Memories of Zimmo

[Edgy MD]

Ten years of them! Right here in this space!!

[Benjamin Grimm]

[MFS62]

I amazed me that a kid from Wyoming could fit in so well in the big city.

Later

[Edgy MD]

The catch, the fist-pump, the flex, robbing the former Met, and bailing out his future teammate.

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[Edgy MD]

The biggest hero on this night of heroes was Starling Marte, but enjoy the Nimmomination shining through in this home-booth stunner of a rally.

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[metirish]

Gosh darn it, I'll miss him, a hustler who's game changed over the years , I'll miss his positivity

[whippoorwill]

I’ll miss him as a person.

But dang he struck out a lot

Drafted him 3 years in a row for my fantasy team and dumped him by May every time.

Hubby drafted him this year and he could hear me cackling from across the hall. I think he dumped him by May too.

Strike outs are -.5 points in our league. Nimmo was a fantasy team nightmare

[whippoorwill]

Oh sorry.

Fantasy team post

[whippoorwill]

Oh sorry.

Fantasy team post

[G-Fafif]

”Mets fans, we need you guys to fill this place up. This place needs to be rockin’ Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we need your help. We need everybody to get out here, we need this place full. This is playoff baseball, this is what you guys want. Let’s go! Let’s Go Mets!”

 

That was Nimmo to Gelbs ahead of the Phillies series that closed out the 2024 home slate, the finale of which was won in great part on Brandon’s Bob Seger home run (against the wind) off Zack Wheeler. A real culmination of his Met career to that point moment. Anybody else yelling at us to get our asses in the seats wouldn’t have carried the moral authority Brandon’s entreaty did. He’d been here long enough and knew what we guys wanted.

[Gwreck]

The catch from 2022 occurred the same night as Timmy Trumpet’s in-person performance. It was against the Dodgers, deGrom was back — maybe the best game at Citi that year.

From 2024: it gets slightly overlooked because the Mets gave the lead up, but in game 161 in Atlanta, Nimmo hit the massive homer in the top of the 8th to put the Mets up by 3 runs.

The 2016 game against the Cubs at which he hit his first major league homer and got a curtain call from the fans.

Big pinch hit 3-run homer in 2018 at Dodger Stadium to win it for the Mets (who were down 2-1 at the time).

[Lefty Specialist]

I'll miss him. He wasn't the greatest ever, but he was solid enough. Had his moments as noted above, and he always felt genuine to me. He ran to first on every walk, even when his foot hurt. Was a Christian but wasn't in your face about it. Always smiled like he meant it, too. You got the feeling that he felt lucky to play a kid's game for big money.

Yeah, his contract will age badly, but so will Semien's. I hope he has an awesome year for the Rangers.

[Fman99]

That catch in the deGrom game is the first thing that popped into my head.

Had tons of clutch hits and HRs over the years, too many for me to recall.

I loved all of his "aw shucks" wholesome enjoyment of the game. The

where he and the other Mets are taking season ticket orders stands out in my brain too.

[Cowtipper]

A former first rounder, but no one ever really pinned "wunderkind" or "future savior" on him, so he was never really ever elevated to a point where he could let us down. I remember he was perpetually hurt during his first six years (five excluding his cup of coffee in 2016), averaging just 76 games per year from 2016 to 2021 and playing over 100 games just once. Was a pretty meh player those years, with no real definable offensive skills outside of drawing walks, as his power was just "okay," his average was just "okay," his speed was just "okay." But he was a consistent face on those teams nevertheless.

Then 2022 happened and somehow the second he decides to lay off focusing on walking all the time, his health improves enough that he becomes a 150+ game stalwart four years in a row (a very surprising and quiet accomplishment as I didn't realize he managed that until I looked him up), he developed a real solid power stroke and toward then end—and this was also somewhat unheralded—he became a very solid RBI guy, with two 90+ RBI years in a row. I also remember he'd sometimes randomly throw a clunker of a season in there, only to rebound the next year.

He was a quiet performer, a quiet compiler, the sort of guy that if he stays healthy until 40 we might look back and say "he really made it to 2,000 hits?"

He never seemed to fiery, his hustle down the line on even mundane walks was memorable, he was a consistent smiler, he was one of the few big leaguers from Wyoming* and I think the only Met.

I'm sure there's stuff I'm forgetting to remember here at 7:27 AM, but it'll come to me.

He'll be a fond memory overall. I love the faces that stick around a while and quietly perform and he was one of them. Longtime vets provide continuity and if McNeil goes, too, even though I've griped about McNeil, some of that continuity is shattered.

*Wyoming boasts quality not quantity, as other notable names include Mike Lansing, Tom Browning, Mike Devereaux, John Buck and Dick Ellsworth.

[The Hot Corner]

I always liked Nimmo. I appreciated his hustle. He was a solid player the past few years, but his defense has never been stellar and it seems to be slipping even after the move from CF to LF. His poor throwing arm was always a liability. With his contract and his gradual decline, it was likely viewed as necessary to move him sooner rather than later.

I will miss him and wish him well in Texas.

[Edgy MD]

His wife had sharp looking canine teeth.

[Edgy MD]

Mike Francesa, talking like an addled boxer, claims to have made journalistic inquiries and come away with the conclusion that the Mets traded Nimmo over a rift between him and Lindor regarding support for the president.

It sounds like it came 100% out of his ass, but a LOT of media outlets (many of them FOX-affiliated) are running with it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If so, my guess is that Nimmo was the Trumpster.

[MFS62]

If so, my guess is that Nimmo was the Trumpster.

 

And I'm guessing that so is Francessa.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

No guessing on Francesa. Like most things, he's not been shy about it.

[Edgy MD]

If so, my guess is that Nimmo was the Trumpster.

 

All things are possible in Francessa's assiverse.

[Gwreck]

People listen to Mike Francesa?

[Edgy MD]

This is on fire in the stupid parts of the Internet.

I would guess there's a 50% chance of the president mentioning it publickly this week.