Details of Toronto Blue Jays 10-year contract offer to Kyle Tucker announced

When the Los Angeles Dodgers want a free agent, they pretty much get him.

Nobody knows this more than Blue Jays fans, so when Kyle Tucker signed a four-year $240 million deal with LA, we were surprised, but not really.

Multiple reports suggested that Tucker's only true long-term offer on the table came from the Blue Jays.

According to a report from the New York Post's Jon Heyman, that the terms of Toronto's offer were $350MM over ten years.

The average annual value of Tucker's contract with the Dodgers ($60M) is second in MLB only to Shohei Ohtani's.

In terms of pure dollars, the $350MM would've tied for the seventh-priciest deal in baseball history, and only 15 contracts have ever topped a $35MM average annual value.

It would've been the largest free agent deal in Blue Jays history but not their largest contract altogether, as Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s 14-year, $500MM extension from last spring takes that title.

The Blue Jays have gone bigger in the past, however, as they made Shohei Ohtani an offer similar to the heavily-deferred ten-year, $700MM pact that the superstar took from the Dodgers during the 2023-24 offseason.

This now marks the fourth time in three offseasons that the Blue Jays have made a huge push for a player who eventually signed with the Dodgers, between Tucker, Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki.

Given how the latter three played major roles in Los Angeles' World Series triumph over Toronto last fall, missing out on Tucker as well adds some sting to the Blue Jays' unsuccessful pursuit.

It also didn't help that longtime shortstop Bo Bichette then signed with the Mets on a three-year, $126MM deal, leaving Toronto coming up short on seemingly their top two position-player targets of the offseason.

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