Steve Cohen was absolutely right about one thing: He most certainly did tip his hand.
On June 28, he most certainly did say, “All is not lost, but it’s getting late. I’m preparing my management team for all possibilities. If they don’t get better, we have decisions to make at the trade deadline.”
He said all this impassively, almost aloofly. It is a reminder that though Steve Cohen may be in his 63rd year of rooting for the Mets, most of those years he has primarily been a fan of Steve Cohen, and a fan of the business interests that have allowed him to accumulate a fortune in the neighborhood of $20 billion.
Mets fans woke up salty on Wednesday, and even the ones who in their heads acknowledged the team might have done the prudent thing by evacuating so many players couldn’t help but feel the heartburn of reality that occurs— whether that happens after 100 games, after 162 games, or at the end of October.
He tried to reign in — if not walk back — some of the seismic spin that had accompanied some of general manager Billy Eppler’s comments the past few days, and just about all of Max Scherzer’s.“The expectations were really high this year,” Cohen said. “My guess is next year they’ll be a little lower. But I can’t speak to the offseason. I’m opportunistic. I don’t want to roll a team out there we’ll be embarrassed by.
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