There’s no way they will outbid everyone else for Tucker. They’ve never even spent $200 million on a player before, let alone $500-600 million. Ricketts has said he just wants to spend enough to get into the playoffs like some of the medium budget teams over the last few years.
Little has been healthy, they just don’t want him on the team right now. They have enough lefties. Hodge is about to come back, but he got rocked for 7 runs in 0.1 innings in Nashville a few days ago. Pearson has 1 option left.