Bo Bichette

He is the first rookie with 9 straight games with extra-base hits since Ted Williams in 1939.

Bichette set franchise records with 20 hits and an 11-game hit streak with a 1.316 OPS during the 11-game span.

He finished the season hitting .311 with 11 home runs in 46 games.

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.

Bo Joseph Bichette (born March 5, 1998) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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 appeared in 131 games and batted .286 with 95 runs (leading the Eastern League), 43 doubles (leading the league), 7 triples (tied for the league lead), 11 home runs, 74 RBIs (tied for 3rd), 48 walks (9th), and 32 stolen bases (2nd).

The Toronto Blue Jays selected Bichette in the second round, with the 66th overall selection, of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft.

He stated afterward that he turned down four offers during the draft in order to go to Toronto, and signed for a $1.1 million bonus on June 17.

After opening the season with a .431 batting average through 18 games with the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays, Bichette was placed on the 7-day injured list after experiencing an injury to his midsection, which was later determined to be a ruptured appendix.

He returned to the lineup shortly before the end of the season, and finished the year with a .427 batting average, four home runs, and 36 runs batted in (RBI) in 22 games.

Despite missing more than half of the season with injury, Bichette was named the Gulf Coast League's end-of-season All-Star at shortstop on September 13.

During the offseason, he represented Brazil at the 2017 World Baseball Classic – Qualifier 4.

Bichette was assigned to the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts to begin the 2017 season.

On June 7, he was named a Midwest League All-Star.

To that point in the season, Bichette led the league in batting average, hits, runs scored, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS).

Bichette raised his batting average to an even .400 after a 7-for-8 performance in a doubleheader against the South Bend Cubs on June 15.

On June 29, he was named to the U.S. roster for the 2017 All-Star Futures Game.

On July 6, Bichette was named the Midwest League Player of the Month for June.

Later that day, the Blue Jays announced he would be promoted to the Advanced-A Dunedin Blue Jays after the All-Star Futures Game.

On October 5, 2017, MLB named Bichette Toronto's Minor League Hitter of the Year.

Bichette was named the Midwest League's Most Valuable Player (MVP), Prospect of the Year, and a Postseason All-Star on August 18 after hitting .384/.448/.623 with 32 doubles (2nd in the Midwest League), 10 home runs, and 51 RBIs in 70 games for Lansing.

For Dunedin, Bichette appeared in 40 games and hit .323 with four home runs, 23 RBI, and 10 stolen bases.

In 2018, he played for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

He made his MLB debut in 2019.

Bichette is a two-time MLB All-Star and twice led the American League in hits.

His father, Dante Bichette, also played in MLB.

Bichette was home schooled, but competed in baseball for Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg, Florida.

As a senior, he batted .569 with 13 home runs, and was named the Gatorade/USA Today Florida Player of the Year and Florida's Mr. Baseball.

Bichette committed to attend Arizona State University to play college baseball for the Arizona State Sun Devils.

Bichette began the 2019 season with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons.

On April 22, he was hit on the left hand by a pitch and later diagnosed with a broken hand.

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 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 MLB player to hit 10 extra base hits in his first nine major league games with a double against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Overall with the 2020 Blue Jays, Bichette batted .301 with five home runs and 23 RBIs in 29 games.

On July 4, 2021, Bichette was named an All-Star for the first time.