{"id":649879,"date":"2026-03-29T04:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/649879\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:42:30","slug":"mets-already-have-a-bo-bichette-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/649879\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets already have a Bo Bichette problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> have some figuring out to do.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Bichette the third baseman might be a problem.<\/p>\n<p>It was always going to be at least a little bit of a risk. The life-long shortstop was known to be a candidate to change positions when he hit free agency from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It sounded like many teams viewed him as a second baseman. But for the New York Mets, who secured his signature, he had to play third base since Marcus Semien had second already.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not going well.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette&#8217;s very first throw of the season pulled Jorge Polanco about five feet toward home plate, but with a slow runner, a tag could still be made.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Bichette had a throw similar that didn&#8217;t get the out this time:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bo Bichette showing off that arm \ud83d\udc40 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dEBUTnI57J\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dEBUTnI57J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ktb.kendrick2 (@ktbkendrick2) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ktbkendrick2\/status\/2037998319218065583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/news\/yankees-giancarlo-stanton-closes-hall-fame-level-mlb-history\/fdb4afb7dfb562d23fe92b03\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giancarlo Stanton approaching Hall of Fame milestone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while most Mets fans know this, it&#8217;s still notable: Bichette hadn&#8217;t played a single inning of third base in his major league career before this.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t a great shortstop defensively, but he was a shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last season, when Bichette came back from injury, the Blue Jays made him a second baseman.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing concrete to suggest that Bichette could get the job done at third base. And right now, his arm isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets are going to have to figure this out, whether it means moving guys around or simply helping Bichette improve in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>This team has championship aspirations, and its third baseman can&#8217;t fire wide every time he throws.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets have some figuring out to do. Bo Bichette the third baseman might be a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-649879","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-mets","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116310635099881830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649879","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=649879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}