Bo Go?

[Edgy MD]

Bob Nightengale, who is generally nobody's fool, recently wrote that MLB teams still expect Bo Bichette to opt out of his contract at the end of the season.

It's really little more than a filler story, but again, Nightengale doesn't tend to pull stuff out of his ass.  Bichette, took a VERY big average annual salary in exchange for shorter years than the Phils were offering him.  The headline suggests that this would be "bad news" for the Mets but editors write those, and I imagine not a lot of Met-fan folks are seeing the notion that way on June 14.

I imagine Bichette has a better rest of the year ahead of him than what is behind him.  Still, getting $40 million cut from the payroll by letting a guy with backup-shortstop batting numbers walk has to look like the least of the Mets problems right now.