Cubs must do anything they can to extend Kyle Tucker now that Vlad Guerrero Jr. is off the free-agency table

Jay and Vladimir Guerreron Jr. have agreed to a Extension of a 14-year-old $ 500 millionA number of FALLOUT contains peripheral effect through the rest of the league, as always, with great contracts to the players of great times. One of the big winners of transaction Is the right Fielder Kyle Tucker of the cubs now in the free agency after the 2025 season?

It can be remembered that cubes are sold with this Tucker past. Did they intend to trade in just a year that they hope to extend him?

They have to extend her, but my hunting is that this was always a one-year deal from Lame Duck Club President Jed Hoyer. And the problem seems to be ownership, not Hoyer.

Why should it be extended?

Tucker entered his own as a star-caliper player from 2021 at the age of 24. He hit .294 147 OPS + and 5.3 war. It was the first of his three straight 5+ war methods. It’s the full star level. He finished the fifth place in Al MVP 2023. Yes, he drove to the MVP level season, and while we can’t assume that he would play the same way in the second half of the season, many of the baseball history are not distracted.

So far, Tucker strikes this season .319 / .458 / .745 (233 OPS +) five coincidence, five homers, 15 RBI, 13 Runs, three steals and 1.0 war. All small design warnings are attached to the beginning of this year, but he also walks 12 times compared to six strokes.

Of course, the cubs average 6.4 run in one game. Yes, yes, it’s a small sample, but also remember that they barely hit those two games in Japan. They went to 7-3 by the monster offense state.

Tucker is the best player and the largest difference in a change in the change that was mediocre last season.

Not that should be very amazing. He was again a confirmed star last season and turned the jump into a superstardom and even last year MVP type. Hoyer saw that it fits a thousand.

• Isaac Paides, who last season the whole season at the age of 25 and is under the control of the team until 2027
• Kam Smith, who (in general) compiled the cubs in the first round in 2024 and was one of the first prospects of the organization. He made the list of the opening of Astros
• Hayden Westes, who still has a talented arm and in 195 he was able to make career places in the 105th century

If you are going to give up on that type of cargo to a player only a year ago when it’s left before the free agency is sure you have to do everything you can sign again. Yankees were here Juan Soto and lost them out. They also went to the world series. Dodgers referred to Mookie Betts for a year of one year, and then signed $ 365 million in extension. The adults did something like that with Francisco Lindor.

Are the pubs going to go to the world series? It is crowded in the National League of Dodgers, Phillies, Mets, Braves (Yes, I know they are 1-8), padres and diamondbacks and giants.

Do the puppies are going to sign Tucker again?

If the answer is neither of them, it is difficult to justify the trade. And I doubt we’re going. Because I have already mentioned the full NL, but also …

CUBS PROPERTY DOES NOT MAKE A MARKET ORDER

The 12th place, according to COT contracts, about $ 24 million than the salary of the opening day of the opening of the opening of the opening day this season this season.

They are not a tank. They try to beat NL central. They do not have a group of high-quality children in such an arbitration in 2015.

Let’s be real here. There are very few teams to have the power of Chicago Cube in this day and age. Dodgers and Yankees are certainly. Go through them. He is convinced that many arguments the greats under the big staple, but it is the key. It’s owned. Are the adults definitely a larger brand than the cubs? Maybe

If I prompt you, you can admit that no other team should be able to get out the cubs. Rangers, Phils, Angels, Red Sox and Blue Jay, hit teams such as Astros, Braves and Diamondbacks are all in big markets and have the largest cost of the League.

And they are sitting in the 12th place in salary when they try to win. It should be the top five.

If we can climb more above all this, keep the other NL central markets mentally. Beer plays in the smallest market in the major. Cardinals have a monster brand, but the market is still small. Reds cannot save. And the pirates fall under Bob, well, they also play division.

Cubs should be a towel through these teams. What happened to Tom Ricettes who used to walk around and ask for fans? Die-Hard Cubs Fan who wanted more than everything to win the world’s series. Yes, they won in 2016, and now most of his public comments are whistling about money.

As an illustration of how cubes gather next to such or small market teams, look at the biggest contracts here. We can bypass Yankn and Dodger before diving, but I will present all the deals for $ 150 million and more for the other teams above.

• Large Juan Soto, 15 years, $ 765 million; Francisco Lindor, 10 years, $ 341 million; Brandon Nimo, $ 162 million for eight years
• Rangers. Corey Seager: 10 years, $ 325 million; Hakob’s bed for five years – $ 185 million; MARCUS semester, seven years, $ 175 million
• Phillies: Brice Harper, 13 years, 330 million dollars; Trea Turner, 11-year-old $ 300 million; Aaron Nola, seven years, $ 172 million
• Angels. Mike Truth, 12 years old, 426.5 million dollars; Anthony Rendo, seven years, $ 245 million
• Red Sox: Rafael Dressers, 10 years, 313.5 million dollars
• Blue Jays: Vladimir Guerrero Junior, 12 years, $ 500 million, George Springer, six years, $ 150 million
• Brave. Austin Riley, 10 years, $ 212 million; Matt Olson, $ 168 million for eight years
• Diamondbacks: Corbin Burnes, six years, $ 210 million
• Cubs: Dansby Swanson, seven years, $ 177 million

The next highest transaction on the books, which belong to Seyia Suzuki, five years and $ 85 million, expires after next season. Ason Jason Hayvard $ 184 million is the largest for the 2016 season for the cubs.

Let’s remember that many of these other teams are on the largest free agents, while the cubs expressed the competitions like Shohei Ohtani, and we could even return to the like Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. We come for eight years since the cubs were thinking about the main applicant. During those years when they were second level, liberating free agents when a very high level of players went.

It doesn’t match where they should be, as long as the right to ownership is not more worried about the dollar, than the winning games.

There is something to be told to keep those sayings dry. And the cubs behaved correctly to see Swanson, what was better trades than what Xander Bogperts and Carlos Korea went.

It seems to me that the dust is drying for this exact situation.

Step Tukhs is a 28-year-old Superstar who can be the face of the privilege for a long time. Blue Jasie just got a job to keep the Guerrero team, probably the rest of his career. The quantities have a lot of money and not much more than 2026 books (only Swanson among the posters). Hoyer is appropriate for a very nice package of players to fine.

Everything is a line. The time to hit the long run for Monster Monster for money is now the cubs. If not, all the signs point to Tom Ricettes and the rest of his family in the cube ownership.

And while I hope I’m wrong, I doubt I’m not. The most likely result Tucker will hit the free agency in the offset and will be signed elsewhere.