(O’Connor) En tant que sauveur des Mets, Steve Cohen a été aussi décevant que son équipe
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Par iheartsunny
Baseball
(O’Connor) En tant que sauveur des Mets, Steve Cohen a été aussi décevant que son équipe
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Par iheartsunny
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I often wonder if any of us would do anything differently. He’s obviously a huge fan of the team with a bunch of fuck you money. I’d be throwing a ton of money around too if i owned the Yankees but as big a fan as i am, I’d probably be a terrible owner lol
he’s been okay and he isn’t a wilpon
This didn’t read as Cohen being a disappointment. It read as his GM hires not being good. I think every fan in the league would take an owner like Cohen as described in this article. He’s described as open pockets, patient, not meddling, and not cutthroat. He just can’t find a GM to get the job done.
Imo his biggest sin is putting his faith in dumb people. I don’t think he put a gun to Stearns head and told him to give Frankie Montas and Sean Manaea a combined 100 million dollars.
Everything I’ve read about the players who’ve left indicate they were pretty happy with the environment he’s cultivated.
I mean what else would you have him do lmao. 10/10, I would rather have an owner who shells out 400 mil for a roster than someone like Jerry Riensdorf.
Idk what Cohen did wrong. He’s doing what you want a team owner to do and clearly investing more than any other owner in the team’s success. Not really his fault the people in place have gone wrong
If anything Cohen got them Soto. His biggest « failures » have been his GM hiring and actually letting them do their job.
The worst thing that you should take from this is that he has to do more. He needs to get the hiring of personnel right, but he’s doing better than a lot of owners by letting the baseball people do their jobs.
I’ll say this about Steve Cohen. I am really stating to question if he’s going to be the owner to get us to a WS. We went through the Billy Eppler disaster and thought that the new vision of the team under David Stearns would be the way forward and now that is a disaster.
I said years ago that if the Stearns experiment fails like the Eppler experiment did, my confidence in Cohen as the owner would take a massive hit. It’s getting close now unfortunately.
this guy has bent over sdrawckab for bring the Mets a title.. even going toe to toe with the LAD in payroll
he’s had a run of bad luck with certain FA who hadn’t worked out, and his upper mgmnt hires haven’t exactly been gold either.. gotta do better there, for real
whatever it is though, the Mets are extremely blessed in one area with this guy– he will pull that FA slot lever as many times as he has to to hit the jackpot
And the biggest positive that Mets fans can draw on is the fact that this guy is no Wilpon
Prokohorov version 2
There’ll be another in like 15 years, it’s too irresistible for these egomaniac billionaires
He spends money it’s really all you can ask. But with no team culture he just gets bag chasers who don’t care win or lose getting paid and living in New York. Not a bad life.
There is literally nothing the National media craves more than the Mets being bad. Look at how much content they can pump out on a daily basis
* Frankie Montas: $17M – not in uniform.
* Nimmo: $6M not in uniform.
* McNeil: $5.75M not in uniform
* AJ Minter $11M (2/22). That is a setup man rate and he threw 11 inning last year and has been out with a lat injury. Dead money even if he comes back and provides 30-40 innings that is waste.
* Luke Weaver (2/22) another guy at a setup rate. Looks no where near the guy from last year and not high leverage.
* Devin Williams (3/42) Closer rate with a 2.500 WHIP through 8 innings. The swing and miss is there but the walk rate has nearly doubled and he’s getting barreled when contact is made.
* Sean Manaea (3/75). I understand he was signed off a good year but metrically he was average and now it’s much worse. There has been injuries but he is making the same rate as Eovaldi, Gray, Nola, Seth Lugo, Michael King, yet he’s a long reliever or back of the rotation starter. He should not be making $25M a season.
* Senga (5/75) The first year was good, injuries the other years. Hasn’t been it’s value.
* Jorge Polanco: 2/40. While it is too soon to call this a failure, his last full seasons were 2021 and 2025. He is a 115 wRC+ hitter most years and is a lot for what they are getting. Not an awful contract but not a great value.
* Marcus Semien (3/72 remaining on contract). Since 2023, he’s been a league average hitter. He is a 3-4 WAR player on defense but when the offense looks this bad, what’s the point? $24 million a season is a lot for just defense.
* Luis Robert ($20 million in a final arb year). They traded for that money but it’s not 2023.
That’s already $29 million of guys that don’t play for the Mets.
That is $39 million on the bullpen that is empty.
$40M in rotation for Manaea and Senga
$63M in position players that are over paid.
Of what I’ve listed, that is **$171 million** in under achieving, overpaid, or not in uniform bullshit. This doesn’t include Bichette, Lindor, or Soto all of which are $110 million if going off of payroll and not tax. It is maybe a dozen guys right there at $281 million. Baseball rosters have 26 guys.
Owners should spend but this is crap.
A disappointment in comparison to what?
You will not find a single Mets fan begging for the return of the Wilpons. They ran the club like a mid-market team, while not so-secretly pining that they were 50 years too late to own the Brooklyn Dodgers, and viewed owning the Mets as a consolation prize.
Cohen comes off like he gives a shit without letting his ego interfere in the day-to-day operations, and is willing to spend. That’s all you can really ask for out of an owner.
Look, I hate the Mets as much as any other NL East fan, but blaming Cohen is idiotic. He does exactly what anyone would want from their owner: pour stupid amounts of money into the team and delegate decision making to the professionals.
It hasnt worked out so far, but there are actual shitty owners out there who should be criticized. Cohen is at least putting an honest effort into making a good team.
You can’t run a New York team like you can the Brewers. Stearns has had so many diminishing returns so far.
The dodgers are what they are because, top to bottom, they have an immensely strong system.
If we had a cap and the dodgers had their payroll cut in half, they’d still be a great team.
The Mets are spending money but it just doesn’t appear they spend money in the right places. They simply don’t have the kind of development that other teams do.