Tucker played nearly a full season in 2025 after missing about half of 2024 due to injury, but he didn’t have the kind of full-season breakout year that the Cubs were hoping to get when they traded three players for him last offseason. He actually hit fewer homers this year (22) than he did in his abbreviated 2024 season (23), and all of his Statcast power indicators were down and his ISO was the lowest of his career. He played with a hairline fracture in his right hand for over half of the season, however, and that almost certainly explains his power outage. He suffered the injury on June 1, when he was slugging .524, returned three days later and slugged just .415 the rest of the season. That’s a good reason to bet on a bounceback from him in 2026, as is the fact that he continued to improve his pitch selection, matching the lowest chase rate of his career while swinging more at pitches in the zone.
