{"id":411494,"date":"2026-01-16T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:53:07","slug":"phillies-contract-offer-to-bo-bichette-revealed-after-star-spurns-club-for-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411494\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies&#8217; Contract Offer to Bo Bichette Revealed After Star Spurns Club for Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5q\">Two-time All-Star infielder Bo Bichette agreed to a three-year deal with the New York Mets on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/mets-in-agreement-with-all-star-shortstop-bo-bichette-on-three-year-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a report <\/a>from Will Sammon and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">The deal with Bichette will be worth $126 million over the three seasons, and includes opt-outs after years one and two. Bichette can enter free agency once again in either of the next two winters and will receive a $5 million opt-out bonus if he does.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5w\">Before Bichette landed in New York, the Phillies front office went to bed on Thursday night believing they had a strong chance of landing the 27-year-old themselves. Philadelphia offered a seven-year, $200 million contract on Thursday night, before the Mets swooped in and offered a higher AAV per year, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BNightengale\/status\/2012213977313616284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6792079\/2026\/01\/16\/bo-bichette-mlb-free-agency-signing-new-york-mets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic<\/a> also reported the Phillies met with Bichette this week and left with optimism they were going to be able to sign the infielder before he chose the Mets.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">Alas, Bichette is heading to the Big Apple, leaving the Phillies to figure out next steps. Philadelphia reportedly agreed to re-sign catcher J.T. Realmuto to a new three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Star infielder Bo Bichette agreed to a three-year deal with the New York Mets on Friday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-411494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}