Blue Jays' Bo Bichette with some interesting comments about fellow infielder Ernie Clement
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Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette talked about his recent power surge and what his fellow infielder Ernie Clement means to him and this team.
Bichette like the rest of us, thinks that Ernie Clement is underrrated and doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
The Athletic's Mitch Bannon asked him what his thoughts on Clements season so far.
Bo Bichette on Ernie Clement, who's now hitting .304:
«I think he is playing like an all star. And probably should get some recognition for that.»
«I think he is playing like an all star. And probably should get some recognition for that.»
Bo seems to be locking in all the various elements of his game lately. Saturday's homer was his third of the current homestand, during which he's 9-for-22 with five RBIs and five runs scored, looking exactly like the type of carrying player he's capable of being.
«This season's kind of been like a couple different stories for me,» he said in an interview with Sportsnet's Shi Davidi before the game. «The first month, I was very competitive, got a lot of two-strike hits, average was high, but there wasn't a whole lot of power. The next month, it all kind of flipped and went the other way, average wasn't as high as I'm used to, but the power was there. And lately, well, I'm trying to put them together. I've had my moments and I've not had my moments. But I feel like I'm getting closer to just putting it all together.»
Bichette's recent surge is less the byproduct of some recent changes and results beginning to more closely align with good process, as his underlying numbers have been strong all season.
He entered Saturday's play with an expected batting average of .313, a 98th-percentile mark which is the highest of his career.
His expected slug of .513 is second only to the .532 he posted during the pandemic summer of 2020, his hard-hit percentage of 49.6 is just off his personal best of 50.3 in 2022, while his strikeout percentage of 15.9 is also a personal best, well ahead of last year's 19.
Yet in 30 games during March/April, he hit .295 but slugged only .364, before in May, batting .261 while slugging .513 with seven homers.
"That wasn't totally by design I didn't go into the month saying I want homers,» he said, but «once I started hitting a couple, I probably fell in love with that a little bit more than grinding out hits. Now that I have some homers on the board, I'm trying to put it all together because I want to be a complete hitter, not one or the other.»
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