Spotrac puts his market value at 12 years, $539 million. ESPN's Jeff Passan also recently had Tucker in his rarefied air of players who could sign $500 million contracts. And if the Cubs are the ones making that happen, it's pretty unlikely they'll then turn around and trade for the roughly quarter of a billion dollars left on Devers' deal.

To say there's drama between All-Star slugger Rafael Devers and the Boston Red Sox would be quite the understatement. When the Red Sox signed third baseman Alex Bregman late in the offseason, there were obvious questions about where he would play.