Tucker: Dodgers' pedigree made decision 'easier'

Key Highlights

• "It doesn't mean that it has to be two, three, four years here.
• It could be longer than that.
• For him to choose us when he had other longer term and other shorter term, I think speaks to the growth and progress that we've made on creating a destination spot."Tucker's $60 million average annual value is the second-highest in baseball history, without factoring in deferred money, behind Shohei Ohtani's $70 million in his 10-year deal with the Dodgers that runs through 2033."There was really nobody that moved our World Series odds for 2026 more than Kyle Tucker," general manager Brandon Gomes said. Tucker's signing reignited talk of management proposing a salary cap in collective bargaining after the Dodgers added yet another star to one of the sport's highest payrolls."We don't pay much attention to that because we operate within the rules and we do everything we can to put ourselves in the best position, both short term and long term, and we're not thinking about more macro things outside of that," Friedman said.
• "It is about how can we win as many games and put ourselves in the best position to win a championship in 2026 without really compromising ourselves out into the future and falling off the proverbial cliff."Tucker will play right field and likely bat second or third in the lineup, manager Dave Roberts said.
• Ohtani, who typically leads off, was working out on the Dodger Stadium field ahead of Tucker's introductory news conference.