There might not be a player in baseball facing more disappointment in 2026 than Kyle Tucker, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ $60 million per year player with an OPS in the .600s.
Those struggles saw the Dodgers demote to Tucker to eighth in their Shohei Ohtani-less lineup on Friday. He hasn’t batted that low in a lineup since 2020, back when he was with the Houston Astros.
Part of the reason for that placement was likely the Washington Nationals starting left-hander Jackson Kent on the mound, but the Dodgers obviously didn’t sign Tucker to the largest contract in MLB history by average annual value (factoring in deferrals) planning to bat him in the…
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