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FILE – Chicago Cubs’ Kyle Tucker runs the bases after hitting a solo home run during the seventh inning of Game 4 of baseball’s National League Division Series against the Milwaukee Brewers, Oct. 9, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The Dodgers have more than lived up to their role as baseball’s Goliath. They’re the most talented team around, a two-time defending champion, and they’re never satisfied. In my book, these are largely good things – I’ve never been one to go out of my way to root for the underdog. But this one is going to leave a mark. No, Kyle Tucker is not the most talented player the Dodgers have brought aboard. And thanks to Shohei Ohtani he’s not the most expensive, either. But the club’s signing of the former Cubs and Astros’ outfielder to a four-year, $240 million contract just might be the final straw that breaks the sport’s economic structure. The courtship of Tucker developed along the lines of other high-end free agent dalliances of recent offseasons. There was a team willing to go long in terms of years, with a competitive annual salary. In this case, the Blue Jays emerged as the most serious of such suitors. And there was a team willing to go bonkers in terms of annual salary over a much shorter period of time. That team was the Mets in this case. And in most past offseasons, the player would have to decide his personal priority between term and AAV and make a final decision. Everybody would then move on to the next free agent. Tucker, a really, really good but not elite player, got elite short and long-term offers and the Dodgers steamrolled both, giving him a combination of term…

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