Kyle Tucker Signs With the LA Dodgers | WFAN Daily With Pete Hoffman

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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4 years and $240 million dollars. The Los Angeles Dodgers have done it again. Follow @HoffWFAN on X, Instagram, TikTok

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0:00.0	Hello. WFandelli with your host, Pete Hoffman.
0:06.2	Breaking news.
0:07.4	If you just found out, if you just woke up, whatever the case is, if you're following right now,
0:13.6	Kyle Tucker has made a decision, and it is not to go to Queens.
0:18.4	It is not to go to Toronto.
0:20.5	Surprisingly shocking enough, he is going to the LA
0:23.4	Dodgers. And let me just make this clear. Okay. I complain a lot about the LA Dodgers and their
0:32.1	deferrals. This is why. When you are a team, and again, think about this really quickly before we go into anything else.
0:42.1	Just the point being made, if Shawy Otani was really getting paid $70 million this year,
0:52.0	they would not be able to sign Kyle Tucker to this deal.
0:55.4	Because right now, the Dodgers total payroll is somewhere around $413 million
1:02.4	with this Kyle Tucker deal.
1:06.1	Okay, with all the luxury taxes and everything included, it's upwards to over $400 million.
1:13.9	Showy Atani would put that to over $500 million.
1:16.6	The deferrals saved their ass to be able to do moves like this.
1:21.4	But now, let's move forward.
1:23.7	Kyle Tucker, you jerk.
1:27.2	You screwed us.
1:29.1	Well, you didn't screw us.
1:31.3	The game screwed us because David Stern is playing a game right now.
1:36.6	He is playing this tightrope game.
1:39.1	He doesn't really want to risk a lot of money.
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