New Mets owner Steve Cohen expressed excitement for the 2021 MLB season on Twitter on Christmas Eve. While the 2020 season was difficult, Cohen hopes to build a sustainable winning franchise through developing young talent in the farm system, though he is still pursuing top free agents like Springer and Bauer. Cohen says making big free agent signings every year is not a sustainable long-term strategy and that performance tends to decline for players in their early 30s.

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Steve Cohen is ready to turn the page on 2020.
While it’s been a brutal year, Mets fans have taken solace in Cohen becoming the team’s new owner — a fan himself who is
as excited as anyone to get the new year and MLB season started.
“Happy Holidays to all . Bring on Mets baseball in 2021,” Cohen wrote on Twitter on Christmas Eve.
The 2021 Mets will look di erent than the team that went 26-34 and missed the playo s during this year’s shortened MLB
season. Along with the return of Sandy Alderson and the hire of new general manager Jared Porter, the Mets have made
two key free-agent signings thus far in catcher James McCann and reliever Trevor May.
They haven’t yet splashed some of Cohen’s billions on one of the top-tier free agents like George Springer and Trevor
Bauer, though they’re in the hunt for both. Cohen said this week he is focused on a long-term approach rather than a quick
x.
“As a fan they want me to sign everybody tomorrow, but is that a sustainable strategy?” Cohen said Wednesday in a Q&A
session hosted by Howie Rose. “Ultimately you want to develop talent. You want to develop your farm system. To me that is
the most sustainable way to create a winning team year in and year out. Yes, you can go buy players, but you buy players
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2. that are in their 30s potentially and we know there’s plenty of data that suggests performance of players tends to decline
once they are in their early 30s.”
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