Mets Owner Blasts Agent Over Matz’s Decision to Sign Elsewhere

Steven Cohen held back from using Twitter for about six weeks, avoiding the platform almost entirely as the Mets underwent a puzzling and painstaking search for a new general manager. When he hired Billy Eppler last week, Cohen, the team owner, said his tweeting would most likely resume.

“Now that it’s over, I’ll probably get back on and give it another shot and see how it goes,” he said. “We’ll see. I mean, I think people like it, so why not?”

Cohen was not kidding. On Wednesday morning, he made news on his feed by criticizing the agent for Steven Matz, the left-handed pitcher who turned down a chance to return to the Mets and reached a four-year contract agreement with the St. Louis…