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Kyle Tucker has lots of free agent interest. That’s what happens when you’re the top player available.
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The former Chicago Cubs all-around hitter could go a lot of places, but the Toronto Blue Jays keep coming up in rumors.
The latest way of looking at it comes from MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. He framed himself as a “matchmaker” trying to land one free agent with each of the 30 MLB teams.
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And for the Blue Jays, he chose Tucker.
“Toronto has already made the biggest splash of the offseason by agreeing to a seven-year deal with Dylan Cease, so why stop there?” Feinsand writes. “Tucker is the consensus No. 1 free agent on the market and would make a dangerous lineup even better. Just imagine the nightmare pitchers would face with Tucker and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hitting back-to-back for the next decade.”
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Tucker has also been linked to the Los Angeles Dodgers. There are thoughts of whether he could return to the Cubs. Other big-market teams could make a push, too.
But the Blue Jays showed by signing Cease that they don’t plan on holding back.
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They made it to extra innings in Game 7 of the World Series. They were so close. They won’t want to come up short of that again.
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Would Tucker be the difference? He’d certainly be as good a lineup upgrade as Toronto could get.
The Blue Jays will need their returners to maintain their form in 2026 to get back to where they were. But if they can add Tucker to the mix, that increases their ceiling in a major way.
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