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
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
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
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[10006,2323,363,130885,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-236259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}