With about a month to go until Spring Training, could the high end of the free-agent market be on the verge of heating up? The Cubs agreed to a deal with third baseman Alex Bregman on Saturday, taking one of the top available hitters off the board.

Kyle Tucker met with the Mets and the talks reportedly went well. New York is pushing hard as free agency heats up and competition builds.

Outfielder Kyle Tucker is our top-ranked free agent of the offseason, and it appears his market is beginning to crystallize. The reigning-champion Dodgers, reigning AL-champion Blue Jays, and Mets are the three primary pursuers of Tucker right now and have all met with Tucker either remotely or in person, Jim Duquette reports.

"The Mets are seen as one of three top contenders for Kyle Tucker and will be 'opportunistic,' if they can match up," Heyman wrote. "What might make things tough: The other two top contenders, as SNY’s Jim Duquette said, are the attractive World Series combatants, the Jays and Dodgers."

The New York Mets recently met with free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker and are very much interested in signing him. […]

The Toronto Blue Jays have been here, and it feels like Deja vu. Remember when the Blue Jays waited on a guy named Shohei Ohtani and how that has backfired massively.

After seemingly losing out on both Cody Bellinger and Bo Bichette, the New York Yankees are between a rock and a hard place. Kyle Tucker has long been one of th

With spring training approaching, the Blue Jays’ busy offseason may not be over as questions around Kyle Tucker and Bo Bichette linger.