{"id":386803,"date":"2026-01-04T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/386803\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:43:08","slug":"report-phillies-among-big-market-teams-interested-in-bichette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/386803\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Phillies among big-market teams interested in Bichette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies have entered the chase for Bo Bichette, competing with several big-market teams, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2007591566236627201\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Post&#8217;s Jon Heyman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia reportedly joins the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Toronto Blue Jays as potential suitors for the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 MORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/news\/3430533\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s the best fit for Bichette?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bichette is one of the top players available on the open market after seven seasons in Toronto, where he slashed .294\/.337\/.469 and led the AL in hits twice.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies already employ an elite shortstop in Trea Turner, but Bichette would be an upgrade at second base over Bryson Stott. Bichette has apparently informed interested teams that he&#8217;s willing to move to second and looked comfortable at the keystone during his brief postseason appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette has said he&#8217;d like to return to the Blue Jays. However, Toronto might not have room for him on the roster after reportedly <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3444494\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/news\/3444494\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreeing<\/a> to a four-year, $60-million deal with Japanese infielder Kazuma Okamoto on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Phillies have entered the chase for Bo Bichette, competing with several big-market teams, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-386803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386803","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=386803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}