{"id":76730,"date":"2020-09-28T02:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wilpon-era-ends-with-loss-steve-cohen-on-horizon\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T02:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T23:26:57","slug":"wilpon-era-ends-with-loss-steve-cohen-on-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wilpon-era-ends-with-loss-steve-cohen-on-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"#Wilpon era ends with loss, Steve Cohen on horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Wilpon era ends with loss, Steve Cohen on horizon<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n WASHINGTON \u2014 Out with the old, in with the Cohen.<\/p>\n

Subtly, an era of Mets history likely ended Sunday with the team\u2019s 2020 season finale. In a probable last hurrah for the Fred Wilpon-Saul Katz ownership, the Mets finished the 60-game<\/a> sprint with a 15-5 loss to the Nationals, ending up tied for last in the NL East and absent from the postseason for a fourth straight year.<\/p>\n

Changes are coming with the expected app<\/a>roval by MLB owners, as early as October, of Steve Cohen\u2019s $2.4 billion purchase of the team. Already, Cohen last week announced his plan, should he receive the required 23 votes to complete the transaction, to install Sandy Alderson as team president. Alderson has spent the past two seasons as an adviser with the Athletics after previously serving as Mets general<\/a> manager.<\/p>\n

Cohen, a hedge fund billionaire worth an estimated $14 billion who grew up on Long Island rooting for the Mets, is expected to bring an aggressive approach to free agency and rebuilding the organization\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad that somebody who is a lifelong Mets fan is going to end up owning the team,\u201d Brandon Nimmo said. \u201cWe\u2019ve all heard the Sandy Alderson thing, and that\u2019s a familiar face, so I know he knows how to do the job and do it well. I think there\u2019s a lot of positives to build on with the news<\/a> that we\u2019ve heard, but I never like to count my chickens before they hatch.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt still has to be approved, but when we come to that time, I will do what they ask of me. But I think it\u2019s good to have somebody, a lifelong Mets fan who wants to own the team, and be a part of this and bring us all to the World Series<\/a>. That\u2019s where we all want to be. It\u2019s a lot of positives.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 18 full seasons of Wilpon-Katz control, following their buyout of co-owner Nelson Doubleday in 2002, the Mets missed the postseason 15 times. And they finished with a losing record in nine of the last 12 seasons.<\/p>\n

If Cohen is approved, Alderson\u2019s first significant decision will be whether to retain general manager Brodie Van Wagenen. By extension, manager Luis Rojas\u2019 job status would come into question.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all aware that we are in a transition right now,\u201d Rojas said. \u201cI had a great relationship with our ownership, being in this organization for 15 years. And now as the manager this year and knowing that we\u2019re in a transition, I can\u2019t wait for the process to unfold and just to engage the relationship with whatever happens.<\/p>\n