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There are so many ways to sum up Bo Bichette‘s struggles since leaving the Toronto Blue Jays for the New York Mets.
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You can even use Andres Gimenez to do the trick.
Gimenez is still with the Blue Jays, starting at shortstop now that Bichette is out of the way.
The lefty-hitting Gimenez has never had a great bat, and he’s not at his peak level of hitting at the moment, either.
Despite that, this post on X is fully true:
Bichette has not done any sort of damage whatsoever for the Mets.
He’s batting .225, which is actually a tad bit of a hot streak to get up to that number.
He’s got five home runs in 227 at bats.
Bichette actually has a negative-0.5 Wins Above Replacement in Baseball Reference’s measurement.
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It doesn’t make sense that the 28-year old Bichette has regressed to what is currently a .591 OPS, but somehow that’s where he finds himself.
There’s obviously no way to know how he would’ve performed if he stayed with the Blue Jays. Maybe he’d be raking.
But something is off for Bichette right now, and it hasn’t turned itself around about two months into the season. It’s hard to know if the rest of this Mets season will get any better for the $126 million signing.
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