Brandon Nimmo, Kodai Senga, and Jeff McNeil are the biggest names among the players the Mets are making available on the trade market this winter, according to Jeff Passan. In an offseason preview that
includes updates on teams all around the league, Passan notes that those three players can be had in writing that “it’s not just Luisangel Acuña or Mark Vientos or Brett Baty.”
Drafted by the Mets out of high school in the first round all the way back in 2011, Nimmo has spent his entire professional career and adult life with the organization. The 32-year-old is coming off a season that saw him hit .262/.324/.436 with a career high 25 home runs. His 114 wRC+ was an improvement over the 108 that he put up in 2024, and his 3.0 fWAR was a slight increase from that year, as well. He has five years remaining on the eight-year, $162 million contract he signed with the team, and he has a full no-trade clause.
Senga was nothing short of a revelation in his first season with the Mets after signing with the team as he made the transition from Japan to Major League Baseball. That 2023 season saw him throw 166.1 innings with a 2.98 ERA and a 3.63 FIP, finished second in National League Rookie of the Year voting and seventh in Cy Young voting. He had a strong case for finishing higher than that in the Cy Young race, as his 4.5 bWAR ranked third in the National League that year among pitchers who received votes, while his ERA ranked second.
Since then, however, Senga has struggled to stay healthy enough to pitch. He barely pitched at all in 2024 before the Mets used him with disastrous results in the postseason, and he finished the 2025 season with just 113.1 innings pitched. His 3.02 ERA this year is rather remarkable given his 5.90 ERA in nine starts after returning from a hamstring injury. He spent the end of the season in Triple-A Syracuse. He has two years remaining on the five-year, $75 million contract that he signed with the Mets.
And McNeil, like Nimmo, has spent his entire career in the organization. A twelfth-round pick in 2013, he burst onto the major league scene in 2018 as a high-average hitter. His first three seasons were spectacular, as he earned his first All-Star appearance in 2019 while accumulating a .319/.383/.501 line—despite hitting just a total of 30 home runs—from his debut through the end of the abbreviated 2020 season. Since then, though, he’s been fairly inconsistent on a year-to-year basis.
Coming off a down 2021 season, McNeil bounced back to win the National League batting title in 2022 with a .326/.382/.454 line, and his 140 wRC+ that year was the second-best mark of his career. But 2023 and 2024 both saw him finish a few ticks below league average by wRC+ before he put up an above-average season in 2025, particularly before he really started feeling the effects of Thoraciac Outlet Syndrome. He ended this season with a 111 wRC+, and he has one year remaining on the four-year, $50 million deal that he signed ahead of the 2023 season.
