BIOGRAPHY
Bo Joseph Bichette was born on March 5, 1998, in Orlando, Florida. He is a shortstop in the MLB.
Bichette is the son of former MLB player Dante Bichette and the younger brother of Dante Bichette Jr. Growing up, he was homeschooled but able to play baseball for Lakewood High school, being named Gatorade/USA Today Florida Player of the Year and Florida's Mr. Baseball in his senior year.
After finishing highschool Bichette originaly planned to attend Arizona State University, but was drafted in the second round, with the 66th overall selection, of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. Bichette started his professional career hitting to a .431 batting average, but was shortly sidelined with a ruptured appendix. Upon his return, he kept his hot bat alive and was named the Gulf Coast League's end-of-season All-Star at shortstop.
In 2017, he started the year with the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts, and he led the entire league in batting average, hits, runs scored, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS). He was named a Midwest League All-Star and also received an invitation to participate in the 2017 All-Star Futures Game. After getting promoted he was also named the Midwest League's most valuable player, and Prospect of the Year after tearing up the minors. His combined .362 batting average led all of Minor League Baseball and made him the first teenager to lead the minors in hitting since Gil Torres did so in 1963. On October 5, 2017, MLB named Bichette Toronto's Minor League Hitter of the Year.
In 2018, he played for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats and led the league with 95 runs and 43 doubles.
On July 29, 2019, the Blue Jays selected Bichette's contract and promoted him to the major leagues. On that day, he recorded his first major league hit, a single against Brad Keller of the Kansas City Royals, on just the second major league pitch he saw. On July 31, Bichette recorded three hits against the Royals, the second of which was his first MLB home run. On August 6, Bichette became the first ever MLB player to hit 10 extra base hits in his first nine major league games with a double against the Tampa Bay Rays. After hitting another double on August 7, Bichette joined Yadier Molina and Derrek Lee as the only players in the live-ball era to record a double in eight-straight games, and broke the Blue Jays franchise record set by Carlos Delgado in 2000. Playing in Toronto for the first time the following day, Bichette extended his doubles streak to nine games, setting a new MLB record. He also set a new MLB record in extra base hits in the first 11 games of his career with 13. He is also the first rookie with 9 straight games with extra base hits since Ted Williams in 1939. He also set franchise record with 20 hits and 11-game hit streak with 1.316 OPS during the 11-game span.
On July 4, 2021, Bichette was named an All-Star for the first time in his career. At the time of his nomination, Bichette had a slash line of .290/.340/.529 and had 15 home runs and 54 RBI.
On September 5, 2022, Bichette had a 3-home run game in a game against the Baltimore Orioles. In doing so, he also made history with teammate Vladimir Guerrero Jr., in which they were the first pair of teammates to have a 3-home run game in the same season, and both have fathers play in the MLB.
In 2022 he batted .290/.333/.469, and led the majors in foul balls hit, with 587.
