All through this previous offseason, quite a few tales touched upon the alleged clubhouse issues that impacted the New York Mets as they suffered an epic collapse through the 2025 marketing campaign.
A kind of tales hinted that points between star shortstop Francisco Lindor and outfielder/homegrown expertise Brandon Nimmo performed a job in Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns buying and selling Nimmo to the Texas Rangers for second baseman Marcus Semien this previous fall.
Throughout a latest chat with MLB insider Jon Heyman of the New York Put up, Lindor tried to place the Nimmo-related rumors to mattress.
Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo are „brothers“ regardless of rumors
„Nimmo and I are brothers,“ Lindor insisted. „I like him. I like him. He’s an awesome man. He’s missed round right here — good teammate, good individual, good household man.“
Nimmo and Lindor picked up tabs for staff dinners through the Mets‘ 2024 season turnaround, and each have been as soon as considered as potential future captains for the membership. Nonetheless, New York sports activities radio legend Mike Francesa raised eyebrows and generated headlines when he reported in December 2025 that „the Nimmo-Lindor factor…was political“ and was associated to President Donald Trump.
Again in February, Nimmo stated that he felt Lindor „was nothing however sort, nothing however a tremendous teammate“ and „a tremendous chief.“
Jon Heyman provides robust message about Francisco Lindor-Brandon Nimmo rumors
„One individual within the know referred to as the rumor ‚bogus,'“ Heyman added about Francesa’s declare. „…The B.S. story was presupposed to be a cut up over politics, however a number of folks say they by no means heard both participant discuss politics across the staff.“
After all, that does not essentially imply that Lindor and Nimmo did not have some sort of falling out away from Citi Subject over political variations. As Francesa stated earlier than Christmas 2025, „crazier issues have occurred“ amongst teammates.
Despite the fact that the 2026 season is over every week previous, some proceed to marvel why Stearns selected to dismantle the core of the Mets‘ roster following the 2025 marketing campaign. His choices have understandably come into query amongst Mets followers after the membership entered Friday with a file of 3-4.
The Mets subsequent play on the San Francisco Giants (3-4) on Friday night.
