Kyle Tucker's contract is causing MLB owners to panic

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how star outfielder Kyle Tucker signing a four-year, $240-million contract with the Dodgers has caused MLB owners to panic.

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0:00.0	What's up, Dodger fans? It's Kyle Tucker here.
0:02.0	Excited to be out here in L.A.
0:03.7	Let's go win another World Series.
0:05.8	Money, money, money, money, money.
0:11.0	Not only is Kyle Tucker's new contract annoyed Matt Spiegel.
0:17.2	It's annoyed every baseball owner that isn't the Dodgers because now they're like, wait a minute,
0:24.5	what do you mean?
0:25.4	You can also pay Kyle Tucker.
0:27.4	We need to have a salary cap.
0:29.0	Pronto.
0:29.8	Yes, I believe he's done two favors.
0:31.7	The first favor is for Cub fans and others.
0:34.6	He has increased the unlikeability of the Dodgers.
0:37.9	All the other stars, extremely likable.
0:40.5	Kershaw, even though he's gone now, but Freddie, Shohei, Muki, lovely.
0:44.9	Dave Roberts, I think it's a wonderful guy.
0:48.1	Kyle Tucker, eh, vamoose.
0:50.8	I don't think Kyle Tucker's a bad guy, though.
0:53.9	Where is that coming from? I don't know that he's a bad guy, though. Where is that coming from?
0:55.5	I don't know that he's a bad guy, but he sure is easy to root against a guy who eventually checked out here. Wow. I was just coming here. Eventually, eventually. And was coming here as a mercenary and nothing but, which you tried to tell me from the get-go, Lawrence. I didn't want to hear it all year long.
1:10.2	You were right.
1:11.0	I was wrong.
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