{"id":52459,"date":"2025-11-26T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:31:07","slug":"marcus-semien-wants-to-be-a-mets-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52459\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Semien wants to be a Mets solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Semien understands the expectations in the market he is entering, but also the popularity of the player he is in essence replacing.<\/p>\n

Traded to the Mets for Brandon Nimmo, the Gold Glove second baseman knows his value to the organization extends beyond statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand how good a clubhouse presence Brandon was,\u201d Semien said on a Zoom call Tuesday, two days after the trade with Texas was finalized. \u201cI feel for Mets fans when you lose a player who has been present and such a fixture in that lineup and in the community and has a great personality and is such a nice guy. I want to get to know the fans, get to know the community and let my game do the talking. I definitely think I will be a presence in that locker room that guys can lean on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Semien, 35, will be asked to help bond a clubhouse that may have fragmented last season<\/a> as the Mets began plummeting in June. It\u2019s a team that fell one victory short of the postseason, leading president of baseball operations David Stearns to decide that changing the cast was necessary.<\/p>\n

Throughout his career \u2014 including previous stops with the White Sox, A\u2019s and Blue Jays before arriving to the Rangers \u2014 Semien has forged a reputation as somebody who puts the team first.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"MarcusMarcus Semien talks to reporters on a Zoom call introducing him as a Met.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy style as a leader is definitely something that has evolved,\u201d Semien said. \u201cThe one thing that has remained constant for me is leading by example with how I work. Leading by example with how I respect each member of the organization. Treat everybody like a man or a woman, whoever you are working with. I\u2019m mostly talking about my teammates here. Respect them. Help them through times, get to know them as a person. Get to know their families, so when we go out to battle we know how each other is going to react.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just don\u2019t go out there and play baseball and go home and don\u2019t talk to anybody. You build relationships with your guys. That may mean more time off the field spent together. That is definitely something I\u2019m very passionate about. All those things can help once we\u2019re out there on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Semien, who is under contract for $72 million over the next three years, brings an elite glove, but will look for recovery following a season in which he produced a slash line of .230\/.305\/.364 with 15 homers and 62 RBIs in 127 games. He missed the final five weeks of the season with a broken left foot and sprain from a foul ball.<\/p>\n

The foot, according to Semien, is healed. Now he will try to remedy his offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m disappointed in the way I performed offensively last year,\u201d he said, noting that he\u2019s anxious to start working with Jeff Albert and Troy Snitker, the tandem heading the Mets hitting department. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to talking to [them] about what I need to do to be that MVP caliber bat in this lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RangersRangers second baseman Marcus Semien (2) swings at a pitch. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

As for the idea he is a winning player, Semien said he heard such talk from Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what people are looking for in this industry,\u201d Semien said. \u201cFor me, \u2018winning player\u2019 means somebody who is going to go out there every single day and give it their all, sacrifice themselves for the team, put their body on the line for the team. And go out there and play baseball and try to do the things that help you win the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Semien, a father of five \u2014 the most recent arrival occurred three weeks ago \u2014 said he spoke to former Rangers teammate Max Scherzer (who has four children) about family life in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose kinds of things, logistically, we will work out,\u201d Semien said. \u201cBut in terms of baseball itself I couldn\u2019t be more excited to play in a large market, play in front of a fan base that brings the energy every night, because that brings the best out of me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Semien understands the expectations in the market he is entering, but also the popularity of the player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27921,20,9,11,320,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-52459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-marcus-semien","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459","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=52459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}