Lynn Worthy of the Press & Sun-Bullentin spoke with Dicky Scott, the Mets Director of Player Development, about Brandon Nimmo and the possibility of the outfield prospect being considered for a promotion to Double A Binghamton. “He’s tearing it up down there right now.” Scott continues, “It’s the perfect scenario where you have guys forcing your hand. It almost leaves us no other response than to promote him.”
Nimmo entered Thursday ranked among the Florida State League leaders in several catergories which include, first in walks (45) and runs scored (49), second in on-base percentage (.464), third in batting average (.339), and fifth in hits (65),
“That’s what you want from your players. You want them to push and play well as opposed to playing an entire year and saying, ‘Well let’s send him to the next level just because, kind of a right of passage.’ That’s just not how it works,” says Scott.
New York Mets assistant general manager John Ricco recently spoke with the Wall Street Journal and said that the front office expects Nimmo to play a full season at every level, moving to Double-A in 2015 and then Triple-A the year after.
But Scott tells the Press & Sun-Bullentin that the plan is not set in stone.
“He’s been getting on base. He’s hitting. He’s walking. He’s gotten a lot stronger this year too,” says Scott. “He’s just really coming into his own. This would be a good step for him. I would expect to see him up here [Binghamton] at some point this year.”
Nimmo suffered a minor scare when he came up hobbling after running down a ball in center field during Tuesday’s game. He returned to the line-up on Wednesday and went 1 for 4, with a run scored and even stole his ninth base of the season, a sure sign that his ankle is just fine.
The B-Mets outfield is already packed with Darrell Ceciliani, Cory Vaughn, Travis Taijeron, Kyle Johnson and at times Dustin Lawley; so fitting Nimmo into the mix will be extremely difficult, but if he continues to dominate the Florida State League, the organization will have no choice but to reward him with a promotion, and let Pedro Lopez figure out the rest.
