{"id":472574,"date":"2026-02-16T20:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:46:07","slug":"i-felt-what-the-fans-felt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472574\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I felt what the fans felt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Mets owner Steve Cohen said that he was \u201c\u2018absolutely annoyed\u2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/29\/mets-owner-steve-cohen-apologizes-to-fans-the-result-was-unacceptable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/29\/mets-owner-steve-cohen-apologizes-to-fans-the-result-was-unacceptable\/\">last season\u2019s failures<\/a>,\u201d adding that while their roster overhaul \u201cmay have been difficult, he trusted [President of Baseball Operations] David Stearns\u2019 vision and was excited about their current crop.\u201d Cohen said that he \u201cfelt a measure of anxiety after the Mets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/11\/cohen-assures-mets-bigger-picture-in-offseason-plans-after-losing-star-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/11\/cohen-assures-mets-bigger-picture-in-offseason-plans-after-losing-star-players\/\">parted ways with their core<\/a> without having their replacements lined up.\u201d Cohen: \u201cI felt what the fans felt. The worst part was these players left, and yet we hadn\u2019t figured out who was going to fill those positions. \u2026 I feel really good about what we accomplished\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/baseball\/mets\/steve-cohen-talks-ezrp1fff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/baseball\/mets\/steve-cohen-talks-ezrp1fff\">NEWSDAY 2\/16<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Cohen when asked if he feels the Mets closed the gap with the Dodgers said, \u201cThey\u2019re formidable, they have the ability to spend &#8212; so do I, by the way.\u201d Cohen insisted that he is \u201csolely focused on the 2026 season, and isn\u2019t worried about what may come in 2027.\u201d As far as where he stands on a potential salary floor\/cap, Cohen said, \u201cI\u2019m listening to all of the arguments, but I\u2019ve always been a league-first owner.\u201d He added, \u201cI haven\u2019t made up my mind yet, but we\u2019ll see where it goes &#8212; sometimes I put the league\u2019s interest above my own interest\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/articles\/steve-cohen-discusses-mets-offseason-of-change-dodgers-goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/articles\/steve-cohen-discusses-mets-offseason-of-change-dodgers-goals\">SNY.tv, 2\/16<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets owner Steve Cohen said that he was \u201c\u2018absolutely annoyed\u2019 by last season\u2019s failures,\u201d adding that while their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,6856,363,99],"class_list":["post-472574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-leadership","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}