Mets owner Steve Cohen was open and honest with The Post’s Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman on Wednesday about the state of the franchise.
Cohen explained that while Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns won’t be going anywhere anytime soon, he has been paying close attention to prospect development as well as on-the-field results, and he isn’t happy.
“I’m extremely worried,” Cohen said when asked about the future of his team. “Good teams develop players and have a pipeline of players. When we looked at last year we were generally feeling pretty good about our farm system. We’ve had regression in our farm system. Now I’m told that ‘development isn’t linear.’ It isn’t like some straight line where everything goes up. That doesn’t mean that some of these players will over time improve where they are today. When you’re looking at things objectively and you’re saying, ‘How are we going to get better?’”
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