{"id":578470,"date":"2026-02-18T01:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/578470\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:56:20","slug":"the-a-rod-lessons-bo-bichette-can-heed-in-third-base-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/578470\/","title":{"rendered":"The A-Rod lessons Bo Bichette can heed in third-base adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Since the moment he agreed to be not only a Met, but more vitally the Mets third baseman, this was the day that Bo Bichette had been, what?<\/p>\n<p>Not approaching with dread, he insists. Anticipation? Curiosity? Eagerness?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose bunts,\u201d Bichette said, \u201care the first thing I thought about when I signed up to go [to] third.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so there he was on the main diamond at Clover Park, a drill beginning at 10:42 a.m. Tuesday that had been on his mind for a while. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/12\/sports\/mets-bo-bichette-getting-used-to-transformation-at-third-base\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learning on the job<\/a>. Foreign territory. New Mets bench coach Kai Correa bellowing a scenario \u2014 \u201cRunner on second, no outs\u201d \u2014 and Bichette creeping into a strange no-man\u2019s-land. From dirt to grass. How hard is this bunted? Do you retreat to third to take a throw for an out? If so, how do you find the bag and see the throw?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Since the moment he agreed to be not only a Met, but more vitally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[1691,5,88,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-578470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-alex-rodriguez","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bo-bichette","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116089152162988633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578470","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=578470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}