Kyle Tucker's Dodgers contract: Final blow for labor peace?
Jeff Passan
created: Feb. 14, 2026, 3:44 p.m. | updated: Feb. 15, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
Their franchise valuations aren't growing as quickly as their billionaire peers' in other sports, and they blame the system that governs Major League Baseball.
Its presence, owners say, immediately would juice franchise values, with the labor cost essentially fixed and no more chasing Dodgers teams spending $500 million annually on players.
They like the World Baseball Classic.
But all that felt moot when the Dodgers signed Kyle Tucker to the deal that gobsmacked the baseball universe.
And that, more than decades of anti-cap hostility, is where such a system loses baseball players' interest.
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