Looks like Cohen cleared another hurdle and got the vote in his favor:
Latest On Steve Cohen, Mets
By
Connor Byrne | October 20, 2020 at 3:15pm CDT
Prospective owner Steve Cohen is getting closer to taking over the Mets from the beleaguered Fred Wilpon-Jeff Wilpon tandem. Major League Baseball’s eight-person Ownership Committee recently voted in favor of Cohen, 7-1,
Scott Soshnick and Barry M. Bloom of Sportico report. Cohen still has to receive approval from 23 of the league’s 30 owners in order to assume the Mets’ reins, but Soshnick and Bloom suggest that’s a formality.
As someone who currently owns 8 percent of the Mets, Cohen’s already known around the league. He
agreed in mid-September to purchase 95 percent of the club for around $2.475 billion, which came after a potential agreement between Cohen and the Wilpons fell through last winter. Since then, though, the Wilpons have endured substantial losses as a result of the coronavirus-shortened season with no fans in attendance, so they became more eager to part with the franchise.
Considering his net worth comes in north of $14 billion, Mets fans are understandably excited to see Cohen on the verge of leading the organization. And if Cohen does receive the necessary approval to succeed the Wilpons in the coming weeks, it won’t be a surprise to see the team make some splashy moves in the offseason after missing the playoffs for the fourth year in a row in 2020. Any of the game’s best pending free agents (
Trevor Bauer, J.T. Realmuto and
DJ LeMahieu, to name a few) could conceivably wind up on the Cohen-led Mets’ radar over the winter.
I won't believe the Wilpons are gone until I see them out. They will still own SNY though right? So they will still be whining in the back round as usual. Wilpons..........smh
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