After the Mets swept the Nationals in Thursday’s series finale, a game Boomer and Gio were in attendance for, Brandon Nimmo once again publicly expressed a desire to see his team add at the trade deadline.
It was far from the first time a Mets player made that desire known, and Boomer and Gio can’t remember a team being that publicly transparent about pressuring the front office to invest in their squad.
“I can’t remember in the last few years a team openly talk about the trade deadline like the Mets do,” Gio said. “Which makes me think that was one of the huge things in that team meeting that they’ve had.
“They all have seen it, and I’d like to think they all have used it for some sort of recipe for winning again. ‘People think we’re gonna be traded, they’re not giving us a chance.’ They’re using it as motivation, it seems like.”
Francisco Lindor has also expressed a desire for the team to be buyers when speaking with the media, and Thursday wasn’t the first time Nimmo did the same. It is clear that the team is sending the higher-ups a message as they move into a playoff spot.
“They’re winning,” Boomer said. “As long as they back up their words and say ‘Don’t be sellers,’ the more the fans hear that from the players, the harder it is I think for David Stearns to do what I think he’d like to do, but can’t do under these circumstances.”