{"id":284290,"date":"2026-07-01T23:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284290\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:29:30","slug":"why-steve-cohen-is-extremely-worried-about-mets-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284290\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Steve Cohen is ‘extremely worried’ about Mets’ future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mets owner Steve Cohen was open and honest with The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman on Wednesday about the state of the franchise.<\/p>\n

Cohen explained that while Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns won\u2019t be going anywhere anytime soon<\/a>, he has been paying close attention to prospect development<\/a> as well as on-the-field results, and he isn\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely worried,\u201d Cohen said when asked about the future of his team. \u201cGood teams develop players and have a pipeline of players. When we looked at last year we were generally feeling pretty good about our farm system. We\u2019ve had regression in our farm system. Now I\u2019m told that \u2018development isn\u2019t linear.\u2019 It isn\u2019t like some straight line where everything goes up. That doesn\u2019t mean that some of these players will over time improve where they are today. When you\u2019re looking at things objectively and you\u2019re saying, \u2018How are we going to get better?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Cohen added that he\u2019s looking at his front office to be creative going forward, as their roster is handicapped by big contracts that could opt in for the 2027 season, including infielder Bo Bichette, outfielder Luis Robert Jr. and starting pitcher Clay Holmes.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween signings where we couldn\u2019t get the players on the field and some lack of performance from some of our younger players, it set us back. When you think about, OK, where is the help going to come from, it\u2019s really concerning to me. But development isn\u2019t linear,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cWe\u2019ll have to figure it out. (In) \u201827 looks tougher. Our budget is \u2013 depending on who opts in and who opts out, we could be close to $300 million already. It doesn\u2019t allow us a lot of flexibility. Do we see other players coming from the farm system to sort of buttress what we already have? Maybe, maybe not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sherman added that the Mets are in a tough spot, as he\u2019s written about for The Post on multiple occasions<\/a>, because they have a big financial commitment made to an underachieving team, and they don\u2019t know the rules next year, as the CBA expires after this season with many expecting a work stoppage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what the rules are going to be going forward in the new CBA. I may be restrained. In that case, I always say, \u2018Tell me the rules, and I\u2019ll operate under any construct,’\u201d Cohen said.<\/p>\n

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Heyman asked Cohen whether he intends to continue to spending big money to get them out of the hole, assuming there\u2019s no salary cap, and Cohen answered with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I make a good living. OK?\u201d Cohen responded to Heyman.<\/p>\n

The Mets currently have at least $229 million in projected payroll for next season, with a big chunk of that being Juan Soto, Bichette and Francisco Lindor.<\/p>\n

Cohen did not speculate whether he would be bringing in someone to take a look at the Mets processes as his worries continue to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets owner Steve Cohen was open and honest with The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19920,68,20,9,11,320,10,319,3929],"class_list":["post-284290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-david-stearns","tag-exclusive","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-steve-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}