{"id":94038,"date":"2026-01-08T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/94038\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:08:11","slug":"opportunistic-mets-in-hunt-for-kyle-tucker-in-potential-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/94038\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Opportunistic&#8217; Mets in hunt for Kyle Tucker in potential blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are seen as one of three top contenders for Kyle Tucker and will be \u201copportunistic,\u201d if they can match up.<\/p>\n<p>What might make things tough: The other two top contenders, as SNY\u2019s Jim Duquette said, are the attractive World Series combatants, the Jays and Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>The Jays, whose spring training complex is in Dunedin, are driving distance from Tucker\u2019s Tampa home, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/sports\/blue-jays-ramping-up-kyle-tucker-pursuit-as-high-priced-offseason-continues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also may be likelier to go long with Tucker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers are in their usual spot, \u201caround the backboard,\u201d waiting for a rebound, as they were with Edwin Diaz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets are seen as one of three top contenders for Kyle Tucker and will be \u201copportunistic,\u201d if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19920,7481,20,3473,21528,9,11,320,10,29911,319,431,428,3929],"class_list":{"0":"post-94038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-david-stearns","9":"tag-kyle-tucker","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-free-agency","12":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-san-diego-padres","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus","21":"tag-steve-cohen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94038","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=94038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}