Many around Major League Baseball have coined the league's new fourth CBT tier, "The Steve Cohen Tax," and the Mets owner seems ready to embrace that label.
"I know there's a name for it, they call it the Cohen tax," Cohen said at Mets spring training camp on Sunday. "Whatever. The way I describe is it's better than a bridge being named after you or something like that."
What does that embracing mean for the Mets? More upgrades could be coming, even after trading for quality starter Chris Bassitt on Saturday. Cohen says he wouldn't be surprised if his team crosses that Cohen Tax before the regular season begins.
"We probably will and I wouldn't be surprised," Cohen said. "Hard to say how much.
"Listen, $290 million is a lot of money to spend overall. So like I said before, I'm OK with it and I'm willing to live with it and we'll leave it with that."
Cohen has already splurged this offseason, signing Max Scherzer to a record deal after agreeing to contracts with Starling Marte, Eduardo Escobar, and Mark Canha. The team has a payroll of roughly $276 million at the moment and may not be done reloading, but even Cohen, the richest owner in baseball by nearly $5 billion, knows that all of that spending won't matter unless it translates to winning.
"It all looks good on paper," Cohen said. "Hard to know what's going to happen in real life. I'm looking forward to a great season and I think we're going to be really competitive and we'll see what happens."
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