The rich just keep getting richer. On Thursday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers added star outfielder and World Series champion Kyle Tucker to their roster.
According to multiple reports, Tucker will sign a four-year, $240 million contract with the Dodgers. His $60 million salary trails only Shohei Ohtani for the highest-paid player in MLB history. ESPN is reporting that Tucker's deal includes opt-outs after the second and third years.
Tucker, a four-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger winner, finished this past season with a .266 batting average, 22 homers and 73 RBIs. Although he played an integral role for the Chicago Cubs, he was never going to re-sign with them. In fact, the New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays were the teams that tried to prevent him from going to Los Angeles.
Immediately after the Dodgers agreed to terms on a deal with Tucker, baseball fans raced over to the platform formerly known as Twitter and aired out their complaints.
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"Fans should boycott the MLB this season and allow there to be a lockout in 2027," one person said. "The sports is fundamentally unfair and uninteresting to watch with the rich staying rich and the poor voluntarily choosing to lose. Until salary caps & floors are put in nothing will change."
"Boycott MLB," a second person commented. "Literally no one is stopping the Dodgers. This season will be zero fun."
"MLB isn’t even a sport anymore. Boycott until a cap," a fan wrote.
"Just start the MLB lockout now. Teams should boycott playing the Dodgers," another person suggested. "Let them go 162-0 and play zero games."
Will the MLB have a lockout?
The MLB's current labor agreement is set to expire on Dec. 1, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET. It's highly unlikely a new deal gets worked out during the 2026 season, so fans should expect fireworks next winter.
"The greater likelihood, if past is indeed prologue, points toward the league locking out the players Dec. 1, 2026. A lockout would shut down free agency and trades, as it did in 2021, and set an even more important, though informal, deadline: early to mid-March 2027, the drop-dead date for potentially losing regular-season games," ESPN reported.
Tucker's deal with the Dodgers only increases the likelihood of a lockout. After all, there'll be plenty of people campaigning for a salary cap.