FLUSHING, NY, November 24, 2025 – The New York Mets today announced that the team has acquired INF Marcus Semien from the Texas Rangers in exchange for OF Brandon Nimmo and cash considerations.
Semien, 35, owns a lifetime .253/.321/.435 slashline with 253 home runs and 801 RBI in 13 Major League seasons with the Rangers, Athletics, White Sox and Blue Jays. The infielder was selected to the American League All-Star team three times in his career (2021, 2023-24), won two Gold Gloves (2021 and 2025), earned the Silver Slugger twice (2021, 2023) and finished in the top three in AL MVP voting (2019, 2021, 2023). He has posted a career 49.2 bWAR, the 11th-highest total in the majors since he entered the league in 2013.
The versatile defender appeared in 127 games for the Rangers last year and won his second career Gold Glove after recording +7 outs above average per Statcast, five defensive runs saved per FanGraphs and a career-best .996 fielding percentage.
He posted a .230/.305/.364 slashline with 16 doubles, one triple, 15 homers, 62 RBI and 11 steals. He missed the remainder of the 2025 season after he fouled a ball off the top of his foot in August.
Semien led the American League in runs scored (122) and hits (185) while hitting 40 doubles, 29 homers and 100 RBI in 162 games with Texas in 2023. Has hit 20 or more home runs and scored 100 or more runs in four of the last five years.
The California native has appeared in 26 career Postseason games, posting a .270/.336/.423 slashline with eight extra-base hits and 14 RBI. The right-handed hitter was originally selected in the sixth round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft from the University of California, Berkley.
Nimmo was selected by the Mets with the 13th overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft out of East High School in Cheyenne, WY. He played 10 seasons with the Mets, posting a .262/.364/.438 slashline with 135 home runs and 463 RBI. He owns the sixth-highest OBP (min. 3,000 PA) in Mets history (.364) and ranks eighth in OPS (.802). In addition, he ranks fifth in walks (524) and triples (32), sixth in runs (593), ninth in home runs (135), 10th in doubles (188), 11th in games (1066) and 12th in hits (974) and RBI (463).
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