according to ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan<\/a>, while the Dodgers are also in the mix.<\/p>\nThe Mets seemingly offering Tucker $200 million shows that the team is using its financial might to try to land the soon-to-be 29-year-old while avoiding the back years of a lengthy contract.<\/p>\n
A $50 million AAV would rank third in baseball, behind only two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani\u2019s $70 million and potential Mets teammate Juan Soto\u2019s $51 million.<\/p>\n
Tucker, who has never finished higher than fifth in an MVP voting, would be making $10 million more per season than three-time MVP Aaron Judge.<\/p>\n
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Steve Cohen is flexing his financial might. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
That type of offer is one that can make a player forego a potential 10-year offer since it provides the opportunity to make more in the long run.<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso took a deal with a one-year opt-out last season in a bet on himself and ultimately made more \u2014 $185 million \u2014 when combining his Mets deal ($30 million) and Orioles contract ($155 million) than he would have last offseason or in years past had he signed a lengthier pact.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tucker, should he sign a four-year pact, would hit the market after his age-32 season, and free agency has not been kind to players on the back-nine of their careers.<\/p>\n
The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman raised questions<\/a> in a recent column regarding whether signing Tucker, for all his positives, to such a huge deal makes sense considering the team\u2019s roster construction and needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What the Mets won\u2019t offer in contract length, they\u2019re more than making up for in just how much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,29,101,4,2046,37650,1690,61,2548,4203,185,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-521813","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","19":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115899886072271501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521813","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=521813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Kyle Tucker has been offered a short-term, high-AAV deal by the Mets. MLB Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n