Will Bo Bichette be back with the Mets next season? | Baseball Night in NY
On Baseball Night in NY, Chelsea Janes and Jim Duquette discuss Bo Bichette's first season in New York. They also talk about Bichette's future, and if he will return next season for the Mets.
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Chelsea, what have you learned covering Bo Bichette in his first year in New York?
Less, less about, like, the human than I thought.
He's very quiet, very reserved.
But I think one of the things that has really struck me is, is he handled a lot at the beginning of the season.
I mean, he was about as bad as he has ever been in a city with more attention than he's ever had.
And one of the things a lot of people in Toronto told me is, like, this guy didn't love the media responsibilities.
He wasn't rude, but he was like, "I wanna play baseball.
I don't understand where all this is coming from."
So for him to choose New York, number one, was a challenge for him, and then I think he handled the media part of all this very well, not to mention getting back on track baseball-wise.
I think you can look at his numbers and say, oh, they're, you know, they're not finishing the season great.
They're not terrible and, and lately they've been better.
He's also not, you know, a crazy offensive producer as it is.
He got paid a lot to be one, but he isn't.
But I, I just think what I've learned is, A, he, he pulled himself out of a slump in a really tough place to do that.
And B, it's a weird opt-out situation.
I keep asking people, you know, that they think he's gonna stay.
They're not really sure.
Like, there's not that many calls like this that are close- and this one feels closer than I think I expected it to be this time of year.
Yeah.
I, I agree with you.
I think, you know, the hard part for him is over.
He handled it.
Not many people get through the first two months of struggles and then survive it, you know?
And a lot of You've, you've seen a lot of guys over the years, a lot of players that end up, you know, leaving or un- unhappy, or they don't have the ability to get out of it.
I don't, I didn't get the sense through your article and just from talking to people that he wants to leave.
I think he's, he's settled in.
He's obviously, you know, a, a good teammate.
He's had a leadership role, maybe not a overall team leadership.
But with the young players in particular, he seems to have a great relationship with both the young guys, with Benge and Ewing.
So I think there's, I think anyway, and most people I talk to around the sport believe he will stay in, in s- you know, not, I guess opt in is, is the- Yeah real term, and, and stick around.
Also, you have that additional collective bargaining agreement that's gonna be up in the air, too, which would makes free agency a little bit uncertain.
