Jon Heyman tells us that the Jays offer to Kyle Tucker was $350 million for 10 years. He signed a 4-year, $240 million contract with the Dodgers. So I guess the question is will he be able to find a 6-year, $110 million contract at age 33.
I guess it is best to get the money now. And there are likely tax issues that I wouldn’t know about, but I guess the Dodger contact would be the better one. We’ll have to see what happens in four years.
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Either way, he won’t have to look for a job after baseball.
Jeff Passan has the information on Tucker’s contract:
Bo getting the three-year, $126 million contract is interesting, too. I’ve long thought he wouldn’t age well, that his impressive batting ability is mostly reflexes and that players who tend to age well are the ones who control the strike zone better. I didn’t expect anyone to offer him $40+ a season. It will take him to his age 31 season and he’ll likely be able to get a pretty good contract after that.
I’m not sure I think that third base is the right spot for him, but he’ll likely be fine there. I think second or left would have been better fit.
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It will be strange seeing Vlad without Bo, we’ve had seven seasons with the pair of them. Between the two, they had a 46.9 bWAR and 294 home runs. They’ve made seven All-Star teams. By bWAR they are the 7th (Vlad) and 13th (Bo) best positions players in team history.
Jesse Barfield and George Bell came up the same season (1981, though Bell was back in the minors for the 1982 season). They played together until Barfield was traded in 1989. Thought the 1988 season Barfield had a 29.3 bWAR, Bell 17.1.
Carlos Delgado and Shawn Green came up about the same time, but we traded Green before he built up a lot of WAR.
I’m sure there are other pairings that came up at the same time for the Jays, I just can’t think of them at the moment.
