Animl Steakhouse and Cocktail Den<\/a> posted a heartfelt letter to the shortstop on Instagram, with the caption, \u201cHere\u2019s an offer we hope you can\u2019t resist.\u201d<\/p>\nThe steakhouse then goes on to offer him free steak for life if he stays with the Jays.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Animl, we believe in commitments that last \u2013 the craft, the care, and the city we call home. In that spirit, we ask you to re-sign with the Toronto Blue Jays \u2013 and consider this our promise:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Steak for life on us. No negotiations. No fine print. Just a standing reservation at our table.\u201d<\/p>\n
The steakhouse ended the letter saying, \u201cStay in Toronto. We\u2019ll handle dinner, you bring home the hardware.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last summer. Bichette told CBC News Toronto that his favourite restaurant is Animl, saying \u201cIt\u2019s really good, I love it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Located at Spadina Ave. and Wellington St., the upscale restaurant specializes in dry-aged steaks.<\/p>\n
Bichette has been with the Jays since they drafted him in the second round of the 2016 MLB Draft. He then made his MLB debut with the team in July 2019, and has been a star player who helped the team make it to the World Series last year. But, as of this month Bichette is a free agent.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, the Jays signed 29-year-old Kazuma Okamoto to a four-year, $60-million contract. However, by signing the third-baseman, many fans are speculating that the Jays could shuffle their roster and potentially fill in Bichette\u2019s shortstop spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Online, people are reacting to the restaurant\u2019s generous offer with applause.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDoing the Lord\u2019s work,\u201d one Instagram user said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBo we need you,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSteaks for life? I identify as Bo Bichette!\u201d another joked.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know Toronto\u2019s Animl Steakhouse offered Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette free steak for life if he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,24257,70],"class_list":["post-507457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-restaurants","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115846487495133070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}