Something is wrong with Dodgers' Kyle Tucker
It's still a little early, but not that early.
Something is wrong with Dodgers' Kyle Tucker originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The MLB season isn't quite a month old, but it's getting to the point when some numbers start to have some validity and solidity to them.
Kyle Tucker's strikeout rate with the Los Angeles Dodgers , for example, has begun to be a storyline. This is what Dodgers beat writer Blake Harris wrote on X on Tuesday night: "3 more strikeouts today, giving him a 23. 2 K% on the season Entering this year, Kyle Tucker hadn't posted a strikeout rate above 16% since the 2020 shortened season His strikeout rate is up nearly 10% from last year.
" To be clear, he's saying that Tucker's strikeout rate is up 10 percentage points. That's a big year-to-year increase. It's certainly not what the Dodgers would've wanted to see from their massive offseason signing.
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