{"id":101995,"date":"2025-06-14T00:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/101995\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T00:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:45:11","slug":"jed-hoyer-makes-questionable-comments-on-kyle-tuckers-cubs-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/101995\/","title":{"rendered":"Jed Hoyer Makes Questionable Comments on Kyle Tucker’s Cubs Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jed Hoyer Makes Questionable Comments on Kyle Tucker’s Cubs Future<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Under no circumstances should Jed Hoyer have a job if Chicago Cubs star Kyle Tucker walks in free agency. Unless the ownership group is too cheap to allow Hoyer to re-sign him to a massive long-term extension, it should be viewed as a failure if Tucker doesn’t have Cubs blue on next season.<\/p>\n

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Tucker has been better than ever during the 2025 season, which is remarkable to consider.<\/p>\n

While he posted a 179 OPS+ last season, he appeared in less than 80 games. In 67 games this season, he has a 157 OPS+, which would be the best of his career if he stays on the field for more than 78 games.<\/p>\n

In this span, he also has 13 home runs, 12 doubles, and 43 RBIs.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Cubs outfielder Kyle Tucker (30) is greeted in the dugout after scoring against the Colorado Rockies during the first inning at Wrigley Field.David Banks-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

When speaking to reporters about the situation, Hoyer admitted that he wants to keep these talks internal. That could be a really bad sign or a very good sign. Only time will tell, but from Tucker’s perspective, he has no reason to take a deal right now.<\/p>\n

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“Obviously, we gave up a lot to get him, and you know we\u2019d love to keep him long term,” he told<\/a> Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman. “As far as conversations go, I keep that in house, but certainly he’s a player who’s going to have options at the end of the year, but we’d love to love to keep him and hopefully the best sales pitch you can have is a winning team and an awesome place to play and, so that’d be the hope.”<\/p>\n

If the slugger wants to return to Chicago, he has to understand that unless the Cubs come in with a $650-plus million offer now, there’s no reason for him to take it.<\/p>\n

Getting into a bidding war with other teams should be his and his agents’ plan.<\/p>\n

Related: Cubs Predicted to Replace Nico Hoerner With 15 Home Run Infielder<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 13, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jed Hoyer Makes Questionable Comments on Kyle Tucker’s Cubs Future originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Under no circumstances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,52,161,884,29,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-101995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-colorado-rockies","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-jed-hoyer","15":"tag-kyle-tucker","16":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114678957717048835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}