Steve Cohen hears the complaints about his team and knows that the fans are waiting for a storm to come from ownership toward his underachieving, highest-payroll team ever.
But the Mets owner — in a nearly hour-long conversation with The Post on Saturday morning, about 10 hours after his clubto the Pirates — insisted that is not his style.
Cohen said he believes the biggest problem with a team that had fallen to 30-34 is inconsistent, underperforming starting pitching, which has overexposed and exhausted the bullpen. He insisted he believes in those starters and that he expects them to eventually pitch to their past performance, and the team’s success to follow that.
“I’m a different cat than other people. I commit to something, I do the best I can. I get it, everyone is so focused on the money. If I spent half the amount of money and we performed this way, I’d be as frustrated. It’s not a question of the money. I get it’s a great story: ‘They spend all this money and look at what they’re doing.’ I’ve always said it’s a bridge [until the farm system is better], right? There are no guarantees.
“Just as a sidelight, let’s say I’m running my hedge fund. It’s not always up and to the right. And it’s not always going great. When you have problems like this, when things are not working out the way you planned it, that’s when everyone’s got to get their heads together and try to figure out a way out of this. I know everyone’s thinking about it, working on it. I’m in constant communication with Billy.
“I don’t run my business that way. I don’t run any business that way. In my hedge fund, there are moments where we’ve drawn down really hard for whatever reasons — whether it’s markets, whether it’s something that we did wrong — it doesn’t mean I completely change or let people go. I don’t operate that way. These are challenges. This is management. This is the moment where you get to witness how your management deals with problems.
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