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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 126 · MLB debut 2018-07-07
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-30): 12 G · .186 AVG · 0 HR · 3 RBI · .504 OPS
538 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Kyle Tucker, 29, from Tampa, is a career .267/.839 hitter with 158 home runs across 897 games — but his last 12 MLB games show a .186 average and .504 OPS with no home runs. A cold stretch for a proven slugger.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95104.227
- Deserved (xVal)0.35437
- Got (aVal)0.31415
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.03079
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 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, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $33.00M
- Tax hit
- $57.20M
- Service time
- 6 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 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $81.9M | $53.5M | $53.3M |
| Tax hit | $57.2M | $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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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.
Collect Kyle Tucker
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The Bureau on Kyle Tucker
The scouting press, in their own words
https://t.co/HhoMvL1QrR Thoughts on the Mets not signing Diaz/Tucker, who have struggled with the Dodgers, the accumulation of prospects at the deadline and what matters in all of that for the Mets.
I know it was a turbulent year, but I really think Cubs fans are giving Kyle Tucker a raw deal. He still turned in a 4.5 WAR season while playing through injury and helped them get to the playoffs. If it's about signing with the Dodgers...are you turning down $60M per year? https://t.co/6LFSb7oE00
Umpire favor
+5.1 net runs over 51 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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