{"id":8638,"date":"2025-10-19T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8638\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:06:16","slug":"dodgers-expected-to-be-in-play-for-kyle-tucker-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8638\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers expected to be in play for Kyle Tucker in free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will the rich get richer? The Dodgers are expected to make a play for No. 1 free agent Kyle Tucker, who\u2019d fit nicely into the National League\u2019s best lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers people are said to love Tucker, and outfield is their one area of less than great strength. While their payroll is already an MLB-record $400M, they did try for last year\u2019s No. 1 free agent, Juan Soto, with an offer of about $600M (with deferrals, of course) before bowing out and finishing fifth among five finalists in the biggest free agent derby ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers could install Tucker in right field and move Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez to left, giving them a potentially productive outfield to go along with the game\u2019s most star-studded infield. The one tiny negative is that Tucker is a left-handed hitter, which would make them slightly unbalanced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tucker, a great all-around player who\u2019s only 28, months ago was speculated to possibly join Soto, Vlad Guerrero Jr. and Shohei Ohtani as $500M players, but after suffering a couple of second-half injuries, he had his lowest homer (22) and RBI (73) totals in a full season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will the rich get richer? The Dodgers are expected to make a play for No. 1 free agent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7481,7482,20,3473,9,11,10,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-8638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-kyle-tucker","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-free-agency","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}