Nimmo shrugs off ASG miss

Brandon Nimmo treated Sunday’s All-Star Game disappointment predictably — by looking at the bright side. He admittedly was hoping to be included, but was also pleased to even be part of the discussion.

“That’s encouraging because of where I started this year. I was supposed to be a bench player,” Nimmo said before the Mets split a doubleheader with the Phillies, winning 4-3 in 10 innings before losing 3-1, at Citi Field on Monday. “So to even be in these All-Star conversations, I should be really proud of that and really happy about that.”

Nimmo has been one of the Mets’ lone bright spots in this dismal season, the team leader in OPS (.884) and onbase percentage (.382). But he has tailed off of late, with just six hits in his past 43 at-bats that coincided with him missing a few games after getting hit in the right pinkie finger.

Todd Frazier’s forgettable first season in Queens hit yet another speed bump Monday. The Mets’ third baseman was placed on the disabled list with a left rib cage muscle strain, his second time on the shelf in two months after not being put on the DL during the first seven years of his major league career.

“It’s something I never thought would happen,” said Frazier, who previously missed 24 games with a strained left hamstring.

Jose Reyes started both games at third base. He went hitless in five at-bats, but Callaway said Reyes is likely to see a lot of time there moving forward.

“I think the experience, [being a] switch hitter, I think he’s been playing pretty good baseball when we put him in there,” Callaway said of Reyes.

Jason Vargas threw six shutout innings, struck out nine and allowed one hit for Single-A Brooklyn in a 2-1 loss to Staten Island on Monday night in his rehabilitation start. The left-hander threw a simulated game last week as he works his way back from a strained right calf.