Sources: Kyle Tucker, Dodgers agree to 4-year, $240M deal - ESPN

LOS ANGELES — In the wake of another championship, which made them the first Major League Baseball team in a quarter century to repeat, the Los Angeles Dodgers mostly downplayed their ability to dominate another offseason. They believed their roster was already good enough, and they vowed to let the market come to them rather than chase stars aggressively.

They got them anyway.

Kyle Tucker, the consensus best player available in free agency, agreed to join the Dodgers on Thursday, sources told ESPN, a little more than a month after star closer Edwin Diaz did the same. Tucker's deal is for four years at $240 million and includes opt-outs after the second and third seasons, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers.

The Dodgers hardly ever reward opt-outs under president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. But they made a similar concession for Japanese starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto two offseasons ago and ultimately did the same for Tucker, a mechanism that helped them beat out the New York Mets and the Toronto Blue Jays for his services.

Tucker, who will turn 29 on Saturday, comes in as the everyday right fielder and joins a star-studded lineup that includes Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, Will Smith and Max Muncy. The addition of Tucker ultimately could push the Dodgers to trade corner outfielder Teoscar Hernandez, but a source familiar with the team's thinking said that is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. The team can easily shift Hernandez from right field to left, with Andy Pages remaining the everyday center fielder and utility man Tommy Edman, coming off ankle surgery, entrenched as the second baseman.

Tucker's deal comes with $30 million deferred, a source told ESPN, confirming