Mets' Bo Bichette looks totally broken after Blue Jays departure

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Bo Bichette doesn't look healthy when he runs. He isn't hitting anything with authority. He actually doesn't look bad at third base, but that's still an unfamiliar position for him.

And the New York Mets signed him to a contract worth $42 million per year to leave the Toronto Blue Jays in free agency and come to Queens.

Well, so far, not good.

Bichette has been one of the early season's biggest disappointments, with ESPN's David Schoenfield writing in a new article on Tuesday that no third baseman has been more disappointing than Bichette.

It'd be hard to even make a case for anyone else. Bichette's expectations were sky high. His performance has been anything but.

"For $42 million, the Mets expected a lot more than an occasional single," Schoenfield writes. "Bichette is hitting .233/.268/.302 and he has looked that bad. He's not running well at all, not barreling up anything and pounding everything into the ground. He's also struggling against four-seam fastballs, hitting .148. It looks like there's some bad luck cooked into his low average, but this could end up turning into one of the major blunders of the offseason."

After a late-season collapse last season, the Mets decided to totally change their roster.

They let go of guys like Pete Alonso, Edwin Diaz, and .