#No better time for Jacob deGrom’s return to Mets

#No better time for Jacob deGrom’s return to Mets

“#No better time for Jacob deGrom’s return to Mets” The seas are becoming stormy, and the Mets are in danger of being thrown overboard off Steve Cohen’s first-place boat. The GM has a phone attached to his ear every waking minute with a prospective trade partner, while the manager on Monday night asked James McCann…

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#Mets’ Steve Cohen era officially gets underway

#Mets’ Steve Cohen era officially gets underway

“#Mets’ Steve Cohen era officially gets underway” PHILADELPHIA — So if you are a Mets fan, there is a 99.934 percent chance that you belong to a text thread alongside a few of your other true-believer friends. There is actually a 98.4322257 percent chance (according to Elias Sports Bureau) that you belong to more than…

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#‘We’re going to make the playoffs’

#‘We’re going to make the playoffs’

“#‘We’re going to make the playoffs’” PHILADELPHIA — Steve Cohen aims high – reasonably high, though – with his first Mets team. “I’m not going to predict a World Series out of the gate,” the Mets’ new owner said Monday in a Zoom news conference, hours before his club finally kicked off its 2021 season…

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#Overhauled Mets start season with target on backs

#Overhauled Mets start season with target on backs

“#Overhauled Mets start season with target on backs” The Mets boarded busses outside Nationals Park on Sept. 27 as a battered team that had just completed a last-place, pandemic-shortened season. Changes were coming, with Steve Cohen’s purchase of the team and Sandy Alderson’s return to oversee the entire organization, including the front office. Nearly half…

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#Steve Cohen bummed over Mets’ Trevor Bauer miss

#Steve Cohen bummed over Mets’ Trevor Bauer miss

“#Steve Cohen bummed over Mets’ Trevor Bauer miss” If the Mets can cross the finish line with Francisco Lindor on a $300-million-plus extension, the shortstop will become the first nine-figure player commitment of the Steve Cohen Era. Yet if the Mets’ new owner had his way, that milestone already would be reached…with Trevor Bauer. In…

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#The top 15 hedge fund managers made B in 2020

#The top 15 hedge fund managers made $23B in 2020

“#The top 15 hedge fund managers made $23B in 2020” The year 2020 was one to forget, unless you were a billionaire hedge fund manager. In the midst of record unemployment, spiraling coronavirus deaths and widespread social and political unrest, the top 15 hedge fund managers added a whopping $23.2 billion to their already extensive…

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