Mets bring No. 4 prospect Nimmo to bigs

New York fans are about to find Nimmo. 

The Mets recalled their No. 4 prospect from Triple-A Las Vegas ahead of Saturday's game in Atlanta, giving Brandon Nimmo his first crack at the Major Leagues.

The 23-year-old outfielder was picked out of a Wyoming high school with the 13th overall choice of the 2011 Draft and has steadily climbed the Minor League ladder. This season, he's been putting together his best year yet. With the 51s in the Pacific Coast League, he batted .328/.409/.508 with 28 extra-base hits in 63 games.

Nimmo has been particularly hot this month. In 21 games in June, he's 33-for-85 (.388) with three homers, three triples, four doubles and 11 walks. Two of those dingers came in one game, on June 9 against Albuquerque.

"Jack [Voigt], my hitting coach, has been relentlessly working with me. He's been saying I can be better and have more power. We've been working to try to uncover it and make me more consistent. He's a very hard worker, which is great, because so am I," Nimmo said at the time.

The left-handed hitter had slugged three opposite-field long balls over two games at that point.

"All I do know is we have been working on just driving the ball better," he said. "It's a good feeling when you drive the ball out the other way. You think, 'I hit that one pretty good,' and then when it goes over the fence, it's a nice surprise because that wasn't happening earlier in the season."

Nimmo was the first Draft pick the Mets made under general manager Sandy Alderson. In a corresponding move, the club optioned outfielder Michael Conforto, who's struggled, to the 51s.

"We just felt that, look, at some point this is counterproductive and what we need to do is get him to Las Vegas, get his swing back and, hopefully, then get him back here within a relatively short period of time," Alderson told MLB.com of Conforto. "Frankly, we felt we put it off probably a little too long and maybe even to Michael's detriment."

It will be the first Triple-A playing time for Conforto, a 2014 first-round pick who jumped from Double-A Binghamton to the Majors last July.