{"id":502049,"date":"2026-01-08T19:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:49:22","slug":"opportunistic-mets-in-hunt-for-kyle-tucker-in-potential-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502049\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Opportunistic&#8217; Mets in hunt for Kyle Tucker in potential blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are seen as one of three top contenders for Kyle Tucker and will be \u201copportunistic,\u201d if they can match up.<\/p>\n<p>What might make things tough: The other two top contenders, as SNY\u2019s Jim Duquette said, are the attractive World Series combatants, the Jays and Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>The Jays, whose spring training complex is in Dunedin, are driving distance from Tucker\u2019s Tampa home, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/sports\/blue-jays-ramping-up-kyle-tucker-pursuit-as-high-priced-offseason-continues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also may be likelier to go long with Tucker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers are in their usual spot, \u201caround the backboard,\u201d waiting for a rebound, as they were with Edwin Diaz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets are seen as one of three top contenders for Kyle Tucker and will be \u201copportunistic,\u201d if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,62486,5605,1266,71333,179519,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,1306,62,2632,2225,88558,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-502049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-david-stearns","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-mlb-hot-stove","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-steve-cohen","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115861216605762415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}