Dodgers Sign Kyle Tucker: World Series Champs Get BETTER & Blue Jays Must Pivot | MLB Reaction - video Dailymotion

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The Los Angeles Dodgers signed Kyle Tucker, and the World Series champions just got BETTER. People will hate on them for outspending their problems, but I wish more teams attacked issues this aggressively. This STINGS for the Blue Jays—time to pivot their strategy.  DODGERS GET BETTER The World Series champs added Kyle Tucker and improved an already elite roster. People will complain they're just outspending their problems, but I wish MORE teams looked this aggressively at fixing their issues. The Dodgers identify what they need and GO GET IT. That's how you stay competitive.  BLUE JAYS MUST PIVOT This stings for Toronto. Missing out on another superstar shows they need to PIVOT away from chasing big-name free agents. They have Vlad Guerrero Jr., that's their star. Now, just try to own the second tier of players, focus on draft and develop, and build around Vlad instead of swinging for the fences on every marquee name that hits the market.  The Blue Jays keep missing on these superstars. At some point, you have to change the approach.  ⚾ Full Kyle Tucker signing breakdown  💬 SHOULD MORE TEAMS SPEND LIKE THE DODGERS? Or is this ruining baseball? And what should the Blue Jays do now? ⬇️  👍 SUBSCRIBE to Couch Potato Diary for great baseball coverage  #MLB #Dodgers #KyleTucker #LosCelesDodgers #BlueJays #TorontoBlueJays #VladGuerreroJr #MLBOffseason #MLBTrades #BaseballNews #DodgersNews #WorldSeries #MLB2025 #BaseballAnalysis #MLBFreeAgency #CouchPotatoDiary #PeterKlein #MLBPodcast #SportsAnalysis #BaseballPodcast  🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00So let's talk about what has been a wild 24 hours in the baseball world. Let's start with the big,

00:06big, big signing of the offseason, as Kyle Tucker is on his way to the Los Angeles Dodgers on a

00:12gigantic contract that has sent the baseball world all over the place.

00:18So, Major League Baseball's evil empire now resides in Los Angeles. After that was the

00:33nickname of the Yankees for a long time, the Dodgers have one-upped what the Bronx Bombers

00:38of that era were doing with the signing of Kyle Tucker, a $60 million contract that when you

00:44luxury tax and everything will cost the Dodgers $126 million. And there are a lot of different ways

00:52you can go and look at this one. Let's start with what it means for the Dodgers. And obviously,

00:58the World Series champions get better. And from a baseball standpoint, I think there's a reason why

01:04this aspect of it hasn't been discussed as much. And that's because we already were talking about

01:12the best team in baseball. And now it's just, it is tough to comprehend when you have a top of the

01:18lineup of Otani, Betts, Freeman. Now you're adding Kyle Tucker to it with then Muncy behind and Teoscar

01:27Hernandez and Will Smith, one of the best catchers in the sport. This is the juggernaut, the likes of

01:36which we have not seen in a really long time. And look, like the Dodgers, obviously, back-to-back

01:42World Series championships. They won this year not playing their best. This was not their best season.

01:49And they got pushed to the limit by the Blue Jays in a series that, when you look back on it,

01:55Toronto probably should have won. When we're talking about different decisions that could have been made

01:59in the 18 inning game, when you're looking at the ball that gets wedged in the outfield. And just a

02:07couple, we don't have to go back over it, but the Blue Jays had a lot of opportunities to beat the

02:11Dodgers. And LA still comes out on top in a season where they weren't their best, in a season where they

02:18had a team that felt like a team of destiny going up against them. And now, like, Sasaki is only going

02:27to get better. And then you add in, um, you add in Diaz at the back of that bullpen, which was the

02:33only, like, flaw that this team had. And now, instead of, okay, well, let's just make a bit of

02:39a tweak here in the outfield. You go get the best free agent in the sport, then it just, it feels very

02:45juggernaut-ish to me. So, for the Dodgers, like, I don't, I don't begrudge the Dodgers for what they

02:51are doing here. This is the system that they are in, and I think more teams should be like this.

02:56Instead of, okay, well, we have this hole. Well, we can plug it with this guy. It's like, okay,

02:59we have this hole. Let's get the best player available for that. Um, so, like, credit to

03:06them. I wish more teams were as aggressive. And the Blue Jays have been aggressive, but, um, it just,

03:11it has fallen short a number of different times. I was saying with the Bregman contract that it's

03:18tough for me to analyze contracts in baseball because it's just, it, there's no salary cap. Just pay them.

03:23If you can afford it, pay them. And all these teams can afford it, so just, just do it. I, like, I had a

03:27tough time saying, okay, well, this guy's overpaid. Well, this guy's overpaid. Like, well, look at what

03:31the Blue Jays just did. They made a hundred million dollars for their owners with their run to the

03:38postseason and within a run of the World Series. A hundred million dollars. So, that pays for any

03:44investment you want to make in any player. And so, I was saying, like, man, I don't, like, it's, it's tough

03:49to say there's a bad contract in baseball. These, these have come close. Um, like, this is an absurd

03:55amount of money to be paying what is probably seventh most important player on your baseball

04:02team. Um, like, just, just an insane, insane, insane amount of money. A $60 million contract

04:11for Kyle Tucker. I just, like, when I saw the news, I was really frustrated by it. And then you see the

04:18contract, it's like, I can't even, you can't even get upset at the Blue Jays not doing that. Or, uh,

04:22the Mets or the Yankees or whoever. Like, that's just, that is absurd to, to sign that guy. And for

04:28Tucker, I don't begrudge going out and getting paid because that's a lot of money, right? Like, that's,

04:36that absurd amount of money. I would like to be the one on the receiving end of a sort of, uh,

04:40absurd amount of money at some point in my life. Um, that being said, some of the reasoning in the

04:46reporting behind it feels borderline cowardly when it's like, well, he didn't really want to go to

04:52Toronto and he didn't want to be like the face of the franchise type of a guy. So he thought he

04:57could go to the Dodgers, still be competitive, still be a big part of it, but not have to be

05:01the guy. And it's like, man, that's, that just kind of goes against a lot of what you would want

05:06someone making that amount of money to be. So I, I, I joked about it. We did a Twitch stream,

05:11um, when the, the news, uh, when the Bo news broke, uh, talking about a different, a few

05:16different things. And I, I joked, but it's not entirely inaccurate. If, if Tucker would have

05:23signed with the Blue Jays, there are some things that obviously we'd be overlooking. And now that

05:26he hasn't, they all of a sudden become main character plots for him. But you did hear some

05:32stuff about how he's not awesome in the locker room. And now to have that come out and say like,

05:38he didn't want to be the one kind of carrying everything, but still be paid like someone

05:42carrying everything. Um, it just, there are a couple of red flags that are popping up around

05:47this guy that maybe make it feel like this is not the worst player that you missed out on talent wise.

05:54There's no question about it. And he's going to be amazing with the Dodgers and everything like

05:59that. But it's just, yeah, there's a couple of things that have popped up that make it a little

06:03bit like, Hmm, maybe, maybe an unanswered prayers sort of a situation happening. Uh, but again,

06:08if he signed with the Blue Jays, I would not be talking about, Hey, you know, a couple of red

06:11flags. Um, so I, I'm, I'm in fully admitting some bias on this on the Blue Jays front. I said this

06:17again on the Twitch stream, this I think needs to signal to Toronto that a strategic shift has to

06:26happen now. And they got to within again, a heartbeat of the world series a few times. So what they did

06:32worked last season, but this whole go out, make a big presentation, a big splash for the big name

06:40free agents and hope that, um, hope that it works and have it stall out for a while. And then, Oh,

06:46it didn't work. What are we going to do? This has been three off seasons in a row. And now Toronto,

06:50this off season got their work done early, at least so they could afford to just kind of sit back

06:55and wait. But if they were maybe that aggressive in the bow market, maybe our next segment was going

07:01to be about Bobachette sticking with Toronto, right? Like it, it was obvious who the apple of

07:05their eye was. And it is feeling more and more obvious that the Blue Jays are being strung along

07:12in these to boost up the, the value of these contracts rather than a real legitimate thing.

07:20Cause there's, there is never going to be a better time to recruit players to Toronto than now. When you

07:26hear all the stuff about the clubhouse, all the stuff about how this team was amazing for

07:30families to be with and all of that. And then to add onto it, they gave the Dodgers an incredible

07:37scare. This was the time that they were going to be able to recruit someone big, like a Kyle Tucker

07:42to be able to come in and really just put that team away. And they didn't do it. And so now I think you

07:48have to accept those guys aren't coming to Toronto, whether it's because of Canada, whether it's because

07:52of this, that, and the other thing, who knows, but they're not, they're not coming here. They don't want

07:57to have to get their passport out every time they come home from a road trip, which seems like the

08:01most pampered ass shit you could think of. But that apparently is where these players are coming

08:06from. So whatever, I think you now have to pivot and try to own the second tier of free agents and

08:13try to, okay, we, we, we have our star in Vlad. We had a secondary one in Bowen, that's one, but you have

08:20your star in Vlad. Now let's build around it with like the second tier of guys and really own that

08:25area and continue to improve the draft develop system that they have going on. That there were

08:32quite a few success stories from this minor league system over the last 18 months. I think there need

08:37to be more of them now. Like this just, this isn't working now. It's not, it's three strikes and you're

08:42out. I think you have to pivot now strategically if you are the Blue Jays. And we'll, we'll talk more

08:49about what they have missed out on with Bow here. Like, obviously that's the, the next thing that

08:53we're going to be talking about, but for them, this is still a good off season. Like it is still

09:00a successful one. And this is still a team that is better than the one that exited the world series.

09:06But that is because of the pitching. Now the offense is not for a 162 game season. It's not like

09:13they, they made a great run in the playoffs without Boba Shett, but I don't think they get to the

09:17playoffs without him. And that's like the guy who led the league, almost led the league in hits

09:23with missing the last month of the season. And they really missed him in that last month of the

09:29season before they were able to turn it around, excuse me, after Kirk got thrown out at first

09:34base from right field. So this is, this is obviously a hit for Toronto to not get one of these two guys

09:42would have made them the stone cold walk favorite out of the American league. And there's still time.

09:48I think there is probably still a move coming for this blue Jays team, but they're going to have to

09:52get a little bit more creative in everything that they are doing. So, um, that's the, the thoughts kind

09:58of from the Tucker, uh, side from him, the Dodgers and the blue Jays. What do you guys think?

10:03Have I been unfair in any of my assessments of this? Let me know in the comments and we can chat about it

10:10down there. And while you're at it, share this with some of your baseball fan friends, whether it is

10:14sharing in the misery of Tucker joining with the Dodgers or another free agent that got away for the

10:19blue Jays. Let me, um, let, let, let your baseball friends know that we're thinking about them and we

10:24can keep that conversation going with all of them.

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