{"id":266099,"date":"2025-11-06T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266099\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:39:12","slug":"blue-jays-extend-qualifying-offer-to-star-infielder-bo-bichette-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266099\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays extend qualifying offer to star infielder Bo Bichette | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/imageRedirect\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; Bo Bichette swings for a three run home run off Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; Shohei Ohtani during the third inning in Game 7 of baseball&#8217;s World Series, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, in Toronto. (AP Photo\/Ashley Landis)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tNov 6, 2025 | 10:09 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Blue Jays have extended a qualifying offer to star infielder Bo Bichette, the Major League Baseball club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette has until Nov. 18 to accept the offer.<\/p>\n<p>By extending the qualifying offer, the Blue Jays will get a draft pick in compensation if Bichette signs elsewhere in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette is coming off a stellar 2025 campaign that saw him bat .311 and finish tied for second in the majors with 181 hits despite missing the final three weeks of the regular season with a knee sprain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; Bo Bichette swings for a three run home run off Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; Shohei Ohtani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,462,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-266099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-mlb","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266099","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=266099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}