{"id":49678,"date":"2025-11-23T22:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49678\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T22:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:49:08","slug":"mets-trading-brandon-nimmo-to-rangers-for-marcus-semien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49678\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets trading Brandon Nimmo to Rangers for Marcus Semien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets\u2019 first major move after missing the postseason involved trading their longest-tenured player.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re trading Brandon Nimmo \u2014 who had a full no-trade clause after inking his eight-year, $162 million deal back in 2022 and approve the deal \u2014 to the Rangers in exchange for infielder Marcus Semien, The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37746871\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gestures-walks-dugout-mets-lost-112376544.jpg\" alt=\"New York Mets' Brandon Nimmo in the dugout after losing a baseball game.\" class=\"wp-image-37746871\"  \/>Brandon Nimmo has spent all 10 of his MLB seasons with the Mets. AP<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37746885\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/texas-rangers-second-baseman-marcus-71652363.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien (2) hits a home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks.\" class=\"wp-image-37746885\"  \/>Marcus Semien is pictured in 2023. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con<\/p>\n<p>Nimmo, who has spent all 10 seasons of his career with the Mets, hit .262 with a .760 OPS across 155 games last season, while Semien \u2014 an All-Star in three of his last five seasons \u2014 hit .230 with a .669 OPS across 127 games.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s the first step for president of baseball operations David Stearns to fix a roster that had World Series expectations in 2025 but couldn\u2019t even crack the postseason tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Semien, a second baseman, adds a new piece to the Mets\u2019 infield, which often shuffled through Jeff McNeil and Brett Baty at second base last year.<\/p>\n<p>He inked a seven-year, $175 million deal with the Rangers ahead of the 2022 season, and he became a key piece of the Texas team that won the World Series the following year.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets\u2019 first major move after missing the postseason involved trading their longest-tenured player. They\u2019re trading Brandon Nimmo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27920,27921,20,21528,9,11,320,10,319,24627],"class_list":{"0":"post-49678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-brandon-nimmo","9":"tag-marcus-semien","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}