Brandon Nimmo doesn’t need All-Star nod to prove his value to Mets
NY Post
Here’s an oldie but a goodie:
This was Dec. 10, 2017, at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Fla. Word had just begun to percolate that the Yankees were about to rock the winter meetings but good: they were about to trade Starlin Castro, Jose Devers and Jorge Guzman in exchange for Giancarlo Stanton.
Stanton, who’d clubbed 59 homers and driven in 132 runs, who’d edged out Joey Votto for the 2017 National League MVP, would join a lineup that already featured Aaron Judge, who’d swatted 52 homers as a rookie in ’17. And the Marlins were picking up a huge chunk of the contract, too. It felt like “No, No Nanette” all over again.
Mets fans, of course, were taking this well.
The man who ran the Mets at the time, Sandy Alderson, wasn’t averse to wetting his finger and seeing how the social media winds were blowing. And when he did, amidst a gaggle of writers, he smiled.
“With Brandon Nimmo in right field,” he said, “we just didn’t feel that we had a need there.”
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.