Earlier this afternoon, new Mets owner and CEO Steve Cohen and Team President Sandy Alderson held their introductory press conference. The event had a hopeful, borderline lighthearted tone, and was about as far from a Wilpons press conference, tonally, as you could get.
Cohen was up first, and started by thanking Fred Wilpon, Rob Manfred, his fellow owners, and Mets fans. He stated that he both wants to win championships and be an integral part of the community, calling owning the team a ‘civic trust.’ Cohen announced that his wife Alex would be running the Mets Foundation, as well as pointing out that she currently runs the Point 72 Foundation, the charitable wing of his hedge fund.