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00:00Well, I think one of the reasons people feel that way, Kyle Tucker off to the kind of start
00:04everybody in Chicago hoped he would be.
00:07Five home runs already, 15 runs batted in, he is one of the best players in the National
00:11League or off to one of the hottest starts.
00:14So John, I ask you this, in light of Vlad Guerrero signing for $500 million in 14 years
00:19in Toronto, is that the blueprint for something that the Cubs should look at if they are going
00:25to extend Kyle Tucker and keep him in Chicago?
00:30I will get to the contract in a second.
00:31First, I will say this is lesson number 10,000 on why spring training means nothing.
00:37He was 0 for 20 when he got to the Cubs and he did a home run in that game.
00:42Meanwhile, Cam Smith, the key guy in the trade going the other way, never made outs in spring
00:50training and he's now 2 for 18.
00:52So there you go for spring training.
00:55It was a great deal as we suspected by the Cubs, I do believe, and he is a great player.
01:02And I was in the lobby right after Soto signed for $765 million and there was talk, wow,
01:08Kyle Tucker may not get $765 million, but look at the war and all that and he's pretty
01:14comparable to Soto.
01:17You know, I do think he is a better comp for Soto than Vlad is as a right fielder.
01:23The war is fairly similar.
01:24I will say this, Soto has more cachet, Soto has championship, he's been in two World Series,
01:33he's done it in New York, which we count, since I'm in New York, we still count that
01:38as a plus.
01:39So, you know, I think Soto is going to keep the record.
01:42I do think Kyle Tucker is a better player.
01:45I love Vlad Guerrero, he's great, he's a superstar.
01:48I think Tucker is better than Vlad Guerrero, so there you have it.
01:54And Vlad signed back with his old team, could he have gotten more?
01:59I'm not sure that he could have, I think he did great, but he has a year to go and Tucker
02:04will be a free agent, so, you know, I think we're looking at, I'm sure, from their perspective,
02:10$500 million as the absolute baseline, although I will say Guerrero has more cachet than Tucker.