Ho ho ho! Nimmo gets in the spirit

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The Mets’ 2011 first-round Draft pick, Brandon Nimmo, made his big league debut in Atlanta last June, and he should again play a role in the outfield in ’17. Here’s a holiday-themed Q&A with the gregarious rookie, who shares how he spends his Christmas in and around snowy Wyoming:

MLB.com: What was a typical Christmas like for you growing up?

Brandon Nimmo: We would always go to a town called La Junta, Colo., on Christmas Eve and spend that with my grandparents — my dad’s parents. We would go and enjoy Christmas Eve there, and then for Christmas Day, we would normally come back and spend that with just my immediate family — my brother and my sister in Cheyenne.

Now we’ve come up with a tradition where we like to go up to Happy Jack in Wyoming. It’s an old abandoned ski area. I don’t do it anymore, but everybody would hop on inner tubes or sleds and take them down the ski jump. Even though I can’t do that anymore, I’ll go up and have fun, so now we do that on Christmas Day in the afternoon.

MLB.com: You recently became engaged. Have you been spending recent holidays with your fiancée?

Nimmo: Yeah, for the past two years, she’s been coming out to Wyoming. This year, we’re all going to meet in Omaha, Neb., because my brother’s on call for work, so we’re going to take Christmas to him. It’ll be a new tradition. But the premise of it all is to get the family …

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