{"id":619352,"date":"2026-03-12T00:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/619352\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:43:46","slug":"bo-bichette-isnt-afraid-to-go-against-the-grain-with-vintage-hitting-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/619352\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette isn&#8217;t afraid to go against the grain with vintage hitting approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 In this era of advanced statistics, Bo Bichette is something of a throwback, embracing batting average.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette\u2019s career mark is .294, which is tied for fifth among active players behind only Luis Arraez (.316), Jose Altuve (.303), Freddie Freeman (.300) and Trea Turner (.297).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/10\/sports\/why-bo-bichette-is-key-to-mets-radically-revamped-defense\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new Mets third baseman<\/a>, son of former major leaguer Dante Bichette, said hitting for average was instilled in him in his youth, and he\u2019s never wavered from the pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t enjoy going up to the plate and knowing there are areas in which the pitcher can get me out,\u201d Bichette told The Post this week. \u201cLike any player, I go through stretches where I give them easier outs than normal, but the player I aspire to be is a tough out no matter what and somebody who can handle any type of pitch, any pitcher.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 In this era of advanced statistics, Bo Bichette is something of a throwback, embracing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,88,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-619352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bo-bichette","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116213439655793565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619352","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=619352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}