The Mets shipping Brandon Nimmo to Texas four days before Thanksgiving isn’t the typical winter upgrade move. Trading your longest-tenured core player and a verified clubhouse leader coming off a very productive season at the plate wasn’t something that necessarily had to be done.

But by sending Nimmo to the Rangers in a swap for second baseman Marcus Semien, as multiple sources confirmed Sunday evening, the Mets revealed one important detail about their offseason strategy : They’re not kidding around when it comes to erasing the stench from last season’s playoff-fumbling debacle.

Zeroing in on Nimmo was a curious place to start. He was nearly everything the Mets could have wanted since Sandy Alderson’s front office picked him No. 13 overall in the 2011 draft. At his best, he was an

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