The Los Angeles Dodgers shocked the baseball world in January 2026, not by just signing Kyle Tucker, but by giving him a mammoth four-year contract worth $240 million.
It had been a whirlwind offseason for the former Chicago Cubs right fielder, having announced just after the World Series that he and his wife, Samantha Tucker, were expecting their first baby together.
Samatha will now accompany Kyle to a third Big League city after he first broke in with the Houston Astros in 2018.
The two have been together since before he ever saw a pitch in the Majors. After first meeting at Plant High School in Tampa, Florida, the pair graduated in 2015 and began dating two years later, while Tucker was in Houston’s minor league system and Samantha was a student at Florida State University.
They’ve been inseparable ever since, with Samantha joining Kyle everywhere from hockey games to vacations and on the All-Star red carpet. Keep scrolling for their full relationship timeline.
2015
Kyle and Samantha graduated from Plant High School in Tampa, Florida, where Kyle set a school record with 31 career home runs and was named Florida’s Gatorade Player of the Year.
January 2017
A year-and-a-half after graduating high school, Kyle and Samantha began dating. They went Instagram official on January 30 when Samantha posted a photo of them together, calling him her “first mate.”
July 2018
Kyle made his Major League debut on July 7, 2018 in a home game against the Chicago White Sox, going 1-4 with an RBI. Samantha was there for his first homestand, sharing a photo on the field with him a few weeks later.
“Shoutout to my new favorite Astros player #debut,” she wrote in the caption.
January 2021
The couple celebrated their four-year anniversary on New Year’s Day, 2021, sharing a photo via Instagram that Samantha captioned “4 years later…”
Kyle and Samantha were wearing matching all-black outfits, smiling as they stood on a staircase.
December 2022
Kyle and Samantha announced their engagement the day before Christmas Eve, 2022, in a joint Instagram post. The first photo shows Kyle on one knee, popping the question on a dock while Samantha held an umbrella to shield the two from the pouring rain.
“Soooo… this happened!” they captioned the carousel.
January 2024
The pair tied the knot at Pelican Golf Club in Florida, just over nine years to the day that they began dating.
“Here’s to forever 🤍,” they wrote alongside a carousel of photos from the big day, posted via Instagram.
November 2025
Kyle and Samantha announced that they were expecting their first child. They posted a photo of a baseball jersey onesie with “Little All-Star” written across it. Other slides showed Samantha’s sonogram and an already visible baby bump.
“Lifetime contract coming soon 💙,” they captioned the photos.
The comments were, naturally, filled with congratulations from MLB players and wives, including Myles Straw of the Toronto Blue Jays, who hoped to recruit Kyle north of the border.
“Let’s go!!!!” Straw wrote. “Now come to the Jays. I can help babysit.”
