Pete Crow-Armstrong continued his hot streak and Logan Gilbert spun a pair of excellent starts to earn the duo this week’s NL and AL Player of the Week awards, respectively. A jaw-dropping catch made while leaping onto the top of a wall also helped earn the Athletics’ Colby Thomas Play of the Week honors.
Crow-Armstrong made history last Tuesday, hitting the first cycle of the 2026 MLB season and the 13th cycle in Cubs history. Throughout the week, he extended a 10-game hitting streak and 23-game on-base streak while launching four more home runs.
The 24-year-old superstar went 11-for-20 overall in five games, adding a double and a triple. “PCA” has totally shaken off a tough start to the 2026 season, hitting .307/.391/.584 since April 13. His defensive prowess additionally helps put him atop the position player leaderboards this year with 4.6 fWAR (two-way unicorn Shohei Ohtani leads all players with 5.4 fWAR).
For the Cubs’ center fielder, this is his second career Player of the Week nod after earning his first just two weeks ago. He becomes the fourth player with multiple Player of the Week awards in 2026, joining Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski, Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez and Twins star Byron Buxton.
Meanwhile, Gilbert threw 13 1/3 innings across a pair of starts, striking out 18 opponents and allowing just two earned runs -- one in each start. Gilbert combined to allow five hits in that span against the Orioles and Red Sox, walking three. The 29-year-old righty lowered his ERA from 3.62 to 3.29 with the gems.
Gilbert has long shown glimpses of being one of the game’s best starters while typically being ultra durable, crossing 185 innings three times in six seasons. The 2024 All-Star and sixth-place AL Cy Young Award finisher has leaned heavily on his fastball over the past two starts, throwing the four-seamer at least 57% of the time after averaging 37% usage over the entire season.
This is the second Player of the Week nomination in Gilbert’s career, joining the week ending on July 9, 2023. During that stretch, he threw a complete-game shutout with seven strikeouts against the Giants and a seven-inning, one-run game against the Astros.
Thomas’ high-flying heroics robbed the Angels’ Jo Adell of a home run in the first inning of Sunday's thrilling 9-7 Los Angeles win.
Adell’s hard liner left the bat at 96.5 mph and would have been a homer in 14 of the other 19 MLB parks, per Statcast. Thomas, the right fielder, got a quick jump, moved toward the warning track and timed his leap perfectly without ever taking his eyes off the ball. He landed with his back squarely on the top of the short wall, with his glove extended backwards, before crashing to the ground.
Thomas held his glove up triumphantly, and starter Jack Perkins matched it with a raised fist. All Adell -- already rounding the bases -- could do was watch in disbelief.