Report: Tucker rejected Jays' 10-year, $350M offer to join Dodgers

The Toronto Blue Jays emerged as the high bidders for Kyle Tucker, but it wasn't enough to lure him north of the border.

Toronto's final offer to Tucker was for $350 million over 10 years, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports. It's unclear if the proposal contained any deferrals.

The Blue Jays' reported bid topped the Los Angeles Dodgers' winning offer by $110 million in total value. Had Tucker signed in Toronto, it would've marked the seventh-richest deal in MLB history.

The Blue Jays were reportedly the only team to offer Tucker the long-term deal he was thought to be seeking, as the Dodgers and New York Mets tabled four-year deals with high average annual values.

Tucker ultimately signed with the two-time defending champions on a reported four-year, $240-million contract featuring $30 million in deferrals and opt-outs after the 2027 and '28 seasons. The Dodgers apparently structured the deal to include a $64-million signing bonus, with $54 million paid up front.

Tucker joins his new teammate Shohei Ohtani as the only players to have contracts with average annual values above $60 million. Although the deferrals reduce its present-day AAV to $57.1 million, that mark is still well above the former record of $51 million set by Juan Soto last offseason.

New York reportedly offered Tucker $220 million, with no deferrals and a $75-million signing bonus. After he spurned that proposal, the Mets pivoted and apparently signed longtime Blue Jays star Bo Bichette to a three-year, $126-million deal.

For the Blue Jays, losing Tucker to the Dodgers is the latest blow in what seems to be turning into a heated rivalry. Ohtani's high-profile free-agency saga ended with him choosing Los Angeles over Toronto in the winter of 2023. Last offseason, the Dodgers outbid the Blue Jays to land prized Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki. All the off-field drama boiled over this past October when L.A. and Toronto met in a dramatic seven-game World Series that ended with the Dodgers narrowly winning a second straight title.

Tucker will still take the field at Rogers Centre in 2026, when the Dodgers visit Toronto for a World Series rematch from April 6-8. L.A. will travel to Citi Field to face the Mets in a three-game series beginning July 24.