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The Mets have been devoid of offense for years now, and with both numerous injuries to key pieces and underperformance plaguing much of the roster, this team is looking for upgrades.

With the July 31st trade deadline looming, that could mean changes are on the horizon.

To get something, the Mets will have to give something, and one prospect the Mets could use in a package to improve is 22-year-old Double-A outfielder Brandon Nimmo.

Nimmo, coming off of his second career appearance in the All-Star Futures Game, is having a good season in Double-A Binghamton where he’s currently hitting .275/.347/.361 with 12 doubles, two triples, two home runs, 26 runs scored and 16 RBI in 64 games. He dealt with a knee injury earlier this season which sidelined him for over a month as well.

The Mets are reportedly willing to move a group of prospects which includes Nimmo in potential trades for an outfielder, whether that be Justin Upton, Carlos Gomez, Gerardo Parra or Jay Bruce, although it remains to be seen if a package centered around Nimmo is enough to acquire one of those players, as a rival executive recently told Marc Carig of Newsday someone like Nimmo could return an, “average” player back to the Mets.

I’ve followed Nimmo throughout his minor league career ever since the Mets selected him with the 13th overall pick in the 2011 MLB first-year player draft, the first draft pick under Sandy Alderson’s watch.

For sentimental reasons, it would be tough to see Nimmo go.

I always envisioned him coming from his small town in Wyoming–where his high school didn’t even have a baseball team–all the way to the major leagues and becoming a prominent player for the Mets. I’ve found myself rooting for Nimmo since he arrived, and seeing his blue-collar style of play on display at Citi Field.

However with the emergence of Michael Conforto, who should be able to contribute to the major league team at some point within the next year, as well as the Mets pressing need for offensive help in a season where they’re in the thick of a pennant race, it would make a lot of sense for them to include Nimmo in a potential deadline deal.

It has to be the right deal, however.

A trade involving Nimmo in exchange for one of the players listed above would make a lot of sense, as any of those players could have a potential large impact on this team. It remains to be seen if the Mets include Nimmo for a smaller piece, and whether or not that would be wise of this organization to pursue.

But if the Mets have remained stern on the fact that they do not want to trade any of their top four young pitchers, so for them to keep that quartet together and improve themselves offensively, players such as Nimmo are going to have to go.