COHEN: IT’S THE LEAST I CAN DO
Mets still without a team prez
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The Mets had no president on Presidents Day.
A successor to former team president Sandy Alderson has not yet been found. When Alderson announced his decision to step down from his role last fall, the plan was for him to remain in the position until a replacement was found. But the club has not yet replaced the 75-year-old executive and there isn’t a tremendous urgency to do so.
Instead, owner Steve Cohen has taken on a bigger role in the day-to-day business operations of the Mets. Alderson is still around as an advisor to Cohen, but the Mets feel the business side of the club is stable enough to go without a president right now.
“We are still looking,” Cohen said Monday at Clover Field. “Like I said, I have high standards. I don’t feel like I’m in any rush because the people in management, they are senior people that are very competent. So it’s got to be someone that I’m excited about bringing in. Meanwhile, I’m the CEO right now, so I don’t know if that’s good or bad.
“When we find the right person, I’ll hire him.”
Cohen, the founder of Point72 Asset Management, now travels from Stamford to Queens on Thursdays to take meetings with the club staff. A new president is expected to focus on driving revenue growth.
Alderson was the general manager from 2010-2018 and again briefly in 2021 after the Mets placed former interim GM Zack Scott on administrative leave following his arrest for a DWI. Alderson left the Mets in 2018 to undergo treatment for cancer but returned in 2020 to take over as Team President, replacing Saul Katz, who had been in the position since 1980.
Alderson’s son Bryn worked with the Mets until earlier this month as an assistant general manager and director of professional scouting. General manager Billy Eppler declined to comment on Bryn’s exit.