Those same words, however, also could have applied to everyone fretting over the general state of baseball in the Big Apple.

“Things are not as bleak as they seem,” Nimmo said.

Two days later, things look much bleaker for the Mets — and they aren’t much better for the Yankees.

The Mets suffered their eighth loss in nine games Wednesday afternoon with a 4-1 setback to the Cleveland Guardians. New York also was nearly no-hit by Gavin Williams, who gave up a homer to Juan Soto with one out in the ninth inning.

The Mets are doing a bang-up job of making their 12 months as baseball’s best team look like a mirage.

They led the majors with 106 wins from June 12, 2024, through June 12, 2025, a span in which they made a Cinderella run to the National League Championship Series and seemed to completely change the vibes at Citi Field.

But the Mets are just 18-28 since June 13. The only teams with a worse record are the Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals — not exactly the company contenders want to keep. The Mets have gone from leading the NL East by 5 1/2 games to the last wild-card spot, just three games ahead of the Cincinnati Reds.

There’s nothing fluky about the Mets’ tailspin. They rank last in the majors with 182 runs since June 13 and have given up 242 runs, the third most behind only — you guessed it — the Rockies and Nationals.

President of baseball operations David Stearns had a solid trade deadline in which he acquired relievers Gregory Soto, Ryan Helsley and Tyler Rogers. But he didn’t add a starting pitcher to a frayed rotation. David Peterson, the losing pitcher Wednesday, is the only starter to pitch six innings since June 7. Stearns had little choice but to hope lineup anchors Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor, Nimmo and Soto would snap out of their slumps. Yet Lindor, Nimmo and Soto all have an OPS at least 40 points below their career marks, while Alonso — whose OPS of .859 is a shade better than his career mark of .855 — is batting .212 since June 13.

At least Stearns didn’t crow “mission accomplished” following the deadline. That unfortunate word selection in regard to improving his team belonged to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, who continues to act nothing like the executive who apprenticed under Gene Michael and had to deal with George Steinbrenner’s fury on an hourly basis.

The Yankees, who made it to the World Series last year, were 42-25 through June 12 — the third-best record in the majors. But they are just 19-29 since and are clinging to the final wild-card spot in the American League.

As with Stearns’ moves, Cashman’s actions to bolster the bullpen at the deadline did little to address his team’s fundamental flaws — literally, in this case.

The core of the relentless dynasty teams was built by Michael, who drafted and/or oversaw the development of Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera and Bernie Williams. The Core Five (why doesn’t Williams get the love?) played crisply, capitalized on any little mistake by the opposition and thrived in the New York spotlight.

Now the Yankees are filled with questionable fits who make the mistakes that other teams capitalize on.

In the last eight days alone, Austin Wells, a homegrown player, forgot the number of outs in the ninth inning and Jazz Chisholm Jr. got doubled off first base on a pop-up to second.

The duo received the most milquetoast of public rebukes from Aaron Boone, Cashman’s handpicked selection who has managed more games without winning a World Series than any Yankees skipper in history. This is a long way from Steinbrenner unloading on prospects Jim Beattie, Ken Clay and Bobby Meacham and calling future Hall of Famer Dave Winfield “Mr. May.”

Last Friday, the Yankees squandered a six-run lead against the Miami Marlins and suffered a 13-12 loss when their three new relievers — Jake Bird, David Bednar and Camilo Doval — combined to give up nine runs in the final 2 1/3 innings. While Bird is already in Triple-A, Bednar recorded a five-out save Wednesday because Devin Williams, whose New York tenure started poorly in April, might have pitched himself out of the closer’s role again by giving up six runs over 3 2/3 innings in his last four outings.

All this hand-wringing aside, the expanded playoffs and baseball’s built-in unpredictability — the Mets reached the NLCS despite opening 25-35 last year — means Nimmo’s optimism might prove prescient for at least one New York team.

And if not? Then New Yorkers will get to focus their attention on football season and two teams whose bleakness knows no limit — the Giants and Jets.