when the Cubs pulled the trigger on the Javy Báez trade with the New York Mets in July 2021.

Hoyer also shared a funny story about Crow-Armstrong’s supreme athleticism. The two were chatting on a field at the Cubs’ spring training complex in Arizona, and a baseball rolled their way. Crow-Armstrong flipped it up with his foot and started juggling it like a soccer ball before kicking it to a nearby catcher.

At the time, Hoyer asked him: “Were you good [at soccer]?”

Crow-Armstrong didn’t miss a beat, responding: “REALLY good.”

While Crow-Armstrong’s elite offensive production has been surprising, the Cubs haven’t been shocked at all to see the numbers Kyle Tucker has posted this season. Hoyer swung a big offseason trade with the Houston Astros for Tucker, and the right fielder has played like an NL MVP candidate in his first two months with the team.

“What impresses me is just the day-to-day at-bat quality,” Hoyer said of Tucker. “In this game, you’re going to go up and down. You’re going to go in and out of light slumps and you’ll get hot. But just the quality of the at-bat every day — he sees pitches, he swings at the right pitches, he wants to play every single day, he’s an excellent baserunner.

“He just does everything really well. And I do think there’s a contagious aspect to the way Ian (Happ) and Kyle take at-bats on the entire team.”

Check out the entire interview with Hoyer on the Marquee Sports Network app.