signed the 28-year-old to a three-year, $126 million contract<\/a> in January for several reasons, one of the biggest being his career .326 batting average with runners in scoring position. Despite his current average of .129, he does have four RBI, including one Thursday night that came via a double to left field off left-hander Robbie Ray. The approach, the swing, the process \u2014 everything is all there. The results haven\u2019t come yet, but with the at-bats the Mets are seeing, the club feels as though it\u2019s only a matter of time. Whether he wants to consider luck as a factor or not, his .174 BaBIP does show he\u2019s been pretty unlucky so far.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve liked my at-bats for the last four games,\u201d Bichette said. \u201cBut it\u2019s baseball. You can\u2019t control everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bichette\u2019s comments after the first home series show how much he cares about producing for the Mets and for the fans who cheer for them. After all, he once shouldered an entire country\u2019s baseball hopes. He understands that New York is different, but also that in this era of baseball with so much information available to casual fans, diehard fans, the media, and everything in between, every stat can be viewed through whatever lens they please.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think people are looking at everything every day, throughout the whole season,\u201d he said. \u201cSome years you get off to a good start, some years you don\u2019t. That\u2019s just part of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bichette is under a microscope at the moment, being on a new team and playing a new position. As he said, he can\u2019t control everything, but he can control the work he puts into turning around his numbers. His work ethic is another reason the Mets signed him to that contract, and he expects himself to make good on it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings go up and down, not that you\u2019re OK with it, but you figure out a way to get better,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s baseball, you come back tomorrow and do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 If there\u2019s one thing Bo Bichette isn\u2019t going to do, it\u2019s make excuses. Thursday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,88,1443,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-661793","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-carlos-mendoza","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116343527490265492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661793","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=661793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}