Nimmo landed on the 10-day injured list Saturday with a sprained right shoulder.
Nimmo has dealt with more than his fair share of injury problems in the past, so it's discouraging to see him end the year injured after a pair of seasons in which he crossed the 150-game threshold for the first time. This particular injury may not be too worrisome, however, as source reports that Nimmo avoided structural damage. If the Mets had postseason baseball to look forward to, he would address the problem with an injection, but their 72-86 record means he'll instead hit the couch a few days early and let the problem heal with rest. Michael Perez was recalled to take Nimmo's place on the roster.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Likely done for season
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Nimmo has an AC joint injury in his right shoulder and will undergo an MRI on Friday, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com reports.
Nimmo was held out of the lineup Sunday with an undisclosed injury, so this may be a related issue. The seriousness of the injury is not yet known, but given that the Mets have little to play for across the final weekend of the regular season, it's unlikely that Nimmo will return to the lineup.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Batting leadoff in return
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Nimmo (undisclosed) is back in the lineup Tuesday against the Marlins.
Nimmo will start in center field and bat leadoff versus the Marlins and left-hander Braxton Garrett after sitting out Sunday's series finale at Philadelphia due to general soreness. Nimmo, 30, boasts a .333/.394/.633 slash line in 99 plate appearances since the beginning of September.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Banged up, sitting Sunday
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Nimmo is dealing with an unspecified injury and is out of the lineup for Sunday's game at Philadelphia, Tim Britton of The Athletic reports.
The center fielder apparently suffered the injury Saturday on a slide into home plate, and manager Buck Showalter indicated Nimmo would have been replaced by a pinch runner had he reached during his ninth-inning plate appearance. It doesn't appear to be a serious issue, and Nimmo will have the Mets' scheduled day off Monday to rest before Tuesday's series opener versus the Marlins.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Homers among three hits
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Nimmo went 3-for-4 with a double, a solo home run, two additional runs and a walk against Miami in an 8-3 win Wednesday.
Nimmo has been scorching in September, batting .346 through 18 contests. He's gone deep five times during the month so far, though he hadn't homered in his previous 10 games before Wednesday. Nimmo has already established a career high with 24 homers on the campaign, and he needs one more RBI to tie the career-best mark of 64 he recorded last season.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Three more hits Tuesday
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Nimmo went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBI in Tuesday's 4-3 loss to the Marlins.
Among Nimmo's three hits was a game-tying, two-run double with two outs in the ninth inning. The tenacious 30-year-old has posted multi-hit efforts in four of the last eight games, hitting .361 (12-for-36) with four doubles, one triple, four runs and four RBI in that span.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Piles up XBH in Tuesday's win
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Nimmo went 3-for-4 with a walk, two doubles, a triple and two runs scored in Tuesday's 7-4 win over the Diamondbacks.
The Mets' leadoff hitter had no trouble getting himself into scoring position as he continued a tear that has seen him slash .333/.390/.741 over his last 13 games with 11 total extra-base hits (five doubles, a triple and five homers). Nimmo's 23 long balls on the year are a career high, and his .819 OPS has him on track to post a mark in the .800s for the fourth straight season.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Homers Monday
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Nimmo went 1-for-3 with a two-run home run in Monday's 4-3 loss against Texas.
Nimmo had been mired in an 0-for-20 slump prior to Monday's contest. He opened the scoring with a two-run blast off of Jon Gray in the third inning, his career-best 19th homer of the year and his fourth in his last 14 games. The 30-year-old Nimmo is now slashing .259/.356/.435 with 72 runs scored and 53 RBI across 563 plate appearances on the campaign.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Knocks three hits
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Nimmo went 3-for-5 with a solo homer and a second run scored in Friday's win against St. Louis.
Nimmo got things started with a leadoff homer in the first inning. It was his 18th home run of the season, setting a new career high. He's collected multiple hits in six of his last seven games, raising his season slash line to .269/.366/.452 with 68 runs scored and 42 extra-base hits through 117 contests.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Homers in win
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Nimmo went 2-for-5 with a solo homer and an additional run scored in Monday's 7-2 win over the Pirates.
Nimmo capped the scoring in the sixth inning with a solo home run off Osvaldo Bido, his 16th of the year and first since July 21. The 30-year-old Nimmo has now hit safely in six straight games, including three consecutive multi-hit efforts, going 9-for-23 (.391) in that span. His slash line is up to .261/.358/.434 with 65 runs scored, 48 RBI and three steals across 506 plate appearances on the campaign.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Playing through quad injury
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Nimmo has been playing through a quadricep injury since the beginning of August and will only play in Game 2 of Saturday's doubleheader against Atlanta, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com reports.
Nimmo's injury caused him to miss two games at the beginning of August, and the Mets have allowed him to play through it since then. Manager Buck Showalter said he wasn't comfortable starting Nimmo in both games of Saturday's twin bill because of the injury, so the center fielder will wait until the nightcap to get on the field. While playing through his injury this month, Nimmo is slashing .227/.346/.273 through 26 plate appearances.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Sitting Game 1
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Nimmo isn't in the Mets' lineup for the first game of Saturday's doubleheader against Atlanta.
Nimmo has collected a hit in each of his last three games, and he'll get a breather to begin Saturday's activities. Rafael Ortega will slide to center field in Nimmo's absence, allowing Abraham Almonte to start in left and bat sixth.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Not in Sunday's lineup
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Nimmo is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Orioles.
The 30-year-old started the past two contests after sitting out three games with quadriceps tightness, and it appears he'll get a maintenance day for the series finale in Baltimore. Rafael Ortega will receive another start in center field in Nimmo's place.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Back in lineup
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Nimmo (quad) is starting in center field and batting in the leadoff spot Friday against Baltimore.
Quad tightness has kept Nimmo out of the lineup for each of New York's last three games, but the issue seems to have subsided ahead of Friday's series opener. The 30-year-old outfielder is slashing just .193/.277/.368 over 65 plate appearances since the All-Star break.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Out again with tight quad
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Nimmo (quad) is out of the lineup again Thursday against the Royals.
It's the third straight absence for Nimmo, who is working through some minor quad tightness. He assured reporters Wednesday that it's nothing serious. Rafael Ortega will get start in center field and bat ninth for the Mets on Thursday afternoon in Kansas City.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Battling quad tightness
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Nimmo was scratched from Tuesday's lineup due to quad tightness, Tim Healey of Newsday reports.
Nimmo's quad started tightening up during batting practice before Tuesday's game against Kansas City and ended up being enough to keep him out of the lineup for the first time since June 4. No details have been provided regarding the severity of Nimmo's injury, but he should be considered day-to-day for now.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Ends up sitting Tuesday
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Nimmo was scratched from the lineup ahead of Tuesday's game against the Royals for an unspecified reason.
According to Tim Healey of Newsday, Mets manager Buck Showalter said that he had about seven lineups at his disposal based on how the roster might have changed leading up to the 6 p.m. ET trade deadline, and the final starting nine the skipper settled on didn't include Nimmo. The Mets haven't specified that Nimmo's late scratch was the result of an injury or illness, as Showalter may have just instead elected to give the center fielder a rare breather on the day the team essentially waived the white flag on contending for a wild-card spot. Nimmo had started in every game since June 4.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Clubs 12th homer
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Nimmo went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in Saturday's 4-1 win over the Giants.
The 30-year-old outfielder socked one of three solo shots in the third inning off Anthony DeSclafani on a day in which the Mets managed only four hits in total. Nimmo's been swinging a hot bat as the All-Star break approaches, and over his last 10 games he's batting .308 (12-for-39) with five of his 12 homers on the season.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Continues power surge
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Nimmo went 1-for-2 with a solo home run and two walks Thursday in a loss to the Brewers.
Brett Baty launched a solo shot in the third inning for New York's first run, and Nimmo immediately followed with a long ball of his own. The homer was the veteran outfielder's third in his past three games and his seventh over his past 19 contests after he went deep just four times across his initial 60 games of the campaign. Nimmo is up to 11 long balls on the season, putting him on pace to surpass his career-high mark of 17 set in 2018.
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Mets' Brandon Nimmo: Launches two homers
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Nimmo went 2-for-4 with two home runs and three total RBI in Tuesday's 7-2 win over the Brewers.
The 30-year-old clubbed a pair of long balls off Julio Teheran for his first multi-homer effort of the campaign, and it's also just the third time this year he's driven in more than two runs in a game. Nimmo is hitting .253 with six home runs and 17 RBI through 22 games in June, but he's also struck out at a 31 percent clip. Overall in 2023 he has a .282/.371/.449 slash line with 26 extra-base hits, 38 RBI and three stolen bases in 349 plate appearances.
