Is Kyle Tucker done as a Cub?

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00:00I think you started to see real signs of that division, if you want to call it that, or

00:07when he left the team to go down and train with his personal team in Tampa, I think you

00:13got a sense of, well, there's something about the relationship that didn't seem right.

00:21From the outside, that may be an assumption, and it may be not based on anything except

00:27for optics, but they were bad optics, and so you wondered then, and there has been nothing

00:33along the way that would make you say, well, he loves Wrigley Field, he loves Chicago, he

00:39loves being a Cub, and I think that when you look at what the price would be, unless it

00:46comes down dramatically, you probably aren't even at the table, and you probably don't want

00:51to be.

00:52Now, are there mechanisms in place where you make a qualifying offer so you're protected?

00:57And there's a draft compensation, there are the details, and the devil will be in the

01:02details, but overall, big picture, I think that we have seen the last of Kyle Tucker, and

01:06I'm not sure how much he'll be missed, depending on how aggressive you are in replacing him.

01:11That's not disrespectful to what he contributed, because the first two months, we were comparing

01:15him to Cub grades, because that was the kind of start he was off to.

01:20It boded well for the future, and then he got hurt.

01:22And it's impossible to know, and it always will be, what his broken thumb, he had a broken

01:29bone in his hand.

01:31You can't swing a bat that way and look like an all-star outfielder, or look like one of

01:36the best players in baseball.

01:38I think he's a consummate professional.

01:41He never let it show that he may not have been as happy here as he was in Houston, but

01:46it never seemed that way.

01:48So I think the Cubs go into free agency, they've got money to spend, Cody Bellinger is available,

01:55Alex Bregman is available, there'll be other bats who are available, but if they're going

01:59to go north of $200 million for a free agent named Kyle, I hope that it's Schwarber and not

02:05Tucker.