{"id":135611,"date":"2026-01-16T03:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:42:06","slug":"kyle-tucker-reportedly-agrees-to-four-year-deal-with-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135611\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Tucker reportedly agrees to four-year deal with Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the second time in as many months, the Dodgers<\/a> swooped in to secure a major free-agent signing.<\/p>\n

After weighing multiple offers this week, outfielder Kyle Tucker<\/a> reportedly<\/a> agreed to a four-year, $240-million contract with the Dodgers on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Tucker, who reportedly had been offered $50 million per year by the New York Mets and received overtures from the Toronto Blue Jays, is a four-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger whose left-handed bat will fit into the middle of the Dodgers\u2019 lineup.<\/p>\n

The signing addresses an area where the Dodgers were in need of an upgrade, after the outfield corps posted minus-1.6 wins above replacement in 2025.<\/p>\n

But the question heading into the offseason was how the Dodgers would go about improving their outfield. Although they had plenty of financial flexibility at the start of the offseason, with more than $60 million in salary from last season coming off the books, the front office also touted potential internal options. Some of those included Alex Call, Hyeseong Kim and Ryan Ward, who was named the Pacific Coast League\u2019s MVP in 2025 and was added to the Dodgers\u2019 40-man roster this offseason.<\/p>\n

The team used that flexibility to make a splash last month when they signed reliever Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> to a three-year, $69-million deal, emerging as a surprise winner after D\u00edaz appeared on track to sign elsewhere.<\/p>\n

They seemingly followed a similar pattern with Tucker, who spent last year with the Chicago Cubs after he was traded by the Houston Astros following the 2024 season. When reports emerged about the Mets offering a short-term deal worth $50 million per year, the Dodgers appeared to be out of the running.<\/p>\n

But instead they landed another marquee free-agent signing in Tucker, who turns 29 on Saturday. They are banking on the productivity he\u2019s shown when healthy \u2014 he\u2019s a career .273 hitter with an .865 OPS \u2014 but he\u2019s dealt with injuries the last two seasons. With the Cubs in 2025, Tucker hit .280 with 17 home runs before the all-star break, but a fractured right hand and a left calf strain slowed him down as he finished with 22 home runs. He served as the Cubs\u2019 designated hitter during their postseason run, which ended in a five-game loss to the Milwaukee Brewers in the division series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time in as many months, the Dodgers swooped in to secure a major free-agent signing.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[69169,2845,426,69166,69164,10198,9251,48,52,51,3376,47,50,49,69168,28259,69167,69165,26336,1543,72],"class_list":["post-135611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-40-man-roster","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-financial-flexibility","tag-four-year-deal","tag-hitter","tag-home-run","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-season","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-major-free-agent-signing","tag-offseason","tag-outfield-corps","tag-star-outfielder-kyle-tucker","tag-tucker","tag-win","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}