Bo Bichette has reportedly signed with the New York Mets
And Kyle Tucker is going to the Dodgers. We need a minute
Our long national Bo Bichette watch is over, and it hasn’t ended the way we hoped.
Bichette appears to have not been sufficiently dazzled by an offer of all-he-can-eat steak from King West steakhouse Animl—or by the extremely normal gesture of free Viagra from PETA—and has reportedly signed a three-year, $126-million deal with the New York Mets instead of re-signing with the Toronto Blue Jays, according to multiple outlets.
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As recently as minutes ago, we were optimistic that Bichette would stay with the Jays following reports that four-time All-Star and World Series champion Kyle Tucker has taken a four-year, $240-million (US) deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers—the team that crushed our dreams of winning the World Series for the first time in 32 years back in November.
Tucker was considered the top free agent on the market, and ESPN recently reported that the Jays had made him a long-term offer. With Tucker out of the way, we hoped that Bichette being the Jays’ top priority was a good sign.
Alas. Bichette will be eating reasonable portions of steak and playing baseball in New York. No word on whether he’s been kicked out of the Blue Jays group chat yet.
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
