{"id":413014,"date":"2026-01-16T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413014\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:25:09","slug":"mets-reportedly-offered-tucker-four-years-220mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Reportedly Offered Tucker Four Years, $220MM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets\u2019 final offer to\u00a0Kyle Tucker<\/a> was for four years and $220MM, reports Jim Duquette of MLB Network on Sirius XM Radio<\/a>. Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a> adds that the offer included no deferred money and would have been slightly frontloaded, paying $120MM over the first two seasons. Will Sammon of The Athletic<\/a> adds that it included a $75MM signing bonus and allowed Tucker to opt out after the second and third season.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a very similar structure to the four-year, $240MM deal<\/a> which Tucker accepted from the Dodgers. The opt-out provisions were identical. New York offered a higher signing bonus and the absence of deferred money, while the Dodgers went the extra $20MM on overall guarantee. The Mets\u2019 offer would have come with a $55MM average annual value. Tucker\u2019s agreement with L.A. will be calculated a little north of $57MM annually after adjusting the net present value to account for $30MM in deferrals.<\/p>\n

Tucker and his camp opted for the higher guarantee and slightly stronger adjusted annual value. The four-time All-Star also joins a team that is coming off consecutive championships and will enter the 2026 season as the likeliest team to win it all again. The Mets certainly have the high-end talent to compete in the National League, but they\u2019re coming off a second half collapse and have probably downgraded this offseason. They swapped\u00a0Brandon Nimmo<\/a> for Marcus Semien<\/a>, signed\u00a0Jorge Polanco<\/a> to replace\u00a0Pete Alonso<\/a>, traded\u00a0Jeff McNeil<\/a>, and added\u00a0Devin Williams<\/a> and\u00a0Luke Weaver<\/a> to a bullpen that lost\u00a0Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a>,\u00a0Tyler Rogers<\/a> and\u00a0Ryan Helsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Nimmo trade leaves the Mets in obvious need of a left fielder. Bob Nightengale of USA Today<\/a> suggests they\u2019re likely to more seriously pursue Cody Bellinger<\/a> at this point. That\u2019d probably require them to reverse course on this winter\u2019s aversion to long-term commitments. The Yankees reportedly have a five-year offer out to Bellinger in the $155-160MM range. That\u2019s already a hefty annual value and a decent term, though his camp at the Boras Corporation is seemingly shooting for seven years.<\/p>\n

Harrison Bader<\/a> may be the only other everyday outfielder remaining in free agency. He\u2019s a glove-first center fielder who had a middling season for the Mets just two years ago. They might not feel he\u2019s a significant enough upgrade over Tyrone Taylor<\/a>, and he\u2019s certainly not an approximation for the middle-of-the-order bat they were trying to land in Tucker. They could be more aggressive on the trade front for someone like Jarren Duran<\/a> or\u00a0Lars Nootbaar<\/a>. Getting the Red Sox to deal the former would likely require parting with one of their talented starting pitchers alongside immediate infield help (i.e. Brett Baty<\/a> or Mark Vientos<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets\u2019 final offer to\u00a0Kyle Tucker was for four years and $220MM, reports Jim Duquette of MLB Network…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,8298,510,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-413014","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-cody-bellinger","11":"tag-kyle-tucker","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413014","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=413014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}