Love Cohen’s desire to bring the best and brightest to help operate the franchise. Unlike prior ownership, I don’t get the impression that he is meddling in the day-to-day lineups or in transactions that are made by David Stearns. That’s the sign of an intelligent owner to let the baseball people do what they need to do and let him be concerned with coming up with the dollars to make it all happen.
I believe this year would be year five of his 3-5 year plan and bringing home a championship and he just might pull it off.
I don't pretend to know how billion-dollar organizations are run.
But I see this and I have to wonder how common it is for 5 high-ranking executives to be replaced within a 5-month period, especially when 4 of them were hired by Cohen. Did he not do a good-enough job vetting these execs in the first place?
The "differing perspectives" line sounds what like NFL folks trot out there when they fire a coach for not winning. Is the business side of things that bad for the Mets?
That’s certainly a fair analysis. I’m wondering how many of the people he is replacing he put in place in the first instance or if some were holdovers from the previous owners? Either way, much like eating a salary to get a player off the roster, I have no issue with him reshaping management.
I think there can be a number of reasonable explanations. It could be that he needed a team immediately after the acquisition to help him do due diligence on what was needed. Once that was done, he’s now hiring the next crew. Or that as Cohen is understanding the business and the opportunity that he has modified his initial vision and his first crew doesn’t support it. I would hope that they are all aligned around the vision of making the Mets a consistent contender. But Cohen’s vision for the development surrounding Citi could have created some fractures. I don’t see it as a sign of failure or incompetence necessarily although that could be the case. We may never know.
Like you, I am more interested in the team than in the business. Given his success elsewhere, I have the utmost confidence he’ll figure out how to make the business successful.
Love Cohen’s desire to bring the best and brightest to help operate the franchise. Unlike prior ownership, I don’t get the impression that he is meddling in the day-to-day lineups or in transactions that are made by David Stearns. That’s the sign of an intelligent owner to let the baseball people do what they need to do and let him be concerned with coming up with the dollars to make it all happen.
I believe this year would be year five of his 3-5 year plan and bringing home a championship and he just might pull it off.
I don't pretend to know how billion-dollar organizations are run.
But I see this and I have to wonder how common it is for 5 high-ranking executives to be replaced within a 5-month period, especially when 4 of them were hired by Cohen. Did he not do a good-enough job vetting these execs in the first place?
The "differing perspectives" line sounds what like NFL folks trot out there when they fire a coach for not winning. Is the business side of things that bad for the Mets?
That’s certainly a fair analysis. I’m wondering how many of the people he is replacing he put in place in the first instance or if some were holdovers from the previous owners? Either way, much like eating a salary to get a player off the roster, I have no issue with him reshaping management.
Four of the five were Cohen hires, with SVP/Finance Woll being the only holdover from the Wilpon years.
Well then he did a crappy job of hiring. I guess we’ll have flaws. 🤣🤷♂️
It's his money, and he knows how to run a successful business, so none of this bothers me. I care about Stearns, Mendoza and the team.
I think there can be a number of reasonable explanations. It could be that he needed a team immediately after the acquisition to help him do due diligence on what was needed. Once that was done, he’s now hiring the next crew. Or that as Cohen is understanding the business and the opportunity that he has modified his initial vision and his first crew doesn’t support it. I would hope that they are all aligned around the vision of making the Mets a consistent contender. But Cohen’s vision for the development surrounding Citi could have created some fractures. I don’t see it as a sign of failure or incompetence necessarily although that could be the case. We may never know.
Like you, I am more interested in the team than in the business. Given his success elsewhere, I have the utmost confidence he’ll figure out how to make the business successful.
Thanks for this level-headed response.