Will the rich get richer? The Dodgers are expected to make a play for No. 1 free agent Kyle Tucker, who’d fit nicely into the National League’s best lineup.
Dodgers people are said to love Tucker, and outfield is their one area of less than great strength. While their payroll is already an MLB-record $400M, they did try for last year’s No. 1 free agent, Juan Soto, with an offer of about $600M (with deferrals, of course) before bowing out and finishing fifth among five finalists in the biggest free agent derby ever.
The Dodgers could install Tucker in right field and move Teoscar Hernández to left, giving them a potentially productive outfield to go along with the game’s most star-studded infield. The one tiny negative is that Tucker is a left-handed hitter, which would make them slightly unbalanced.
Tucker, a great all-around player who’s only 28, months ago was speculated to possibly join Soto, Vlad Guerrero Jr. and Shohei Ohtani as $500M players, but after suffering a couple of second-half injuries, he had his lowest homer (22) and RBI (73) totals in a full season.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
