The New York Mets' owner has finally spoken.
In an appearance on The New York Post podcast "The Show," Steve Cohen told Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman that Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns isn't going anywhere.
“I have a contract. It’s a five year contract. And we’re going to live that contract out," Cohen told The Post.
Stearns is in the third year of a five year contract and Cohen says his top executive is going to live out that deal.
However, the Mets are 208-202 under Stearns and are about to miss the postseason for the second straight season.
In year-one, the Mets went 89-73 and made it all the way to Game 6 of the NLCS, where they fell to the eventual World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
But since June of last season, when they were a league-best 45-24, the Mets have a losing record. The 2025 season saw an epic collapse where the Mets missed the playoffs by one game and finished 83-79.
The Mets are 36-50 this year and in dead last in the National League East division. They fired manager Carlos Mendoza last Friday and replaced him with vice president of player development Andy Green as interim skipper.
But the Mets' poor 2026 season is rooted in the offseason moves that Stearns made. These decisions included trading for Freddy Peralta (4.53 ERA), signing closer Devin Williams (4.13 ERA) and signing Bo Bichette (.678 OPS). He also brought in injury prone players such as Jorge Polanco (Achilles) and Luis Robert Jr. (back). Stearns let franchise cornerstone Pete Alonso walk in free agency and traded Brandon Nimmo to the Texas Rangers as well.
Stearns has had back-to-back bad offseasons that have led to the Mets missing out on the playoffs two years in a row. It's hard to not wonder whether Cohen will change his mind on Stearns if the Mets falter again in 2027. For now, Cohen claims Stearns will see out the rest of his five-year contract.
