Gary Cohen reacts to the Mets trading Brandon Nimmo for Marcus Semien

Gary Cohen reacts to the Mets trading Brandon Nimmo for Marcus Semien

We are now joined by the voice
of the Mets here on SNY Gary Cohen and Gary will get to the
baseball side of this deal in just a second. But obviously you
around this club every day and for Brandon Mo that means a
decade. Sort of how surprised is not the
word. But sort of what you’re feeling to know that
Brandon Nimmo is no longer a met. Well, it’s always hard to
get rid of the guys that you’ve known from the time that they first
sign their contract. I mean, I remember meeting Brandon as an 18 year-old back when he was drafted out of Wyoming and 2011 and he was a delightful
presence. There’s, there’s no question that his personality
will be missed Above All Else. He spent 15
years in this organization. The last 10 at the big league level as you mentioned, he’s the
longest tenured met and now he is no longer now he gets
reunited with Jacob, degrom in in Texas and it’s it’s a sad day from that
standpoint. It’s a very interesting day from a baseball
standpoint as Andy was pointing out because there are So many threads to what this means for the Mets,
going forward. But it’s sad to see somebody who was
so well liked and so, well respected and never faltered in that for 15 years. Leave the organization, he is Especial met. He will always be
one of the of the most gentlemanly
ballplayers that has ever come through here. So from that standpoint, Point. He will definitely be
missed just one more along those lines.
As we’ve discussed many times chemistry on a
baseball team is fleeting The rosters always different from
year to year, so it’s never the same. But how do you think
not having Brandon Nimmo in that Clubhouse? Could affect this
team’s chemistry? Well, as you say every year it’s different. I
remember after 2024 with such a special group, everybody in that Clubhouse,
basically, it’s the same thing, it would be great to roll it
back again, but that’s just not realistic. Every year is
different, in the clubhouse change from 20
It’s 25, and it will change from 25 to 26. I will also add
that everything I’ve ever heard about
Marcus semien tells me that he’s going to be a
breath of fresh air in that Clubhouse because he is a very
well-regarded person in his own, right? So that certainly, you know, will change the nature of things just by his presence rather than
Brandon’s. But I think that, you know, you try and bring in
High character people and I the Mets have traded one, and
they’re bringing back another one. So let’s now focus on
Marcus semien. How do you think his presence and especially his
glove, I guess, improves the Mets in 2026 and Beyond? Well, he won a gold
glove at age 34. So that’s pretty impressive. He just
turned 35. So, you know, he’s a little more than two years
older than Brandon but he seems to have aged defensively better.
Brandon did not have a good year in the Outfield last
year, this gives the meth more
flexibility. You take away 5 years of When you bring back three years
of semi and again Marcus is a couple of years older but at least offensively the Aging
curve seems not to have hit him as hard now you know offensively
how it impacts the Mets is going to be
fascinating because the last couple of years have
not been kind to Marcus he played through a very difficult
foot injury last year but it also does something else.
The Mets have been trying to get more right-handed
and they do that with this trade and that has Facts Beyond
just bringing in your everyday. Second basement, it affects Mark
Vientos is status on this team because he was valued as a right-handed
bat it obviously affects Jeff.
McNeil set us on this team because he’s the incumbent
second baseman although he does have positional flexibility but
you know what this does more than anything else is it opens
up left field and that that presents a whole plethora
of possibilities. Whether that means of course in Ventura jet
Williams either from opening
day. Eventually or the possibility of
signing a Kyle Tucker, or Cody Bellinger at the top of the
free agent market. So as Andy said, it’s only the
first Domino to fall, but there are so many impacts Beyond this,
that will give David Stern’s a little more
flexibility as he moves forward as it. Improves the meds
defense. Yes. And it’ll be interesting to see what this
leads to. And of course, it will be a busy offseason. Gary
Cohen, thanks for hopping on here for the coverage of the breaking news, with the
Mets trading. Brandon Mo now from one See who’s around
the team every day to another. Steve gelb’s joins us and Steve Brandon Nemo’s, the
longest-tenured Met, he’s been here since 2015. You’ve covered
his entire career. Give us a sense. What it’s going to be
like for you to walk into that clubhouse at Port st.lucie and Citi Field and not see Brendan
Mo that’s going to be very bizarre.
Amen and text a little bit back and forth
with Brandon just thanking him for everything over
the years and he’s one of those rare not just
rare athletes but rare people Just as good a person as I’ve
ever been around in my life, so happy, so joyous. And, and for me, so the two things that will
always stand out about Brandon, where one, you see a lot of guys enter the league with a lot of
optimism and joy and as the years go on, maybe they get a little jaded
and things happen, and they change and Brandon is the
exact same guy now. That he was when he first came
into the league so that that in and of itself is
a rarity in sports. The second thing though, is, I think we sometimes forget the level of work that Brandon
had to put in, to squeeze out every possible
ounce of talent that was in that, that body friend and mo every year of a
joke with them every spring, okay, what what’s it this year?
What are we working on this year? let me spend the offseason
improving, he would always pick a weakness
and he would just work his tail up to get better at it, whether
that was hitting lefties, whether that was improving his defense enough in Centerfield to be re-signed as a center
fielder, that be able to play Everyday
center field at one point, whatever it was, he just really was one of those
old-fashioned throwback Grinders and he was drafted as someone
that was raw didn’t have any High School
baseball in Wyoming money, When he was drafted, was drafted a spot ahead of
Jose, Fernandez. And that was something that stuck with him
for a while. As he took a long time to get to the majors
compared to Fernandez. And certainly to Peak the way we’ve seen over the last
number of years, but I just, I always respected the
way that he worked. And so it’s going to be, it’s going to be
really strange, not having him around and and listen. He is somebody that I will always,
always, always be rooting for wherever he goes now. It’s
Texas, but but wherever he goes in the future, one more along those lines, he
clearly was a leader on this team. I know they’ve been
talking about, you know, there’d been some conversations
last spring about making it captain for the Mets, but guess
they didn’t need one, but certainly he was a spokesperson and a leader. So
how do you think his absence will impact the
clubhouse? I think and Gary spoke about
this as well, it will be an absence. But everything that
you hear when you speak to people around the league, is that message, certainly
losing a great person and leader, but they’re gaining one as well
at Marcus semien. So, you know, sometimes I mean, you never know every year how
the mix is going to be in a club house and Brandon was one of the great. Like I said,
great people, great leaders, but Snow. Sometimes this core
has been around and been together for a long time and
sometimes it needs to be shaken up. I
don’t think Brandon is personality or his play
needed to be subtracted but sometimes it’s good to just
change up the mix. And again, you’re bringing in someone who
is very well regarded in Marcus semien. So yes, you will miss Brandon demo
in that Clubhouse but it is not as if they
subtracted and Mo and brought in somebody who has the opposite
reputation, they brought in some Buddy, who has an equally
Sterling reputation for that and hopefully that
contributes in a positive way to the 2026 Mets. All right, we’ll see how that
turns out for the Mets and Steve gelb’s, thanks for joining
us here. On SNY is again, breaking news. The Mets
have traded Brandon Nimmo to the Texas Rangers for Gold
Glove. Second baseman Marcus semien.

SNY’s Mets play-by-play broadcaster Gary Cohen speaks with Eamon McAnaney about the Mets trading Brandon Nimmo to the Rangers for Marcus Semien and what that means for the team moving forward. Steve Gelbs also joins to discuss what trading Nimmo means for the Mets’ clubhouse.

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