News flash: Unlike Jed Hoyer, I’ve never negotiated a multi-million dollar contract with a player. But that isn’t stopping me from having ideas about how I would negotiate with Kyle Tucker if I was running the Chicago Cubs front office.
From a management standpoint, this is the perfect time to pursue such negotiations because Tucker’s value has taken at least a modest hit these past several weeks. He’s followed up a terrible July (.218/.380/.295) with an even worse August (.138/.231/.138).
That kind of performance ought to disabuse the market of the notion that Tucker is the star of the upcoming free agent class.