Steve Cohen (Rob Cuni/AMNY)
QUEENS, NY — The Mets’ current front-office model is not working as is with president of baseball operations David Stearns solely calling the shots, and team owner Steve Cohen is looking to change that this winter.
Appearing on SNY during Saturday’s matchup against the Philadelphia Phillies, Cohen admitted that he is “going to try to add certain voices into the front office that I think will be helpful.
“I’ve been working with the front office and I’ve identified some things that we can do better,” Cohen said. “They have really good processes up there, but I felt there were areas of improvement we can work on. That’s what we’ve been doing… I know David supports that, and I’m looking forward to, when we make those decisions, announcing them.”
Stearns built a roster that ultimately torpedoed the Mets for a second straight season, which once again will not include the postseason after a miracle run to the NLCS in 2024. His decision to let Pete Alonso walk, along with the acquisitions of Freddy Peralta, Luis Robert Jr., Marcus Semien, and Bo Bichette, backfired spectacularly. New York sits in last place in the National League with seven games to play.
Cohen’s candor certainly is not a good look for Stearns, who was made the highest POBO in Major League Baseball, and failed to put together a contending team despite the unlimited pockets of the owner. It could certainly be construed that Cohen was alluding to hiring a general manager to work under Stearns. That is not necessarily the case.
“It doesn’t have to be a GM,” he said. “It could be other ways to support David and the front office, and I think the whole point is to get other opinions in the front office and people who are pretty good at evaluating talent, or people who have been in those positions before in the front office, in high positions in the front office, to help David out and help the team out to get different points of view.”
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