Blue Jays prospect Bo Bichette has done 'everything they asked me to do'

You can’t blame Toronto Blue Jays prospect Bo Bichette if he is getting a little restless while waiting to join most of his former teammates in the major leagues.

After working his way through the organization’s minor league system together, Bichette has watched several players that he climbed levels with — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Cavan Biggio, to name a pair — make their debuts at the highest level this season, while he remains behind in Triple-A Buffalo, waiting for his call.

“I’ve done everything they asked me to do,” Bichette told Sportsnet’s David Singh. “I’ve performed, I’ve put up numbers. I’ve gotten better offensively, defensively, base-running, as an athlete, as a teammate. Everything they’ve asked me to do, I’ve done for the past three years. So, if I’m not ready in their mind, there’s something new that they need to tell me I need to get better at.”

Bichette’s numbers back up the claim, as he carried a .301/.361/.486 line with five home runs and 27 RBI for Buffalo into Tuesday’s game. Any concerns that he would be slow to recover from a hand injury he sustained earlier in the season are now far in the past, with a .325/.382/.525 line in the 29 games since returning from the injury offering plenty of proof that he’s feeling fine.

The 21-year-old shortstop was lauded by the organization during spring training, and his assignment for the season was a wide swath directive to continue improving.

Based on basically every measurable metric — including confidence — he has done just that.

Blue Jays fans are no strangers to watching top prospects wait their turn to take the final step to the big leagues, as the great Guerrero service time saga doubled as a crash course in MLB contract literacy this time last year.

The situation isn’t quite the same for Bichette. The aforementioned Biggio needs regular playing time to prove himself at the major league level, while veteran infielders Freddy Galvis and Eric Sogard have earned their right to near every day appearances. If one or both of those two are moved by the trade deadline at the end of the month, we may be seeing Bichette in the major leagues before the season is through.

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