Nimmo Embraces New Chapter with Rangers

ARLINGTON — Brandon Nimmo knows he could have been a lifelong Met.

He knows there could have been a chance — if he kept producing at a high level — that his number was in the rafters at Citi field alongside David Wright’s.Nimmo owns a house in Port St. Lucie, Fla., where the Mets have their Spring Training home. He’s never even known another association.

So when David Stearns asked if Nimmo would waive his no-trade clause to finalize a deal that would send him to Texas, he knew he had some thinking to do.

Stearns took the possibility of a trade to Nimmo on Thursday. At the time, his no-trade clause was the only thing standing in the way of its completion. By Sunday night, he was a Texas Ranger.

“It definitely took me as a shock,” Nimmo said. “We had kind of built this life centered around that we were going to be New York Mets until the very end. … I needed to know that the Rangers were committed to trying to win a World series.That this wasn’t a rebuild that I was coming into. That this was somewhere that I was extremely wanted and was somewhere that I felt like we would be competing for World Series titles,year in and year out. [Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young] made that abund