Brandon Nimmo was convinced that he was going to be a Mets lifer, from draft pick to his No. 9 joining the rest of the retired numbers atop Citi Field.

That all came to a crashing halt on Sunday when the Mets and president of baseball operations David Stearns traded him to the Texas Rangers for veteran second baseman Marcus Semien, bringing a 14-year run with the organization to an end.

"It definitely took me as a shock," Nimmo said. "We had built this life centered around that we were going to be New York Mets until the very end."

The 32-year-old left fielder, coming off a career-best 25-home-run season, had a full no-trade clause built in his contract, which had five years and $102 million remaining.

Semien's limited no-trade clause had the Mets as one of his approved teams, meaning

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