Brandon Nimmo (Ni-moe) started his Major League Baseball career with the New York Mets. He was 23 at the time and it was 2016. He played with the Mets, and he played well. In 80 plate appearances his first season he hit .274 which means he was hitting very well. Defensively he was already very good. In 2022 he had became a free agent for the first time, and on December 10, 2022 he re-signed with the New York Mets. By this time he was 29 years old and signed an 8 year, 162 million dollar contract. This is a long and expensive contract and MLB players usually only make it to the age of 35 then retire, so people thought that he was going to be a New York Mets for the rest of his career. After he signed the contract in 2022 he said in these exact words, “Feels good to put this jersey back on and know it’s not coming back off.” Little did he know what was coming in the next few years.

Marcus Semian (Se-me-an) is the player that was traded away from the Texas Rangers so they can get Brandon Nimmo. Marcus Semian began his career at the age of 22. He played with the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers, so he never really stayed loyal to a team. He started his career in the year of 2013 and did pretty well for a rookie with an average of .261 in 69 at bats. Since he never exactly stayed loyal to a team, maybe he was used to changing, unlike Brandon Nimmo.

Did Brandon Nimmo want to be traded? Although it seemed like a surprise at first it became known that Brandon Nimmo got rid of the No Trade Policy on his contract. He later said and made known that although he thought he was going to retire as a Met like David Wright, he still wanted to win a World Series and didn’t see it coming from or with the Mets. It is also the fact that the Texas Rangers have Nimmo’s ex-teammate and friend Jacob DeGrom. So it is possible that Nimmo might have also wanted to play with Jacob DeGrom again especially after DeGrom’s really good 2025 season.

So now to see if this trade was even: Nimmo’s 2025 batting average was .262 in 587 at bats, and Marcus Semian’s batting average was .230 in 470 at bats. Brandon Nimmo’s OBP is .324 and Marcus Semian’s is .321 so although all of them are close Nimmo had the better season offensively. On the other hand both of these players only had 2 errors this season.

To sum it up with the research I have done, this was an even trade, but Nimmo did just a little better.