Heading into the 2022 season, Brandon Nimmo was staring down free agency and a potential future away from the only organization he had ever known. Nimmo, who has been a member of the Mets since getting drafted 13th overall in the 2011 MLB Draft, was coming off an injury-plagued 2021. Despite posting a stellar 137 wRC+, a career-best .292 average, and a .400+ on-base percentage for the third time in four seasons, concerns about his health and his durability cast doubt upon his long-term future in New York.
Nimmo allayed those fears with a career-high 151 games in 2022 and further established himself as a strong center fielder despite the team’s signing of Starling Marte the previous winter.