{"id":412780,"date":"2026-01-16T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412780\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:54:07","slug":"kyle-tucker-to-sign-with-l-a-dodgers-in-240-million-us-4-year-deal-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412780\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Tucker to sign with L.A. Dodgers in $240 million US, 4-year deal: AP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyle Tucker has agreed to a $240-million US, four-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to a person familiar with the deal, bolstering the franchise’s chance for a third consecutive World Series championship.<\/p>\n

The person spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday night on condition of anonymity because the agreement was pending a physical.<\/p>\n

ESPN also reported<\/a> the same terms for the pending deal with the Dodgers. The New York Post likewise said<\/a> that Tucker was headed to L.A.<\/p>\n

Tucker’s $60-million average annual value would be the second-highest in baseball history, not factoring discounting, behind Shohei Ohtani’s $70-million in his 10-year deal with the Dodgers<\/a> that runs through 2033.<\/p>\n

When healthy, Tucker is among the best all-around players in the majors. But the outfielder has played in just 214 regular-season games over the past two years.<\/p>\n

He batted .266 with 22 homers and 73 RBIs with the Chicago Cubs last season. He was acquired in a blockbuster trade with Houston in December 2024 that moved slugging prospect Cam Smith to the Astros.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers, the team that beat the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> in the Fall Classic last year, have won three of the past six World Series titles.<\/p>\n

The Jays were said to have extended their own offer<\/a> to Tucker.<\/p>\n

With the addition of Tucker, the Dodgers have acquired another piece of the puzzle for L.A. to try to push toward a third straight championship \u2014 a feat that no Major League Baseball team has pulled off since the New York Yankees won three in a row from 1998 to 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-412780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}