{"id":295510,"date":"2025-04-03T20:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/cubs-slugger-kyle-tucker-continues-to-impress-new-teammates\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:28:32","slug":"cubs-slugger-kyle-tucker-continues-to-impress-new-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/cubs-slugger-kyle-tucker-continues-to-impress-new-teammates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs slugger Kyle Tucker continues to impress new teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p> When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/chicago_cubs\/6\" class=\"yard_link\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> acquired outfielder Kyle Tucker via trade in December, they knew they were getting a difference-maker.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Tucker, a three-time All-Star and World Series champion, was widely regarded as one of the league&#8217;s best power hitters during his stint in Houston. Since 2022, his 82 home runs are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/mlb\/ask\/most-home-runs-by-a-lefty-from-2022-to-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eighth-most by a left-handed batter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far in his debut season with Chicago, Tucker has lived up to his reputation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since starting 2-for-16 in his first four games with the Cubs, Tucker has been on an absolute tear, going 10-for-21. Impressively, from March 29 to April 1, Tucker homered in a career-high four consecutive games.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/swinging_for_the_fences_cubs_slugger_kyle_tucker_continues_to_impress_new_teammates\/s1_13132_41998663\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Chicago Cubs acquired outfielder Kyle Tucker via trade in December, they knew they were getting a difference-maker.\u00a0 Tucker, a three-time All-Star and World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}