{"id":267340,"date":"2025-11-07T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267340\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:58:12","slug":"blue-jays-extend-qualifying-offer-to-bo-bichette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267340\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays extend qualifying offer to Bo Bichette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0November 06, 2025 at 6:24PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0November 06, 2025 at 4:19PM EST<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays General Manager Ross Atkins speaks to reporters while the team heads into the offseason after their World Series run. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Bichette has until Nov. 18 to accept the offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ROSTER MOVES: <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 INF Bo Bichette extended a Qualifying Offer for 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 RHPs Angel Bastardo, Bowden Francis, Yimi Garc\u00eda and Nick Sandlin reinstated from 60-day IL <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 C Brandon Valenzuela selected to Major League roster <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 RHPs Ryan Burr and Dillon Tate cleared waivers\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VXiwYfyQN6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VXiwYfyQN6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays\/status\/1986490047135142022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Normally a shortstop, Bichette returned to play second base for Toronto in the World Series and hit a go-ahead three-run homer in Game 7 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The defending-champion Dodgers would come back to defeat the Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0November 06, 2025 at 6:24PM EST Published:\u00a0November 06, 2025 at 4:19PM EST Blue Jays General Manager Ross Atkins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,82,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-267340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267340","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=267340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}