Brandon Nimmo says he was left stunned by an unexpected Mets breakup, a development he didn’t anticipate.
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Nimmo’s phone rang on November 20, and David Stearns’ name appeared on the screen. In that instant, Nimmo grasped that something significant was underway.
Stearns had reached out before. They’d already debriefed on the 2025 season just a few weeks earlier, for instance. But previously there had always been a quick text to arrange a meeting. Now it was about 2 p.m., and Nimmo told his wife and mother-in-law he couldn’t let the call go to voicemail, noting how “irregular” and “out of the blue” it felt to receive a direct call from the Mets’ chief of baseball operations.
So he stepped outside, and what ran through his mind, looking back, was almost humorous—he assumed there was a time-sensitive trade on the table, meaning his input on a player involved could be urgently required. He even wondered if something more urgent and potentially bad was unfolding.
As it turned out, he was right (https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/sports/mets-trading-brandon-nimmo-to-rangers-for-marcus-semien/) — and he wasn’t mistaken.
