Maybe you have to be in NYC to notice, but the Mets are a mess. Doesn't matter how much money Steve Cohen, the new owner, has brought from his hedge fund.
- Cohen is attached to team president Sandy Alderson, who organized Cohen's purchase of the Mets
- No one wants to be President of Baseball Operations, reporting to Alderson. Cohen offered the job to Billy Beane, who would rather be in the Bay Area. He offered the job to Theo Epstein, who asked for a percentage of the team. Cohen threw a fit at the arrogance, the insulting arrogance, of Epstein's asking for a small piece of ownership in return for Epstein's skill. There seem to have been other people who turned down the chance to work for Alderson and Cohen, but few names have floated to the top of the Gowanus Canal that is the Mets organization.
Reference to Gowanus Canal:
Even though most industrial tenants stopped using the Gowanus Canal in the middle of the 20th century, the pollution was never remedied. By the 1990s, it was recognized as one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal- In frustration, Cohen has asked his hedge fund and his friend, Chris Christie, to find a President of Baseball. Yes,
that Chris Christie.
- When the playoffs end, the Mets must decide what to do with Noah Syndegaard, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Javy Baez: all free agents. Jeff McNeill, Brandon Nimmo, Dominic Smith, and Pete Alonso are arb eligible. What should the Mets offer? Do they make a QO for Syndegaard and Conforto?
- What should the Mets do with their temporary GM, Zach Scott, who faces trial on DUI?
- Then, who manages the Mets for Scott or a GM to be named by a President of Baseball to be named later?
