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NPDS - BREAKING NEWS: Kyle Tucker signs with the Dodgers for $240 MILLION!

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Kyle Tucker agreed to a $240 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers! What does this mean for baseball? Does this guarantee a lockout? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Kyle Tucker is a Los Angeles Dodger in what is a shocking move.

0:37.3

Unless you consider the fact that the Dodgers payroll is currently

0:41.8

about $90 million more than the second highest payroll currently in baseball.

0:48.8

A shocking move that Kyle Tucker got $240 million over four years from the Dodgers.

0:56.0

But wait, there's got to be deferrals.

0:58.9

There must be an Otani situation here that would possibly merit Kyle Tucker getting

1:04.9

$60 million.

1:06.2

Can't be.

1:07.3

Is it more than Otani?

1:09.7

Remember, Otani got $700 million over 20 years from the Dodgers.

1:14.9

It wasn't over 10 years. So the value of the Otani deal was around $440 million, calculated as $44 million a

1:24.6

year for luxury tax purposes. There's no way Kyle Tucker is worth more than Shohei Otani.

1:31.9

And then we got word that the deferrals are not that large.

1:36.9

Only $30 million out of the $240 million given to Tucker is deferred.

1:42.4

$10 million a year for the final three years, which means

1:45.9

the value is $57 million a year. Kyle Tucker is now the highest paid player in terms of average

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