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Career timeline: Bo Bichette

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June 9, 2016: A gem in Round 2

Bichette was drafted by the Blue Jays in the second round (No. 66 overall) out of Lakewood High School, and he signed a $1.1 million bonus

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2017-19: Setting the stage

Bichette burst onto the scene in 2017, batting .362 between Single-A Lansing and High-A Dunedin ...

Q&A with Bo

... and after heading into 2018 as MLB Pipeline's No. 14 overall prospect, Bichette played a full season at Double- A and entered ‘19 as the No. 11 prospect in baseball, with fellow franchise cornerstone Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ranked No. 1

They go way back

Starting the 2019 season in Triple-A, Bichette was one step away ...

"I trust myself"

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July 29, 2019: Comes out swinging in MLB debut

On the second MLB pitch he saw, Bichette snuck a single through the left side

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July 31, 2019: Bo knows homers

Bichette’s first career MLB home run came in his third game. He got a hanging breaking ball up in the zone and didn’t miss.

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Aug. 20, 2019: Bichette takes Clayton Kershaw deep … twice!

If you didn’t know about Bo Bichette, you did after his two-homer performance against one of the greatest pitchers of this generation

Perfectly scripted

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Sept. 13, 2019: First career walk-off

Making his third hit of the night a big one, Bichette homered in the 12th inning for his first taste of walk-off heroics

Adding a double and triple to his tally on Sept. 20, 2020, Bichette’s 42 extra-base hits through 59 games were tied for fifth-most in MLB history, chasing names like Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams

Watch Bo's 1st career 3B

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April 14, 2021: Walking it off in Dunedin

With the Blue Jays still playing in Dunedin, Fla., during the COVID pandemic, Bichette lofted a walk-off shot to down the Yankees

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2021: An All-Star is born

Bichette hit .298 with 29 home runs and 25 stolen bases in 2021, emerging as one of the game’s best young shortstops at just 23 years old and earning an All-Star nod

Bichette didn’t look like himself in early 2022, racking up strikeouts while he worked to dig himself out of a hole. The wait was worth it, though ...

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Sept. 5, 2022: Good things come in threes

... when Bichette caught fire, batting .406 in September. His finest moment came when he launched three home runs against the Orioles.