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Mets' Steve Cohen: 'We got to make the playoffs'

Steve Cohen is making it pretty clear about what he expects from the Mets in 2025.

Logan VanDine

Oct 13, 2024; Los Angeles, California, USA; New York Mets owner Steve Cohen before game one of the NLCS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
Oct 13, 2024; Los Angeles, California, USA; New York Mets owner Steve Cohen before game one of the NLCS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images / Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
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After a magical season for the New York Mets last year that saw them reach the NLCS for the first time since 2015, owner Steve Cohen will be expecting a lot from his team in 2025.

On Tuesday, Cohen met with reporters down in Port St. Lucie, Florida and when he was asked about what a successful season would look like for the Mets in 2025, he was very blunt in his response.

"We've got to make the playoffs, that's the minimum," Cohen said. "After getting a taste of being in the league championship, want to go to the World Series and we want to win. If we put ourselves in that position enough, maybe it doesn't happen this year, maybe it does, but if we keep putting ourselves in position in the playoffs and to make a deep run we're gonna win a World Series at some point."

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After starting last season 0-5 and being a season-worst 11 games under .500 at the of May, New York quickly turned things around and strung together the best record in baseball from June to September. This culminated in them clinching a Wild Card spot in the penultimate game of the regular season.

From a dramatic Game 3 clinching win in the NL Wild Card Series against the Milwaukee Brewers, defeating the rival Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS, and coming up just two games short of a World Series berth against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS, Cohen is certainly looking for similar success or more out of his ballclub this year.

With the Mets seemingly winning the offseason by signing outfielder Juan Soto and being able to retain some key pieces from last season such as Sean Manaea, Jesse Winker, and most notably homegrown talent Pete Alonso, Cohen's floor for the Mets in 2025 should not be something to dispute.

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Logan VanDine
LOGAN VANDINE

Logan VanDine is a contributing writer for On SI's Mets. Logan is a graduate of Rider University where he majored in Sports Media and minored in Sports Studies. During his time at Rider, Logan worked for Rider's radio station, 107.7 The Bronc as a sports host, producer and broadcaster, and for the school's paper: The Rider News. He began his time with The Rider News as a section writer for sports and was a copy editor for two years followed by being one of the sports editors during his senior year. Logan also placed third in the New Jersey Press Foundation Awards for sports feature writing. Aside from his work at On SI, he is also a writer for FanSided covering the New York Giants and Mets and also covers the Giants for Total Apex Sports. Give him a follow on X: @VandineLogan

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