After the disappointing 2025 campaign, which saw the Mets go from one of the best records in baseball to missing the playoffs on a final day of the season loss to the Marlins (stop me if you heard that one before), President of Baseball Operations David Stearns promised change, in no uncertain terms. One of the key phrases he used in his post-season press conference was run prevention, and his first major move of the offseason was centered around that, as he traded franchise stalwart Brandon Nimmo for second baseman Marcus Semien, in a good, old fashioned, overpaid veteran for overpaid veteran swap, for all you OOTP players out there.

Nimmo, whose defense and athleticism began to falter last year, is no longer the de-facto long term answer in left field, and it leaves the Mets with a lot

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