Kyle Tucker

By hitting his 30th home run on October 3, Tucker became the third Astro to have hit 30 home runs hit in one season before turning age 25.

In September and October, he batted .346 with eight home runs, 20 runs scored, 19 RBIs, a .438 on-base percentage, and a .692 slugging percentage for a 1.130 OPS.

He was awarded the AL Player of the Month for September, his first career monthly award.

In his first full, unshortened, major league season, Tucker reached career-highs in nearly every offensive category, batting .294/.359./.557/.917, with 37 doubles, 30 home runs, 92 RBIs, 14 stolen bases, 282 total bases, and 147 OPS+ in 140 games played.

He ranked ninth in the AL in batting, third in slugging percentage and OPS, fifth in doubles and OPS+, and tenth in Wins Above Replacement (5.7 WAR, per Baseball-Reference).

He was named as a Gold Glove finalist in right field with +11 Defensive Runs Saved (DRS), tied with Joey Gallo and Aaron Judge for second place behind Adolis García.

Tucker was announced as a finalist for the Silver Slugger Award for outfielders on October 25, 2021; the three outfielder winners were Teoscar Hernández, Judge and Cedric Mullins Tucker received his first selection as a Sporting News AL All-Star at outfield, and to the All-MLB Second Team.

In Game 4 of the 2021 American League Division Series (ALDS) against the Chicago White Sox on October 12, Tucker stole second and third base in the fourth inning to become the first Astro to steal two bases in the same inning of a postseason game.

He slashed .279/.333/.541 in 61 postseason at bats, stole five bases, hit four home runs, and led both leagues in postseason runs batted in (RBI) with fifteen.

An early-season slump for Tucker in 2022 included a 4-for-46 span to start the season.

Kyle Daniel Tucker (born January 17, 1997) is an American professional baseball right fielder for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).

The Astros selected Tucker with the fifth pick in the first round of the 2015 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2018 and his nickname is king tuck.

A native of Tampa, Florida, Tucker won Florida's Gatorade Player of the Year Award while attending and playing for Henry B. Plant High School.

In 2021, he was selected for the All-MLB Team for the first time.

The following year, he won each of his first World Series championship, MLB All-Star selection and Gold Glove Award.

For his career, he has accumulated a 12.9 baseball-reference WAR and 129 OPS+

Tucker attended Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, Florida, and played for their baseball team.

He appeared in Perfect Game's All American Classic.

Tucker was named Florida's Gatorade Player of the Year in 2015.

Projected to be a first round pick in the 2015 MLB draft, the Houston Astros selected Tucker fifth overall.

He officially signed on June 15.

Tucker played for the Greeneville Astros of the Rookie-level Appalachian League.

He began the 2016 season with the Quad Cities River Bandits of the Class A Midwest League, and received a midseason promotion to the Lancaster JetHawks of the Class A-Advanced California League.

Tucker hit .285/.360/.438 with 32 stolen bases, nine home runs, and 69 runs batted in (RBIs) in 2016.

Tucker began the 2017 season with the Buies Creek Astros of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League, and was promoted to the Corpus Christi Hooks of the Class AA Texas League in May.

He appeared in the 2017 All-Star Futures Game.

He finished the season batting a combined .274/.346/.528 with 25 home runs and 90 RBIs between Buies Creek and Corpus Christi.

After the season, the Astros assigned Tucker to the Mesa Solar Sox of the Arizona Fall League.

Tucker began the 2018 season with the Fresno Grizzlies of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League.

After he batted .306 in 80 games, the Astros promoted him to the major leagues on July 7.

Tucker made his major league debut on July 7, 2018, versus the Chicago White Sox.

He collected his first major league hit and RBI that day.

He batted .141/.236/.203 in 72 plate appearances for the Astros in 2018.

Tucker spent the 2019 minor league season with the Round Rock Express, hitting .266/.350/.555/.905 with 34 home runs, 97 RBIs, and 30 stolen bases.

Tucker was promoted to the Astros on September 2, 2019.

In 2019 with the Astros, he batted .269/.319/.537 with four home runs and 11 RBIs in 67 at bats, while stealing five bases without being caught.

In 2020, playing in 58 of the abbreviated sixty game season, Tucker batted .268/.325/.512 with six triples (leading the American League), nine home runs, and 42 RBIs in 209 at bats, and stole eight bases while being caught just once.

He also placed sixth in the league in RBI, sixth in extra-base hits (27), and seventh in stolen bases.

He played in 13 playoff games, batting .306/.327/.367 before a season-ending loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Championship Series (ALCS).

Tucker authored a breakout season in 2021: from May 1 through the end of the season, he batted .320 and led the AL in on-base percentage, slugging and OPS.