


Billy Eppler and Buck Showalter aren’t going anywhere — at least for the rest of the 2023 season.
In a press conference Wednesday before the Mets played the Brewers, Cohen said that his general manager and manager will “absolutely” remain in their positions through the end of the season — even with the Mets spiraling at 36-43.
Cohen was asked multiple times about his confidence level in, and support for, the current management.
The owner reiterated that he’s a “patient guy” and believes that’s the right approach for the organization.

“Everybody wants a headline,” Cohen said. “Everybody wants, ‘Fire this person. Fire that person.’ But I don’t see that as a way to operate. If you want to attract good people to this organization, the worst thing you can do is be impulsive and win the headline for the day. … You’re not gonna attract the best talent because they’re not gonna want to work for somebody who has a short fuse.”
Instead, Cohen distributed the blame, accepting some himself, and said that it’s on the players to ultimately fix their current trajectory.
“We’ll see where it goes. It’s on the players. They’re veterans, they’ve been there before,” he said. “These are players that have done it and we’ll see if they can get their act together and string together some wins.
“I can’t pitch and I can’t hit. That’s the way it goes. We’re hoping for the best.”


He called it “strange” and “weird” that the current Mets have underperformed, given the lineup that they assembled.
But “the reality is the reality,” Cohen said.
“Listen, ultimately, for some reason, we’re not as crisp as we were last year,” Cohen said. “We had a lot of players perform really well last year, and this year, they’re not performing quite as well. What the reason is, I don’t know. It’s a little bit above my pay grade. It’s not my forte. …The players know it. Management knows it. I know it.
“Hope is not a strategy.”