{"id":951417,"date":"2026-10-30T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951417\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:36:08","slug":"report-bo-bichette-exercising-42m-option-to-remain-with-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951417\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bo Bichette exercising $42M option to remain with Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The infielder will exercise his $42 million option to remain with the <a data-team=\"new-york-mets\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/new-york-mets\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Mets<\/a>, The Athletic&#8217;s Will Sammon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7736936\/2026\/10\/29\/bo-bichette-player-option-mets\/?unlocked_article_code=1.MVE.QCvX.7QcRH7lv8M3a&amp;source=emp_shared_article&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette joined the Mets on a three-year, $126 million deal last off-season. In his first year with New York, he slashed .260\/.312\/.390 with a .702 OPS, 18 home runs and 78 RBIs in 160 games.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the poorer offensive seasons of Bichette&#8217;s MLB career. He began very slowly, hitting .210 with a .531 OPS in mid-May, but he picked it up over the last 114 games by batting .281 with a .772 OPS and 16 homers.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette played the first seven years of his career with the Toronto Blue Jays, leading the MLB in hits twice during that time, and in 2025 he tied his career-best batting average of .311.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets are hoping to bounce back in 2027, after missing the post-season for a second consecutive year in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The infielder will exercise his $42 million option to remain with the New York Mets, The Athletic&#8217;s Will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-951417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951417","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=951417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}