Nimmo returning to Mets on 8-year, $162M deal (source)
The Mets are bringing again free-agent heart fielder Brandon Nimmo with an eight-year contract price $162 million, a supply informed MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. The membership has not confirmed the deal.
Nimmo has spent his complete profession with the Mets, hitting .269/.385/.441 with 63 homers and 213 RBIs in 608 video games.
The 29-year-old performed a career-high 151 video games this previous season and produced 5.0 WAR (per Baseball-Reference) for New York, posting a .274/.367/.433 slash with 16 homers and 102 runs scored.
It marked simply the second time in seven seasons (together with the shortened 2020 season) that he reached 100 video games performed. Although he was chosen with the thirteenth total decide within the 2011 MLB Draft, he didn’t break in as a constant starter for the Mets till 2018 and battled frequent accidents previous to 2022.
Over the previous 5 seasons, Nimmo is tied for sixteenth amongst Major Leaguers (min. 2,000 plate appearances) with a 134 OPS+. The solely common heart fielder in that group with a greater OPS+ than Nimmo? Angels famous person Mike Trout.
The Cheyenne, Wyo., native’s journey to the Majors was an unlikely one contemplating he didn’t even play highschool baseball, with Wyoming being one of many solely states that doesn’t provide it. After rising to prominence as a prospect whereas taking part in American Legion Baseball and showing in different beginner showcase occasions, Nimmo turned the primary Wyoming native to be chosen within the first spherical of the MLB Draft.
Nimmo bounced across the outfield early in his profession, however he has turned himself right into a succesful defender in heart, to the purpose the place the Mets had been comfy shifting veteran Starling Marte to proper area full time after signing him to a four-year, $78 million contract final offseason.
Nimmo made all 151 of his appearances in heart area throughout 2022, and his 6 Outs Above Average tied him for eleventh on the place (out of 46 qualifiers).
He can also be amongst MLB’s most disciplined hitters, as evidenced by his profession 13.6% stroll charge (2022 MLB common: 8.2%) and 17.8% chase charge (2022 MLB common: 29%). With a profession .385 on-base share, Nimmo has persistently dealt with leadoff duties throughout his massive league tenure.
