{"id":179184,"date":"2025-09-30T03:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179184\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:34:06","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-ss-bo-bichette-hopeful-for-alds-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179184\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays SS Bo Bichette hopeful for ALDS return"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. — Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> shortstop Bo Bichette<\/a>, sidelined since Sept. 7 with a sprained left knee, is hopeful he can return when his club opens its American League Division Series next week.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays, the AL’s top seed, have a bye and are awaiting their ALDS opponent.<\/p>\n

“It helps,” Bichette told MLB.com, regarding Toronto’s break. “I will do everything I can in the next four or five days to see what we can do.”<\/p>\n

A second opinion on the injury earlier this month in Dallas matched his original diagnosis: a sprained knee, no structural damage and no surgery required. And so his regular season ended with a .311 batting average to go along with 18 home runs and 94 RBIs.<\/p>\n

“I’m feeling better. Every day, I’m feeling better,” Bichette said. “I don’t know. I don’t have a date, but I will be doing everything that I possibly can to get back.”<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Bichette, a two-time All-Star, was injured Sept. 6 on a play at home plate against the New York Yankees<\/a> and landed on the 10-day injured list the following day.<\/p>\n

“This is exactly what we needed, so I hope he continues to progress and I hope that he gets a chance to contribute to this,” Toronto manager John Schneider told MLB.com, with regard to his team’s respite. “His career has been as a Toronto Blue Jay. He’s been instrumental to what we’ve been doing here the last six years, so I hope he can progress well enough to be right in the middle of what we’re doing.”<\/p>\n

Bichette, who can become a free agent after the World Series this year, is the son of former major league slugger Dante Bichette.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. — Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette, sidelined since Sept. 7 with a sprained left knee,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-179184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}