Stearns' First Strike: Nimmo OUT, Semien IN! Core Beheaded! | BT & Sal
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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BT & Sal dissect the shocking, confirmed trade of Brandon Nimmo to the Texas Rangers for Marcus Semien. Sal hails the trade as an "awesome move," proving the Mets are finally ready to build the right way and focus on run prevention, given Nimmo's declining defense, poor arm, and lower-extremity injuries. BT argues that the move was necessary to upgrade the defense and frees up the DH spot, making it mandatory for the Mets to now re-sign Pete Alonso to replace the lost offensive power.
They debate the trade's immediate impact (Nimmo for Semien is a defensive upgrade at second base, setting up Jeff McNeil to be traded) and what the next move must be: acquiring a top outfielder (Bellinger or Tucker) to fill Nimmo's spot. The hosts praise David Stearns' "gutsy, bold" decision to move past the core's sentimental value.
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| 0:32.1 | Maybe Sonny, before we get to the baseball news here with Nimmo, maybe Sonny was talking, in fact, BT, about three years and 11 wins. |
| 0:38.4 | That's what the Giants have had now over the last three years. Six wins in year two with Shane and Daible. Three wins in year and then two wins this year. So you add it up. That's where you get his 11 from. Anyway, more on the football when we, you know, get back to the phones here, 888808-108. 101. The BT and South Show on the fan is presented by your Tri-State Cadillac dealers. |
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| 0:54.5 | by your tri-state Cadillac dealers, Cadillac the official luxury vehicle of the New York Giants, the New York Mets, the first team to make a major move. You know, we talked about it. I know you remember, I brought this up in season last year about the Mets needing to explore trading Brandon Nimmo. There was a lot of thought that it wasn't realistic, whether it be then |
| 1:13.2 | or now. Well, it is. It's official. The Mets just announced it in a press release. Brandon Nimmo is a Texas Ranger, Marcus Simeon, a New York Mets. I think it's an awesome move by the Mets. I really do. To me, it tells me that they are finally ready to build this thing the right way. You know, a lot of you, and it goes back even before last year, you know, you talking about the core and us talking about the core. Like, they just had to change things. Had it changed things. You know, Nimmo, you're going to appreciate what he was. But that doesn't hang banners, man. It just doesn't. |
| 1:44.9 | I mean, that's great. Sentimentality works sometimes. And when that player is somebody that's really important to you, which I get, I know that Nimo is, and I respect that, and I'm sensitive to it. But I think sometimes, and it's happened with me as well with other players that I care about that deeply. same with you guys like with Pete, where there's a deficiency or two, and you allow how you feel about that person |
| 2:06.3 | to overshadow the bottom line impact the player has on the team. And Brandon Nimmo, the last |
| 2:12.1 | couple of years, has had some aggravating, alarming, lower extremity injuries, planter fasciitis, things that have robbed him. |
| 2:20.9 | Not that he ever really stole bases anyway, but robbed him of a little speed in the outfield. |
| 2:24.8 | He's got one of the worst arms, if not the worst arm, of any left fielder in baseball. |
| 2:29.2 | And I don't think he's going to age very well. |
| 2:31.0 | So I give the Mets a ton of credit. |
| 2:33.5 | It's a very proactive, very |
| 2:35.5 | forceful forward move. And the other thing this means is they're doing a lot more. |
| 2:40.9 | Yeah, I mean, this is the first of many moves. But to get started, they had to make a change |
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