{"id":400308,"date":"2025-11-24T01:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:43:15","slug":"mets-painful-brandon-nimmo-sacrifice-makes-perfect-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400308\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; painful Brandon Nimmo sacrifice makes perfect sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball seasons, like elections, have consequences. And so the uber-makeover by the Mets began with a blockbuster \u2014 the surprise exchange of stars that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/23\/sports\/mets-trading-brandon-nimmo-to-rangers-for-marcus-semien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent the beloved Brandon Nimmo to Texas in a straight-up deal for Marcus Semien<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sentiment is out the window following a disastrous 2025 Mets season in which they memorably and pathetically failed to beat out the tiny-market Cincinnati Reds for the final playoff spot. So Nimmo was sacrificed in the name of defense and right-handedness.<\/p>\n<p>Nimmo will be recalled for his clutch hits, consistent hustle and infectious enthusiasm, and for quite some time. But on paper, this deal makes perfect sense for a team that\u2019s desperate to get better glovework \u2014 upon the story breaking around dinnertime Sunday, the first thing one Mets higher-up mentioned was Semien\u2019s Gold Glove at second base (which differentiated him from every Met in \u201925) \u2014 and not be so lefty-swinging heavy.<\/p>\n<p>As much as we all hate to see Nimmo go, and that includes teammates, fans and writers, though I\u2019m not sure in what order \u2014 Nimmo texted \u201cI will miss you, too\u201d right after the trade hit X \u2014 the swap makes complete sense. Nimmo was still a solid defender in left field though he\u2019s slipped some, while Semien remains among the best with the glove. Plus, Semien bats right-handed, which helps begin balancing the lopsided lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball seasons, like elections, have consequences. And so the uber-makeover by the Mets began with a blockbuster \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":400309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7599,3378,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,1278,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-400308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brandon-nimmo","10":"tag-marcus-semien","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-columnists","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-texas-rangers","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115602142493807856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}