{"id":518788,"date":"2026-01-13T20:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/518788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:57:14","slug":"mets-offer-kyle-tucker-50-million-per-year-in-mlb-free-agency-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/518788\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets offer Kyle Tucker $50 million per year in MLB free agency chase"},"content":{"rendered":"

An offseason that at the moment has been known for change instead could be remembered for dollars \u2014 a lot of them.<\/p>\n

The Mets have offered Kyle Tucker a short-term contract that is worth $50 million per season, a source confirmed Tuesday. FanSided first reported the eye-opening average annual value for the top free agent available, who is believed to also be sought by at least the Blue Jays and Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The specifics of the proposal are not clear, but it would be a shorter deal that would see Steve Cohen pay $101 million per season in starting corner outfielders, pairing Tucker with Juan Soto ($51 million per).<\/p>\n

The Mets need an outfielder \u2014 at least one \u2014 to replace Brandon Nimmo, who with Pete Alonso, Edwin D\u00edaz and Jeff McNeil left via trade or free agency in a winter makeover in Queens.<\/p>\n

Adding Tucker, who is the best bat on the market, has been an All-Star four years straight, is turning 29 this weekend and met recently with the Mets over Zoom<\/a>, would certainly change the narrative around the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"KyleKyle Tucker Getty Images<\/p>\n

Asked earlier in the day if the heavy lifting for the offseason is done and the bulk of the moves to come would be on the periphery, David Stearns said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t take anything off the table. I think we are and will continue to be involved in talks at all ranges of free agency and the trade market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An offseason that at the moment has been known for change instead could be remembered for dollars \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,29,101,4,2046,37650,1690,61,2548,4203,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-518788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kyle-tucker","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-free-agency","13":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkmets","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115889796042896513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518788","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=518788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}