Mets owner Steve Cohen opens up about payroll

Mets owner Steve Cohen opens up about payroll: ‘Pretty hefty’ — and growing
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Mets owner Steve Cohen once again revealed that he’d eventually like to see his team stay below the “Cohen Tax.”
Mets owner Steve Cohen would like to be more measured in his spending
After turning the New York Mets into baseball’s biggest spender, owner Steve Cohen would like to see his team build more economically through its farm system.
Is Steve Cohen right to call out Mets fans over poor 2024 attendance?
It's important to take Cohen's statements with a grain of salt. While he is (mostly) correct that the Mets finished 17th in average home attendance during the 2024 season (29,484 fans per game), the team was well on its way to the postseason by the series he referenced in his example.
Mets’ Steve Cohen still spending despite tax threshold named after him: ‘It always seems like ballplayers are more expensive than I think’
Cohen would like to get under that threshold at some point, but not now. Not when the Mets have momentum and not when they have a lineup deep enough to compete with the one out west. The Mets simply aren’t ready to compete with a lower payroll yet. They don’t have a farm system regularly churning out big-league players.
Mets’ Steve Cohen had ‘blown through self-imposed 2025 spending limits
New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s desire for a World Series title outweighs his wish to one day get beneath Major League Baseball’s “Cohen tax,” which is a 110% penalty for every dollar spent after surpassing the league’s fourth luxury tax threshold.
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