Getting the New York Mets to pick a direction was a challenge Steve Cohen inherited when he became the team’s majority owner in Nov. 2020, and still just can’t seem to shake.
The team has won between 75 and 86 games every year since 2018 with two exceptions: the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, and the 101-win campaign of 2022, a season that ended in the first round of the playoffs. The Mets are typically not good enough to contend for a championship and not bad enough to rebuild — a source of endless frustration for many.
Apparently fans aren’t alone in hoping the team will make a move fast. Cohen seemed to share this sentiment in a since-deleted post Wednesday night in response to a fan on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“All in the future, not much we can do until the trade deadline,” Cohen wrote.
This season is turning out to be like most of the others in the franchise’s history. At 19-23, the Mets entered Thursday’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies in fourth place in the National League East. Absent a dramatic surge up or down between now and the trade deadline, the Mets are in danger of falling into no-man’s land in the standings once again.
