The Mets announced yesterday that outfield prospect Brandon Nimmo has a partial tendon tear in his left foot. He will be in a walking boot for for 10 days then will be reevaluated. He also received an anti-inflammatory injection from team doctors.

Nimmo is coming off a rough 2015 season in which he battled a sprained ACL in his knee and was hit in the face with a ball while playing for the Las Vegas 51′s. He played in a combined 104 games between the St. Lucie Mets, Binghamton Mets, and the 51′s, hitting .269/.362/.372 overall. He hit 16 doubles, four triples, five homeruns, and knocked in 25 runs.

The Mets drafted Nimmo as the 13th player overall in the 2011 draft out of Cheyenne Wyoming. He has hit .268/.381/.391 in 420 minor league games. He was recently ranked as the Mets number five prospect according to Baseball America.

He is expected to start the 2016 season at AAA with Las Vegas after hitting .264/.393/.418 there in 32 games to finish last season. He was not one of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 prospects that were revealed last night, he finished #71 on their 2015 list.

Brandon was atop the list in our recent review of the Top 5 Outfield Prospects in the Mets system.