Toronto Blue Jays’ shortstop Bo Bichette will be left of the team’s ALDS roster due to a a knee sprain he suffered back on September 6th as he was sliding into home plate in a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium, according to ESPN.
Bichette, 27, bounced back from a 2024 campaign that was derailed by injuries to have a solid 2025 season in which he batted .311 with 18 home runs and an .840 OPS to help lead Toronto to a 94 win season and the AL East Division title.
Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Bichette still needed to clear running tests and also hit against velocity in order to be activated adding that the Blue Jays would not have Bichette on the roster in a limited role.
“I would say for him to be on, he’d have to play pretty regularly,” Schneider said. “Just with the way we deploy our guys, we don’t want to deviate too much from what we’ve been doing. So it’s not saving him for a Kirk Gibson at-bat once a game that may not come. He’d have to be pretty regular in some capacity.”
The Blue Jays will also not have either right-handed starters Chris Bassitt and Max Scherzer among their pitching unit, consisting of 13 pitchers, for the ALDS round.
Kevin Gausman is slated to start Game 1 of the ALDS on Saturday.
