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Kyle Tucker
B/T L/R · 6' 3" · 212 lb · born Tampa, FL, USA · age 29 · draft 2015 rd 1 · played RF 152 · MLB debut 2018-07-07
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-11): 1 G · .200 AVG · 0 HR · 0 RBI · .400 OPS
627 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
4-5, HR, 2 2B, 3 RBI — Thu, Sep 17 · day game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Kyle Tucker, the Tampa product and 2015 first-rounder, owns a career .841 OPS with 164 home runs across 922 games. Over his last 13 MLB games he's hit .302 with a .970 OPS, three homers, eight walks, and just five strikeouts — a man locked in for the stretch.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Tucker here — The Buzz September 18, 2026 · September 12, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95104.027
- Deserved (xVal)0.35943
- Got (aVal)0.32726
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02372
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $81.92M
- Tax hit
- $57.20M
- Service time
- 7 yr 79 d
- Guaranteed
- $240M
The deal 4 years $240M (2026–2029), with an opt-out — $60.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 4 y/$240M (26-29)* · agent Excel · 1 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | $53.5M | $53.3M |
| Tax hit | $57.2M | $57.2M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Los Angeles Dodgers.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $57.2M
- Guaranteed
- $240.0M
- Term
- 4 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $1.0M | $55.0M | $60.0M | $60.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
The Wire
▼ On the field: Shohei Ohtani drops to sixth in the Dodgers lineup with Kyle Tucker elevated to cleanup against LHP Robert Gasser.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-15 · newest post 2026-10-14 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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The Bureau on Kyle Tucker
The scouting press, in their own words
Dodgers lineup Betts (23 HRs) Freeman (16) Smith (10) Ohtani (30) T. Hernandez (16) Muncy (29) Pages (23) Tucker (17) K. Hernandez (4) Considering postseason Kiké there's no one who isn't a HR risk.
Kyle Tucker was called a $240 million bust. Now he's the key to a Dodgers three-peat. https://t.co/Asp6Pm51oj
Umpire favor
+6.4 net runs over 65 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Kyle Tucker’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL League Championship Series, Game 4 · LAD vs. MIL · 2-4, 2B, 1 R
- NL League Championship Series, Game 3 · LAD vs. MIL · 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB
- NL League Championship Series, Game 2 · LAD vs. MIL · 1-3, 2B, 1 R
- NL League Championship Series, Game 1 · LAD vs. MIL · 0-2, 2 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · LAD vs. ATL · 1-3, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · LAD vs. ATL · 1-4
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · LAD vs. ATL · 1-4
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · LAD vs. ATL · 2-4, HR, 2 RBI
The line
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