Best of the Cubs: Kyle Tucker's exit feels inevitable

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In the Best of the Cubs this week, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed All-Star right fielder Kyle Tucker's up-and-down season in Chicago and how it feels like an inevitability that he'll leave in free agency; Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic joined the Spiegel & Holmes Show to discuss what the Cubs will focus on adding this offseason to fortify their club; and Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris shared their grades for the Cubs' acquisition of Tucker for a single season.

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0:27.2	Learn more at aboutamazon.com.
0:30.2	Spiegel and Holmes.
0:31.4	Hi, Boog.
0:32.0	We're a very important radio show, you know?
0:34.6	Yeah, you are.
0:35.2	Oh, very important.
0:37.2	I mean, do people have any idea? That was my sincerity there. You want me another reading of that? Yeah, you are. So very important. I mean, do people have any idea?
0:38.3	That was my sincerity there. You want me another reading of that?
0:40.7	Yeah, yeah. I'm going to count you down, okay?
0:43.1	In three, two, one.
0:46.2	So very important.
0:48.3	Oh, that feels nice.
0:50.2	Afternoons on the score.
0:53.0	Dubs Trail, three to one, eighth inning, 2 down, a runner at first.
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