Former Houston outfielder and three-time All-Star Kyle Tucker posed for a photograph at a training facility in an unknown location Tuesday, standing next to a player Houston hopes will emerge as its next star at the hot corner.

While adding a top-of-the-market run-producer in Kyle Tucker, the Cubs have also cut their payroll by $60 million. They dropped 12 veterans who produced only 2.3 fWAR.

The Chicago Cubs, as most everyone probably knows by now, failed to come to an agreement with the newly acquired Kyle Tucker and his people on a 2025 salary, thereby forcing an arbitration hearing.

The Cubs and newly acquired OF Kyle Tucker could not come to an agreement on a salary for 2025, per a source. The Cubs filed at $15 mil. Tucker's camp at $17.5 mil. The Cubs acquired Tucker on Dec. 13 in one of the biggest trades of the MLB offseason so far.

Baseball insider Keith Law discusses how the Cubs not coming to terms on a 2025 salary with recently acquired OF Kyle Tucker will impact his future with the team.