Getting the shorter deal before the longer one is working out for way too many players for Kyle Tucker to ignore.
If Kyle Tucker joins the New York Mets, it probably won’t be for more than a year (or two). Maybe three? In either case, those hot and heavy Mets rumors involving Kyle Tucker aren’t going to evaporate. He’s holding up the market right now, but the weekend signing of Alex Bregman by the Chicago Cubs gave him a nudge of acceptability to take a shorter contract.