As a hitter, Kyle Tucker has been as advertised since his acquisition by the Cubs last offseason. Over the team’s first 81 games, exactly half the season, Tucker is batting .287/.395/.527 (86-for-300) with 16 home runs, 49 RBI and 57 runs scored. The .922 OPS is a bit better than his career mark of .876 and the power numbers extrapolate to a 32-homer, 98-RBI season with 114 runs scored. He has 3.4 bWAR, so a 7 bWAR season is not out of the question.
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Defensively, Tucker is underwater with -0.6 bWAR and he ranks ninth among MLB right fielders with -1 FRV.