{"id":521245,"date":"2026-01-15T06:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/521245\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:03:11","slug":"phillies-have-momentum-to-a-bo-bichette-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/521245\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Have ‘Momentum’ to a Bo Bichette Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>\u2018 infatuation with top free agent Kyle Tucker is almost certainly going to cost them any chance they had at re-signing Bo Bichette. The longtime Toronto shortstop met with the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday over Zoom. And according to MLB insider Jon Heyman, the two sides really took to each other. Heyman said the meeting \u201cwent really well,\u201d and went so far as to say that there\u2019s \u201cmomentum to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are other teams\u2026 the Dodgers, it\u2019s possible, the Red Sox, maybe. Yankees\u2026 Maybe his old Toronto team. But, it feels like Philly, it feels like there\u2019s some momentum there to get it done and work it out.<\/p>\n

Heyman added that Bichette considers the Phillies a \u201cfirst-class\u201d organization. And we shouldn\u2019t forget that the Blue Jays\u2019 former bench coach Don Mattingly now holds that position with the Phils. And he & Bo were very close. <\/p>\n

To be clear, there are a number of ramifications on the roster that signing Bichette would have for the Phillies. They\u2019d likely have to give up on the idea of re-signing their longtime catcher JT Realmuto, and would probably have to trade third baseman Alec Bohm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some moving parts here, but they\u2019re not unmovable parts. Bohm, at $10.2 million, they could trade him,\u201d said Heyman. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they could go for a lesser catcher, although I don\u2019t think they particularly want to. But they\u2019ve been in a staredown with JT Realmuto for quite a while now. They\u2019ve offered him a three-year deal, but it\u2019s not exactly what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Gelb of The Athletic<\/a> echoed the same sentiments about the burgeoning Bichette & Phillies bromance, citing multiple sources indicating that both sides \u201cemerged with optimism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some big decisions, for Bichette, Tucker, and the Blue Jays, are coming soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays\u2018 infatuation with top free agent Kyle Tucker is almost certainly going to cost them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,88,3537,25,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-521245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bo-bichette","10":"tag-mlb-news","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115897604799503578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521245","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=521245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}