New Mets Owner Steve Cohen Has Some Blunt Tweets

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The San Diego Padres are going for it in their offseason, acquiring star pitchers Blake Snell and Yu Darvish. Across the country, new Mets owner Steve Cohen is looking on with understandable envy about the trades that Padres GM AJ Preller was able to make after beefing up the franchise's farm system. Cohen didn't mince words about the Mets being behind on this front:




There's some early era Mark Cuban vibes there, and Cohen got extra caustic with someone in his mentions who stated the obvious point that free agent spending doesn't mean you have to trade away players from the farm system:






Early indications are that this is going to be a wild ride with Cohen, a hedge fund titan who is the wealthiest owner in MLB and is clearly going to go about all this in a very public way.

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Ryan Glasspiegel grew up in Connecticut, graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and lives in Chicago. Before OutKick, he wrote for Sports Illustrated and The Big Lead. He enjoys expensive bourbon and cheap beer.