Brandon Nimmo always stopped.

Not on the field, where he was known for sprinting to first base after being walked. And certainly not when his plantar fasciitis flared up, or when a recurring neck injury made it so he couldn’t even turn his head toward reporters during postgame interviews.

But he stopped on the backfields at the Mets spring training complex in Port St. Lucie, before games at Citi Field, and late into the night near the player’s parking lot – for years, signing autographs in a beater of a car that he was too loyal to get rid of.

There were plenty of baseball reasons for the trade – the one that sent the homegrown Met to the Rangers in exchange for Marcus Semien . But even though Nimmo chose to waive his no-trade clause , the immediate aftermath was one of tribute – o

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