(Jon Heyman) “Blue Jays offer to Kyle Tucker was $350M for 10 years. They certainly put in a big effort.”
(Jon Heyman) “Blue Jays offer to Kyle Tucker was $350M for 10 years. They certainly put in a big effort.”
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If that was the case, Tucker was leaving $110 million / 6 years on the table — which is a bit low for someone of his calibre on the open market.
He probably made the right choice choosing the Dodgers offer, if getting the most amount of money was his goal
Damn that’s a great competitive offer
* Ohtani? Not a homegrown player
* Yamamoto? Not a homegrown player
* Mookie? Not a homegrown player
* Tucker? Not a homegrown player
* Snell? Not a homegrown player
* Freeman? Not a homegrown player
* Glasnow? Not a homegrown player
* Edwin Diaz? Not a homegrown player
* Teoscar? Not a homegrown player
* Sasaki? Not a homegrown player
Say it with me: FUCK THE DODGERS
Seems like Heyman still shilling for Boras. “Watch out, Yankees. Toronto’s got money to spend on an outfielder…”
players aren’t gonna take normal offers anymore ig
Tucker is a clown, and the Doyers are the circus
Wow, would you look at that, a contract offer based in reality.
Man after seeing the final figures for the Bichette and Tucker deals, this offer doesn’t move me anymore
2 years ago I would’ve been like WOW, now this is a “normal” offer
While that offer is in line with what tucker is worth, he would’ve been dumb to take this over the insane deals NY and LA were offering because there’s a good chance he’ll get an offer above 6 years $110M 4 years from now.
A good, sensible offer in my opinion, but you can’t compete with a $60 million aav.
It was all fun and games when the Yankees would outspend everybody, and still figure out a way to fuck things up before/in October, but the Dodgers are actually competent, so I feel like we need to level things out somehow
Sick of these teams thinking they can just buy the league with their limitless money. Thank you Kyle Tucker, for choosing the PASSION TO WIN of the Los Angeles Dodgers over the corporate fat cats in Canada! /s
You’re all thinking about this wrong – maybe he really does hate baseball, so now he only has to play 4 more years
A very strong offer for the guy who will probably be the best FA hitter to hit the market until Kyle Tucker in 2028.
These guys see players like Judge, Harper, Tatis, Acuna who are all locked up long term for way under their value and don’t want to be another. They are confident they will continue to be good players who can get another short term deal in a couple years.
Hot take: Super teams make baseball fun. I don’t need to see Kyle Tucker on the pirates for no reason
Players are probably starting to consider these high AAV deals also give them the opportunity to invest that money.
After-tax 60 million is going to earn a bunch of money over 10 years.
Honestly, 10 years for a guy with previous mysterious lower body injuries, I dunno, maybe the Jays dodged one here.
Folks are comparing the offers in terms of him being healthy enough at 33 to command an offer to make up for the $110mil, but he also probably really likes his chances of getting a ring in these next four years. I’d take that plus $60mil a year every time.
Yeah but only 4 years and more money blew everything else out of the water. Jokes on the dodgers though the guy is average.
Hate to break it to you, but a salary cap is not going to help get high caliber players to your team. An actual solution would be to change broadcasting rights to mlb to not be own by teams. That’s where the money is coming from. A cap is simply going to limit every organization the same
How pissed was Bo that the Blue Jays wanted Tucker over him that he went and agreed to sign with the Phillies then the Mets instead of going back to the team that just went to the World Series
He’s almost certainly gonna make more money overall with the dodgers deal and then opting out
I don’t know. I watched him play this past season with the Cubs.he didn’t impress me all that much
Why are fans being such cry babies about this. Everyone used to cry about players signing for 10+ years. Now players are signing shorter deals are yall are still crying.
Dude wanted to be a dodger about mid august last year
I mean yeah this offer has length, but the other 2 offers were much more girthy which matters more.
I think their biggest mistake was not realizing that Kyle doesn’t seem like he wants to play for another 10 years.
Baseball players looking at reasonable big contracts now.
Thats not even in the same universe as 4/240m
Inside source from current Cubs player at Cubs Con yesterday, “Tuck didn’t have the best work ethic, nobody is gonna miss him”
Why would anyone take 35 million a year when the Dodgers are offering 60?
“We’re gonna pay you wayyyy more AND you’re going to win”. Yeah it sucks for fans of the other 29 teams, but be real…who is going to say no to that?
The more I think about Tucker’s contract, the better I understand why both sides like it.
Tucker is betting that he’ll be better than $110 x 6 after this contract runs out.
Whereas the Dodger’s are making him a high AAV offer he can’t refuse, but in turn, they give themselves a chance to reevaluate him after his prime years to see if they can get him way cheaper down the road and if not, it’s ok because they got the best years out of him without being Rendon’d.
Imagine if LAA had a chance to reevaluate Anthony and say “hey dude, thanks for the 3-4 years of nothing, but we gotta pay Shohei now, so we’re not going to try to extend you because the next 3 years of you would be absolute trash.”
Teams are just scared to be Anthony Rendon’d now and have found a new way to ensure they don’t screw themselves over for the last half of the contract. It can be an expensive gamble, but if they manage to re-sign Tucker later at say $120/6, it’ll effectively be the same deal the Jays’ offered in the end.
Tucker also gets to live in Southern California.
100 mil more for 6 more years. If he performs he’ll top that as a FA. Easy decision