Donovan Mitchell 'Sick' After Learning Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong Used to Be With Mets

Cleveland Cavaliers star and New York Mets fan Donovan Mitchell was not happy to learn that All-Star outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong was drafted and then traded by his favorite baseball team.

The Mets selected Crow-Armstrong with the No. 19 pick of the 2020 MLB draft, then traded him to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Javier Báez and Trevor Williams in 2021.

Crow-Armstrong has recorded 25 home runs, 27 stolen bases and 71 RBI in the first 95 games of his breakout third season with the Cubs.

Mitchell was a fan of the Mets since his childhood, during which his father Donovan Sr. worked in the organization.

The organization celebrated him in 2022 when the Mets' High-A affiliate, the Brooklyn Cyclones, handed out bobbleheads featuring the Cavs star.

But Mitchell still may have missed when 19-year-old Crow-Armstrong, who was at the time ranked as the fifth-best prospect in the Mets organization, was dealt to the Cubs during the 2021 season so that Báez could help fill in for an injury to Francisco Lindor.

Báez left the Mets months later to sign a six-year deal with the Detroit Tigers. Williams pitched one more season for the organization before joining the Washington Nationals in free agency ahead of the 2023 campaign.

Crow-Armstrong was meanwhile working his way up through the minors. He spent two seasons in Triple-A before his full-time promotion to MLB in 2024.

The Mets reportedly talked to the Cubs about potentially bringing Crow-Armstrong back to the organization in exchange for Pete Alonso ahead of the 2023 deadline, but Chicago turned down the offer, per SNY's Andy Martino.

Two years later, Crow-Armstrong earned his first invitation this season to the All-Star Game. He and Báez were each starters in the respective NL and AL outfields.

Crow-Armstrong hit a double in the second inning of the Midsummer Classic. That hit him the youngest player since the Tampa Bay Rays' Evan Longoria in 2008 to record an extra-base hit in his first career All-Star at-bat, per MLB.com.

It also might have brought Mitchell's attention to Crow-Armstrong's path through MLB— and the fact that it's the Cubs, not the Mets, who have him under club control through the 2030 season.