Chicago Cubs: Alex Bregman is the Bizarro Kyle Tucker

The Chicago Cubs are definitely not having Kyle Tucker non-buyer’s remorse.

After a rough and disappointing end to his 2025 season with the Cubs, the team seemed to make virtually no effort in re-signing the right fielder. They appeared to be just fine with letting the star walk into the open arms of the moneybag Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Before Tucker even signed his crazy “Dodger-y” 4-year, $240 million contract, the Cubs had already unofficially moved on from the 4-time All-Star by signing three-time All-Star third baseman Alex Bregman to a 5-year, $175 million contract.

Chicago has not looked back at that decision with regret.

Bregman could actually be seen as the Bizarro Kyle Tucker at this point.

Bizarro Kyle Tucker

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For those unfamiliar with the Superman canon, “Bizarro Superman” is a Superman villain who is just as gifted as the Man of Steel but possesses all the opposite attributes—a villain, not a hero; ice vision instead of heat vision; speaking in opposites; etc. He even has a backward “S” on the front of his costume.

As opposed to Tucker last year with the Cubs, Bregman has come alive in this second half of the season. He’s thrived under the pressure of a push towards the playoffs whereas, last season, Tucker wilted under that same pressure.

Since July 12, Bregman has been one of the hottest hitters in baseball. He’s hit .319 with 10 home runs and 29 RBIs through 33 games after a slow start to the season that saw him bottom out with a .235 average as recently as July 10.

Tucker, meanwhile, is hitting .178 through that same period of time, with just 4 home runs and 8 RBIs. Overall, Tucker has also played a miserable right field—spotlighted by two recent fielding miscues—as Bregman continues to be an ace with the glove at third.

“My message to him is you’re not alone,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts recently said on MLB Network Radio. “He’s probably never struggled like this in his life.”

Well, Roberts clearly didn’t catch Tucker’s 2025 run with the Cubs, where he flatlined entirely from July 1 onward and finished the season with a whimper as an injury-hobbled DH.

It was this beyond-poor showing that brought boos from the usually mega-loyal Wrigley Field faithful late in the season and killed off any debate among the fandom about whether Chicago should bring him back.

Despite a hot start to the 2025 season, where he served as a linchpin for a powerful Cubs lineup, Tucker’s poor performance and seeming indifference to being part of the Cubs family had soured fans entirely on him.

Bregman over Tucker

In signing Bregman, Chicago got a potential impact bat and an elite defender, but they also got the intangibles Tucker sorely lacked. They got a clubhouse leader and a generous team player always willing to extend a hand to help a teammate. Tucker’s reputation is that of a loner and a brooder who doesn’t add drama to a clubhouse, but also doesn’t add much of anything else.

“The one thing he’s brought so much is being able to help guys navigate through things,” shortstop Dansby Swanson said of Bregman, “whether it’s other guys and their at-bats, pitchers and their approach to getting other teams out. He’s best when he’s got his hands in everything.

“Just his knowledge and his perspective on the game itself has really been beneficial for our group. I’ve been able to learn from him, and we’ve all been better for it.”

All in all, even if the two stars were producing similar numbers, the Cubs would remain happy about their Bregman-over-Tucker decision. As things are currently turning out, though, they should be ecstatic.

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