{"id":628727,"date":"2026-03-17T20:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628727\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:31:27","slug":"dante-bichette-tells-the-post-why-son-bo-is-primed-to-excel-with-mets-in-new-york-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628727\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante Bichette tells The Post why son Bo is primed to excel with Mets in New York debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Dante Bichette played 14 seasons as a major league outfielder, but wasn\u2019t about to push baseball on his youngest son.<\/p>\n<p>The initial plan was for Bo Bichette to pursue tennis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou write your own lineup card in tennis,\u201d Dante said in a phone conversation this week. \u201cIt\u2019s like you kind of control the whole thing, and he was really good at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, tennis could serve as excellent cross-training for Bo if he decided to pursue baseball. Fielding a ground ball requires finding a good hop, as does hitting a tennis ball. The serve is analogous to throwing.\u00a0The swing is similar to a baseball swing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Dante Bichette played 14 seasons as a major league outfielder, but wasn\u2019t about to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,88,8057,4,415,61,185,430,428,151,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-628727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-bo-bichette","tag-exclusive","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-spring-training","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116246419434810037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628727","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=628727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}