Steve Cohen will answer for the Mets’ spiral.
The Mets, the most expensive team in MLB’s history, enter play Tuesday a season-worst eight games under .500.
The disappointments are significant — beginning with Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, two future Hall of Famers who have been pedestrian — and numerous — from underperforming offensive stars to underwhelming rotation depth to a below-average bullpen that has been particularly damaging recently. Will the Mets sell at the deadline? Will manager Buck Showalter last the entire season? Are shakeups coming?“You will get it from me straight.”Robert Sabo for NY Post
Thus far, the third season of Cohen’s reign has been a bust, and there is speculation he cannot be happy with his return on investment.“When things get really bad, I’m not going to blow up,”“I don’t think it solves anything, other than it gives people a one-day story. But it doesn’t really solve anything. There’s plenty of blame to go around from a performance point of view. So blowing up, I’m not sure it solves anything. It would demonstrate, ‘Oh, he really cares. He’s one of us.
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