{"id":680160,"date":"2026-04-21T04:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680160\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:30:48","slug":"the-added-clutter-that-may-be-behind-to-bo-bichettes-slow-mets-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680160\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;added clutter&#8217; that may be behind to Bo Bichette&#8217;s slow Mets start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the scouts who were curious \u2014 and some<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/20\/sports\/mlb-scouts-paint-deary-picture-with-mets-in-need-of-turnaround\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> were quite skeptical<\/a> \u2014 about the new-look Mets, there was one aspect of the rebuild that seemed pretty foolproof: Bo Bichette was going to hit.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe his play at third base wouldn\u2019t be stellar, but the former shortstop was never known for his glove when he played for the Blue Jays, so why should that be the case with the Mets when he was at third?<\/p>\n<p>What was unexpected was the lack of offense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure how he\u2019d do at third and the only reason I was worried about that was because [Francisco] Lindor is slipping at short and that could mean a shaky left side of the infield,\u2019\u2019 one National League scout said. \u201cWhat wasn\u2019t a concern was the fact that [Bichette] was gonna hit. And he isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the scouts who were curious \u2014 and some were quite skeptical \u2014 about the new-look Mets, there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,88,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-680160","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-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680160","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=680160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}