{"id":784036,"date":"2026-08-20T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/784036\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:00:15","slug":"bo-bichettes-turnaround-isnt-likely-to-change-his-mets-opt-out-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/784036\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette&#8217;s turnaround isn&#8217;t likely to change his Mets opt-out decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chances for Bo Bichette to opt out with $84 million and another opt-out opportunity are zero, one rival exec opines. And, barring an enormous finish, that seems to be conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/09\/sports\/bo-bichette-leads-revived-mets-offense-with-five-hit-effort\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bichette is playing like himself<\/a> over the past three months and is transitioning nicely to 3B, but it makes little sense for the fourth-highest paid player in MLB (tied with Zack Wheeler, trailing Kyle Tucker, Juan Soto and Cody Bellinger) to hit an uncertain market with a 96 OPS+.<\/p>\n<p>To be safe, I\u2019d put the opt-out possibility at 2 percent. (Hey, the season isn\u2019t over yet.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not all bad for the Mets. Their recent run (24-23 under interim manager Andy Green) has revealed possibilities. Sean Manaea has rediscovered how to pitch effectively, Zac Thornton looks like a potential back-end starter, and Kodai Senga might be a miracle find as closer (4-for-4 so far). Plus, Green is doing a creditable job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chances for Bo Bichette to opt out with $84 million and another opt-out opportunity are zero, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,88,101,4,2046,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428],"class_list":["post-784036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-bo-bichette","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117130089166040729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784036","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=784036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}