Center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs has been voted the National League Player of the Month for June, and third baseman Junior Caminero of the Tampa Bay Rays has been voted the American League Player of the Month for June. The announcements were made earlier today on MLB Network.
Crow-Armstrong earned his first career award and is the first Cubs player to win since Cody Bellinger in July 2023. Overall, he is the 15th Cubs player to win the award, marking Chicago’s eighth honor since 2000. Caminero also won his first career award, becoming the fourth Rays player to earn the honor, joining Evan Longoria (April 2009); B.J. Upton (June 2009); and Austin Meadows (September 2019). In addition to Drew Rasmussen’s honor as AL Pitcher of the Month, it marks the first time in franchise history that Tampa Bay has won both awards in the same month, becoming the first club to achieve the feat since Aaron Judge and Max Fried won for the New York Yankees in September 2025.
Pete Crow-Armstrong, Chicago Cubs (@petecrowarmstrong)
- The 24-year-old hit .381 (40-for-105) with 11 homers, 20 RBI, five doubles, two triples, 17 walks, 21 runs scored, eight stolen bases, a .781 slugging percentage and a .468 on-base percentage in 26 games.
- The Sherman Oaks, California native paced the Majors in on-base percentage, slugging, OPS (1.249), hits, extra-base hits and total bases (82); ranked second in batting average; tied for second in homers; tied for fourth in stolen bases; and tied for sixth in runs scored.
- The 2025 All-Star hit for the cycle on June 15th against Colorado, marking the 13th cycle in Cubs’ history and the first cycle across the Majors since Minnesota’s Byron Buxton last July. He became Chicago’s first player to hit for a reverse cycle (hitting a home run, triple, double and single in order) and became the first Cubs player since Hall of Famer Andre Dawson on April 29, 1987 to complete
- a cycle within his first four plate appearances. After a game-tying sacrifice fly from Crow-Armstrong in the ninth inning, Chicago came back to win the game in walk-off fashion as Crow-Armstrong became the 22nd player since 1901 to hit for the cycle in a game that his Club won via a walk-off.
- The 2025 Rawlings Gold Glover followed up his cycle with homers in each of his next two games and four of his next five contests, becoming the sixth player in Major League history to hit for the cycle and homer in his next two games, per Elias. He joined: Aaron Hill (June 18-20, 2012); Mike Phillips (June 25-27, 1976); Hall of Famer Willie Stargell (July 22-26, 1964); Hall of Famer Joe Medwick (June 29-July 2, 1935); and Hall of Famer George Sisler (August 8-10, 1920). Among his 11 homers in the month, six came within an eight-game span, making him the youngest Cub with as many homers in an eight-game stretch since Christopher Morel in May 2023.
- The 19th overall pick in the 2020 Draft (by NYM) became the third player in Major League history to have a calendar month with at least a .375 average, a .775 slugging percentage, 80 total bases, 10 home runs, five steals and 15 walks. He joined Hall of Famers Babe Ruth (3x: June 1920, July 1920 & May 1930) and Lou Gehrig (June 1930) on that list. He became the first Cub with 10 homers and five steals in a month since Sammy Sosa in June 1996 (10 HR/6 SB) and just the third player in the Statcast Era (since 2015) with at least 11 homers and eight steals in a month, joining Shohei Ohtani (12 HR/15 SB in August 2024) and Ronald Acuña Jr. (11 HR/11 SB in September 2023) during their NL MVP winning seasons. Crow-Armstrong hit a walk-off single on June 4th, marking the first walk-off of his career.
- The Harvard-Westlake High School product, who was named the NL Player of the Week twice in June, recorded a hit in 17 of his 21 games and reached base safely in all but one contest. He registered a career-best 14-game hitting streak from June 10th-25th, hitting .441/.500/.898 with six homers, 13 RBI and a 1.398 OPS. It was the longest single season hitting streak by a Cubs player since Javier Báez, for whom he was traded, hit in 15 consecutive games from May 1-17, 2019. After a pair of stolen bases on June 28th at Milwaukee, he is one homer shy of becoming the third Cubs player with multiple 20-20 seasons, seeking to join Sosa (4x: 1993-95, 1997) and Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg (3x: 1985, 1990-91).
Junior Caminero, Tampa Bay Rays (@caminero)
- The 22-year-old hit .327 (32-for-98) with 10 homers, 24 RBI, four doubles, 13 walks, 19 runs scored, a .673 slugging percentage and a .402 on-base percentage across 26 contests.
- The Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic native ranked fourth among Major League hitters in slugging, OPS (1.075); tied for fourth in homers; ranked fifth in RBI; and tied for sixth in total bases (66).
- The 2025 All-Star closed out his month with a home run in each of his last five games and extended his homer-streak with a two-run blast on Wednesday at Kansas City, becoming the second player in franchise history with a home run in six straight games, joining Carlos Peña (June 6-12, 2010). Per Sarah Langs, he became the youngest player since at least 1900 to homer in six straight games and his nine homers across his last eight contests are the most in an eight-game span by a player under the age of 23.
- The 2026 T-Mobile Home Run Derby participant started his torrid stretch with a three-homer game
- against the Royals on June 25th, marking the eighth three-homer game in franchise history. It was the first such game since Isaac Paredes on June 21, 2022, with Caminero (22.355) becoming the second-youngest Ray to achieve the feat, trailing only Evan Longoria, who was 22 years 347 days old on September 18, 2008. Caminero became the first player in franchise history to homer in the first inning of three consecutive games with first-inning blasts on June 25th-27th. Overall, his 23 home runs before July matched Peña (2009) for the second-most in franchise history behind only José Canseco (28 HR in 1999).
- The runner-up at the 2025 T-Mobile Home Run Derby became the second player in franchise history with multiple 10-homer months in his career after hitting 12 home runs last August. He joined Peña, who connected on 13 homers in September 2007 and hit 12 home runs in August 2009. It marked just the second time in franchise history that a player had at least 30 hits and 10 home runs in a single month, and the first time since May 2003.
- Caminero, who will celebrate his 23rd birthday on Sunday, is the eighth player in the Divisional Era (since 1969) with multiple months of at least 10 homers before turning 23, joining Acuña Jr. (August 2018 & August 2019); Hall of Famer Johnny Bench (June & July 1970); Juan Gonzalez (June & August 1992); Bryce Harper (May & September 2015); Juan Soto (August 2019 & August 2020); Giancarlo Stanton (May & August 2012); and Fernando Tatis Jr. (August 2020 and June 2021).
Others receiving votes for NL Player of the Month included first baseman Luis García Jr. (.306, 11 HR, 27 RBI, 5 2B, 1 3B, 6 BB, 17 R, .776 SLG) of the Washington Nationals; catcher Hunter Goodman (.250, 13 HR, 25 RBI, 4 2B, 10 BB, 19 R, 2 SB, .680 SLG) of the Colorado Rockies; and outfielder Jackson Chourio (.319, 10 HR, 25 RBI, 7 2B, 23 R, 1 SB, .638 SLG) of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Others receiving votes for AL Player of the Month included catcher Dillon Dingler (.333, 8 HR, 25 RBI, 6 2B, 2 3B, 3 BB, 22 R, .657 SLG) of the Detroit Tigers; and outfielder/designated hitter Yordan Alvarez (.344, 6 HR, 21 RBI, 4 2B, 19 BB, 20 R, .455 OBP) of the Houston Astros.