Steve Cohen & Sandy Alderson Press Conference

hi everyone just giving you about a five minute warning we're going to allow all the live feeds to get settled so we're look to begin around the 12 31 12 32 mark see you back in a few minutes hi everyone harold again just waiting another minute or two to let all our live feeds get situated and we'll be beginning momentarily thank you good afternoon everybody it's great to see everyone thank you for being with us today welcome not only to the media on this zoom but to all the fans watching live feeds on all mets social outlets including sny wfan and mlb network with that i'd like to go ahead and turn it over to met's owner and ceo steve cohen for some opening remarks good afternoon i went to my first mets game with my dad at the old polo grounds years later my friends and i used to sit in the upper deck at shea stadium that makes today a dream come true not just for me but for my wife alex and my whole family alex's dad ralph makes it to just about every home game they're all rabid met fans i have a lot of people to thank today let me start with fred wilpon we've been watching games together for many years and he's one of the true gentlemen in baseball thank you fred for bringing me in as a minority owner back in 2011 and thank you for your support as we transition the ownership of the team i also want to thank commissioner mafford and my fellow owners for their guidance and support and finally i want to thank my fellow met fans the greatest fans in baseball your support has been incredible you want us to win the world series and so do i new york fans have high expectations and i want to exceed them i want an exceptional team i want a team that's built to be great every year i don't just want to get into the playoffs i want to win a championship now owning a team is a civic responsibility you hold the team and trust for the community and for the fans that's how i see my role as the owner of the mets and that's why alex and i plan to invest in communities around city field alex is going to lead the mets foundation she's done a great job leading our family foundation she gets involved and really knows the organizations and the communities we support and i know she'll do the same here some of you may have noticed i've been tweeting with the fans our fans matter a lot to me we may not always agree but i will listen to what they have to say i want mets fans to have a great experience with us at citi field and on our media platforms you may ask what kind of owner i'm going to be i'm going to be an owner who builds a team that has continued success we want to create a blueprint for winning we will hire great baseball people like sandy alderson city and i share the same philosophy we want to make great play find great players and make them better we are starting with our homegrown talent and building from there when we need to fill a gap we will fill it it might be with a free agent or it might be through a trade we're going to strengthen our farm system keep our players healthy and use the best analytics we're going to build a process that produces great teams year in and year out you build champions you don't buy them and we have a great core on this team and we're going to get better and i plan to make the investments we need to succeed we want to win now but we're also building for the long term in my investing business i get judged every day i know you will judge me every day too i'm all in let's go mets thank you very much steve ask a question please click on the participants tab followed by the raise your hand icon at the bottom of your screen prior to your question please restate your name and affiliation for our audiences at home if you prefer to ask your question in spanish we do have our translator alan suriel here on the call to facilitate team president sandy alderson of course is also here to answer your questions but we'd like to begin this portion of the conference with all your questions you have for steve cohen that way once completed steve will be able to exit the call and sandy will remain to answer all your remaining questions for him so with that our first question is to you steve gelps hey steve steve gelbs from sny first of all congratulations uh one of the reasons that mets fans are so excited about this is that they feel like the team was purchased by one of them and you started talking about this a little bit uh you're a lifelong passionate mets fan what is your earliest and and greatest mets memory and what was it that originally made you fall in love with this franchise franchise well like i said you know i went to the poll grounds with my dad uh i think 1963 and you know i used to go with my buddies we used to take the train from great neck take it to the shea stadium stop and you know sit in the upper deck we had a phenomenal time and you know that's when you develop your affiliations with teams you know so i was 13 when they won their first world series and so you know it's it's i'm a baseball fan my family's you know great big mets fans great baseball fans and so um you know it's going to be a family effort here and we're all very excited steve you spoke about your vision for this franchise moving forward why was sandy alderson the right man to execute that vision right off the bat in your mind well first he knows the mets organization i mean obviously a lot of the same people that were that he brought up as players are you know now obviously doing great things you know with the mets um plus he you know he's a total professional and and he's had a lot of experiences in baseball and i've got a lot to learn and i can't think of a better person to learn from thanks your next question is from anthony dicomo hi mr cohen congratulations um thank you you kind of run the gamut in terms of how involved they are in all aspects of the organization how involved do you plan to be in various aspects uh particularly in baseball operations well you know i'm i i i played little league once you know but that's about it right so i'm going to let the professionals sandy and you know the people we bring in let them run baseball i'm sure they'll make recommendations to me and you know it'll be a collaborative effort but ultimately they're the experts and and generally but you know i hold people accountable just like i do in my business at .72 and you know i ask probing questions and you know i expect reasonable answers and it'll be a two-way conversation but ultimately they're the experts thank you thank you your next question is from desha dozar hey steve congratulations thank you uh just two-parter here what's the current job status of the louis rojas i'm going to throw that over sandy if you don't mind um so if it's not yeah yeah sandy will be unmuted momentarily okay i can tap dance if you want i think i'm unmuted uh thanks to isha for that for that question um so i have talked to louie uh a couple of times since uh friday and uh most recently yesterday we talked about his situation we talked about his coaching staff what i told louie was that it's very likely he will be managing the mets in 2011. but i left the door slightly ajar out of sort of respect for the process we're going through now to find a president of baseball operations i don't want to foreclose that person from having some input but i did have those conversations with louie and um as i said my expectation is that he will be managing the mets in 2011. thanks sandy and then just um one more for steve if i can just what was that moment like when the willpons announced in february that your original agreement to purchase the meds had collapsed and did that kind of just intensify your desire to eventually become the owner well listen i put a lot of time in in in trying to figure out if this was the right thing for me to do and and you know my whole team at my family office did a ton of work so it was disappointing you know because i really wanted to make it happen and but you know so be it it was a complicated transaction and sometimes when things get complicated complicated they fall apart and that's what happened then and and you know but here we are we're sitting here today and and managed to work it out and i'm really excited thank you steve reminder if everybody just for our audience is at home if you could restate your name and include your affiliation um with that the next question for steve will be from mike kuma mike puma from the new york post uh steve as you mentioned you've been a minority partner for several years i'm just wondering uh is there any point you became uh frustrated in the manner uh the will pounds were or running the team well you know listen i'm not gonna you know uh i'm not gonna comment on you know they they own the team they can do what they want and and i was a minority owner so i sort of quite a minority owner to being like a season ticket holder okay you don't really have a lot to say so um you know so that was that and and uh but here we are today and now i am the owner and so i get to you know be in charge myself and you know for years uh the complaint's been the the team that we spend enough money uh with seeing the teams in the position now to just spend a lot more money if they want to i mean where could you see the payroll going conceivably well i'm not going to talk about a budget today you know sandy and i have been in conversations on that and but what i do believe is this is a major market team and it should have a budget commiserate with that thank you next question is from tim healey hi steve i'm tim healey from newsday and i was just curious owning the mets having the mess do you see that as more of a business 0.72 or a hobby like collecting art well um the amount of work that's going to be required here is you know more than a hobby uh but you know i don't i don't consider it like .72 i consider it um something that i'm essentially doing it for the fans you know i mean when i really thought about this you know i can make millions of people happy and what an incredible opportunity that is and so you know that's how i'm thinking about this you know i'm not trying to make money here okay like i i have my business at point 72 and i'm you know i make money over there so here it's really about you know building something great uh building something for the fans uh winning and you know i just i just find this an amazing opportunity and i you know i'm so excited for it thank you your next question is from justin toscano justin toscano from the record uh congratulations steve thank you being a fan had followed the team so throughout the last decade what did you feel was missing from this franchise being able to to reach that top tier and how do you with your resources plan to provide that to fill those gaps well you know listen i'm not going to say you know i'm not going to speak about you know the mets previous to my ownership but what i am going to say is that you know we're going to build a professional organization we're going to build out our processes and and whether it's analytics whether it's scouting whether it's you know development of players you know we want to be excellent in all areas of this game that's going to require resources and i'm fully committed to making that happen you know i i'm not in this to be mediocre you know that's just not my thing you know i i want something great and i know the fans want something great and so that's my goal and that's that's what i'm going to do and on on twitter you mentioned taking those suggestions and you actually replied to quite a few of them were there two or three that that maybe particularly interested you as things you would like to institute maybe as early as next year well you know i i depending on whether we have fans or not i mean you know having an old-timers day would be kind of fun um you know i don't know why we wouldn't do that um you know i you know it appears like the tom seaver statue will be ready to be unveiled so we should have fest you know festivities around that and you know but there were so many great ideas and we put them all you know we've archived them and you know and you can just tell the fans are really really knowledgeable they know what they're talking about and they're the and they're the customer you know so i've got to listen and i want to listen your next question is from bruce beck steve congratulations thanks bruce um how do you balance trying to win now and making a splash with trying to establish sustained success over the years well first i think we have a really good core players already and so i think we're starting with a pretty good base um you know so you know we've gotta we to work on parallel tracks here we've got a obviously we've got to build up our baseball management team we've got to install processes and and ways of doing things that sustain excellence over a long period of time um but you know we we want to we want to win today which means you know we're going to have to make sharp baseball decisions on on you know who to bring in and who you know who to go after and and um and you know i've yeah that's sandy's department like i've said and they're they're going to be the experts and they're going to make recommendations and and but you know i'm not in this for a short-term fix okay i'm really like thinking about this of trying to build a sustainable franchise okay i don't want to be good one year and bad three years okay i want to be good every year and that's the goal so you know that's the type of business and you know team i want to build otis the next question is for you you'll introduce yourself um otis livingston from cbs2 congratulations steve on the purchase of the new york mets you spoke really emotionally about being a fan growing up and being at different ballparks and watching them play how do you separate in your decision making being a fan and also being a businessman because some owners can be emotional and go out and make changes you know that they feel are necessary well i can only tell you the way i run my uh my business at point 72 and i'm very measured you know and very calm and very try to be very thoughtful about things i think impulsive decisions tend not to work and so i want to make sure there are checks and balances within the organization so that you know i want my people to feel like they can feel comfortable and tell me hey if i feel this way and they feel differently i want them to tell me you know and that's how good decision making is made um you know i may have a thought you know they can shoot it down if they want you know like like i said i'm i'm i'm the new guy at the table here all right so i got a lot to learn and so that's why i need to surround myself with real professionals and i'm a pretty quick study um so you know over time i'll get better and i'm not worried about that um saying that you know i've got a day job too so i've got to make sure that you know that the the team is operating you know at at you know full at full full power you know it um you know even when i'm doing my day job so and i i anticipate building that and also um as a fan how much is it burning inside of you to not only bring one world series to queens but multiple world series titles well you know the way i look at that is you win one you gotta win one first all right so you gotta get started and then uh but you know i have a feeling that's a good feeling and you want more of that so um i suspect that's what you know i'm gonna be shooting for and you know that's that's what makes it fun right i mean you know you want to win you know no no one remembers you came in second and third place next question is from bradford davis hi um hi steve uh bradford davis new york daily news nice to meet you and congratulations um so i do know you know a number of this you know uh a number of city people workers were excited about the financial support that you would you know reportedly committed to them um as many of them aren't working in normal shifts at the park uh do you have a timeline for providing that uh that support uh you know i mean that might be a question for your your wife if she's running the foundation but i didn't want to so i i didn't really fully understand the question so i thought it was like to restate you know i know that number of city food workers were excited about definite about the financial support that you reportedly committed to them while they're not working the usual shifts at the park you know the consequences of the pandemic and everything and i was curious if you had the timeline for providing that financial support to you know out of work city field employees well i mean you know i think um i think we're doing i think we committed to doing that i own the team so that should start fairly soon um you know uh and uh you know listen we're committed to support our communities um you know we're my wife is so good at this i mean and you're going to love her and and she's she's all in too so uh you know it's it's an important part of you know being involved with the baseball team you know the communities care about it we care about the communities and um you know we're gonna we're gonna investigate find out things that are worth uh backing and and providing support for and and we look forward to that thank you and uh and just to follow on just you know community involvement obviously this is this was a crazier between the pandemic but also the you know the many protests that even baseballs you know became a part of with the black lives matter movement and everything and i'm curious uh how you see the men's organization under your leadership um you know being a part of this broader sort of conversation and activism on social justice well listen i mean you know i think these are important questions that you know america is discussing black lives do matter you know i feel it's really important that we we have a diverse group of employees not just for the sake of diversity but for the sake of diversity of thought people come from different backgrounds i think it makes for a much more richer environment to have people from you know different walks of life you know if if my players want to express themselves you know that that's they're entitled to do it they you know it's freedom of speech the only thing i ask for is if they're going to do it just make sure when you're between the lines you give 100 percent next question comes from ron plum ron we're going to come back to you the next question will be from mike piccaro hi steve mike the camera from the new york post congratulations uh two questions disparage questions about your background as a mets fan one uh can you name one or two players or one or two moments of your younger days as a mets fan that really stick with you all these years later and two in your conversation with fellow mets fans on twitter i mean do you get a real sense that they kind of look at you as being what they could be if not for you know deeper pockets in different circumstances well you know the first question i mean i cleon jones making the catch in left field to win the world series and i think i mentioned you know tom seaver you know the jimmy qualls you know breaking up the perfect game in the ninth inning um that those stick out is two great moments and then even one more the obvious one the you know mookie hitting the ball through buckner's legs which was an extraordinary you know moment in baseball so uh uh lots of good memories and so what was the second question well when you've had these conversations with uh mets fans on twitter obviously there's a they're pretty excited and excitable bunch i mean you get the sense that they kind of view you as being their proxy almost uh you know they would be you if not if you for different circumstances and deeper pockets you know unless i you know i grew up in long island you know i i i don't have a big ego you know i'm doing it for them um you know i'm a low-key guy and and i i i relate to them i know how they i feel i feel like i know how they feel and and these are smart these are smart fans they know what they're talking about and if they're emotional that means they care i'd rather have emotional fans that are passionate than fans that don't care and so you know i think it's phenomenal and and i think it's uh i love talking to them and and i i didn't know i would love talking to him i did it and i started enjoying it and so i'm going to keep doing it and you know there'll be times when you know things aren't going so well so well i'm still going to do it next question comes from mark corrig hi steve you're just talking about being a met fan you know you talk to a lot of him and and there's always that resent about the yankees kind of being the bigger team getting all the free agents how do you see that balance now that you're the owner of the mats do you do you see yourself trying to compete with them for those types of like beating them for those types of players and reshaping the identity of the franchise in a way i'm not competing against the yankees okay i mean this is the mets we're going to create our own excitement you know i'm competing against uh you know 29 other clubs in mlb all right so uh you know it comes down to you know us making good decisions um being you know taking advantage of opportunities that arise um which we're gonna do and you know i'm a very motivated very proactive type of guy i just don't sit back and just accept mediocrity and so um that that's you know unless you got to set goals got to set goals for the for the team you got to set goals for the fans you know we should set high goals you know we shouldn't accept you know just making it to the playoffs that's not good enough and so that means we're going to have to go out and get great players develop great players provide them with the resources that they they're going to need um you know in all parts of the organization that's what we're going to do setting goals uh how many seasons uh will you be pleased with them like when that's when the world series like is it gonna be one year two three like what is your standard for that well you know only one team wins the world series every year right so that's a pretty high bar but if i don't win a world series in the next three to five years you know i'd like to make it sooner then then you know obviously you know i would consider that slightly disappointing thank you thank you mark representing of course the athletic the next question is from justin walters hi steve justin walters pix11 news i know you touched on it a little bit earlier but you could you take us back to february and when the sale didn't go through was there any trepidation that you weren't going to become the owner what was your thought process then um well i mean like i said it was a complicated deal and not only that but i kind of i was already starting to think about kovit too and wondering if there was actually you know how that might affect the deal too so i'm not even sure it would have gone through in the end and so um it didn't happen sometimes deals fall through and it's not a fault to anybody just that's the way it goes and all you can do is give it a shot and you know and i get like i said in my statement i gave him my best shot and lucky enough you know i had the opportunity to come back and get involved and here i am and one more you mentioned about wanting to be a winner you do a timeline of hopefully winning a championship in three to five years how should your tenure as an owner be judged should it be simply if you guys win a championship getting into the playoffs and do you think fans will hold your feet to the fire if those expectations aren't met well if they're not met then they they should hold my feet to the fire you know listen in the end i'm not hitting the baseball okay all i'm doing is providing the resources to my management team and and ultimately i got to be held accountable for that and so it's not easy winning a world series but like i said before you got to set high goals next question is from tyler kepner hi steve congratulations thank you um tyler kepner with the new york times um i want to ask you what are some principles um that you can take from your success in business world investing that you can apply to baseball whether it's analytics or just something that has made you successful in one field how does that translate to baseball well actually the irony there's a lot of similar similarities between my hedge fund and a baseball team i mean i hire young people and i you know i have an academy and that's have an academy in in the dominican republic you know we take great pride in developing our people at point 72 they come up through the organization that's exactly what's going to happen you know as players come through the farm system i provide them lots of resources so they can do their job as effectively as possible that's what i expect to do with the mets sometimes we go out and hire people from other firms similar to the mets i'll go out and sign free agents so there's a lot of similarities and and um you know it's really about talent and developing talent and putting the best people out there that you can do on the field and in the organization too is there anything to um that you'd like to see in terms of analytics or bringing the mets up to up to speed with other trends um around the game is there any emphasis there well i mean that's part of the you know one of the areas that we want to upgrade um we've you know i i use data and analytics in my business at point 72 and you know and the mets do that today so you know we want to build on that and and you know provide all the resources and you know the amount of people you need to have a quality analytics department you know these are all little edges that you can get by having analytics and i don't want to give them away to somebody else next question comes from dave lennon hi steve congratulations thank you uh this is dave london from newsday i i know you gave kind of a vague answer to the expenditures you might have or invest investing in the team payroll and you said you're going to spend like uh like a big market franchise you know there's big market franchises and then there's big market franchises do you see like that luxury tax threshold as a suggestion when it's around 200 million dollars and you know do you see yourself as more of the upper echelon of the dodgers and yankees type of spending teams well you know listen we're trying to formulate those thoughts today i mean you know i can i can promise you we're gonna act like i said like a major market team or we're gonna act like drunken sailors you know in in in the marketplace no okay so you know listen i want to be thoughtful you know you can spend a lot of money today and then tie up your team and bad contracts for the next five years okay which you know so that's part of building sustainable franchise you want to make decisions not what works for the next you know 60 games but works for the next few years and so um you know we want to be thoughtful about it i think they're you know we're in an unusual market today you know given covid where a lot of teams might and we're starting to see uh players you know maybe being offloaded because of financial concerns and and i think sandy and i want to take advantage of that so i think there'll be lots of opportunities i think teams are going to want to talk to us and we'll see we'll see what's available thank you next up is maggie gray hi congratulations this is maggie gray from wfan and you're buying a team that has three fourth place finishes in the nl east in the last four years hasn't made the playoffs since 2016. how close do you think this team is and i have a follow-up well you know i think you can maybe ask sandy that you know he would have a better sense you know i mean my sense is that we have holes to fill and uh you know clearly we need to you know fill catching and we need to uh you know we need more pitching uh we have a pretty good core of of core offensive players i think that you know so we have we have good young players you know we have the best picture in baseball i think that helps a lot um so we have we have a lot to build around and so uh but you know we came in fourth three years in a row so you know the results speak for themselves my follow-up question is it seemed like a pretty spirited competition between yourself and the other bitters for the mets who were the other bitters i don't remember maybe someone you might have heard of alex rodriguez jennifer lopez you know um minor figures really but just kidding have you heard from a-rod or jennifer lopez since this has all resolved itself and you have now owned the team i haven't and you know but i certainly wish them well next up is ed coleman hey steve ed coleman from wfan wcbs congratulations thank you you mentioned uh using analytics and you know successful businesses and your hedge funds and that and we kind of had a come to jesus uh moment in the world series this year with blake snell and the role of analytics how do you view analytics in the game today how do you view the role in in the game of baseball i said analytics is really important you know but even in my my hedge fund you know we combine analytics with the human component and so i'm not gonna second-guess you know what the rays did i mean you know they got to the world series it was a heck of a team um an amazingly put together team and so you know they stuck to their their game plan and that was that's how they operated all year in fact i would argue you know maybe to to make that i think it would be hard to deviate from the game plan that they that got him into the world series so you know that's what they did and you know listen every decision not a hundred percent you gotta you know even with the best information the best um analytics you know sometimes that you know things happen that's just the way it is thank you next question comes from jeff passing hey steve jeff passing from espn congratulations thank you jeff when you're looking at what you would like this franchise to be like is there a model out there in baseball or maybe in another sport that you say hey this team does things really well well you know i think i like what the dodgers are doing okay i mean they're really they have a really strong farm system they take advantage of opportunities in the marketplace for free agents and trades um i think they run a pretty good business operation too so uh you know i think i think that's one team that you know easily uh you know seems to make the mark in the type of places that i want to do the same so you know i'm sure there are others you know and but we also want to do it our way you know we want to develop our processes sort of the mets way with a mets culture which is going to be uniquely ours and and but listen i'll take a good idea from anybody you know and if someone's doing it better than us i'm going to try to figure out why and and in that vein steve when you're looking for a new president of baseball operations um what are you seeking in that role is it someone analytically inclined is it somebody with a scouting background is there an archetype that you believe would be best for that job well you would want somebody well-rounded right that that would have skills and in all those different areas um you know i'm not crazy about people learning on my dime and so uh you know hopefully we can find someone that that feels sort of you know as well-rounded and you know has has abilities in multi areas thank you joel sherman your mike is live steve uh joel sherman from the new york post um do you was there any moment where you had concerns that you would get the necessary ownership votes to get control of the meds and what kind of stuff did you have to do between agreement and finalization with the other owners to make them comfortable that you were the right man for this job you know i felt i felt like i was going to get approval um you know i i do know some of the owners already and so and they know me so i thought that was pretty helpful um and so i wasn't really worried about it you know i felt pretty good about it does it does it bother you at all that i mean not not every vote could be the you know for premier of north korea but you weren't uh unanimous here uh does that bother you at all that you came in with some people at least having doubt if you were the right person to be the steward of this team listen i can't speak to what they were thinking and and uh you know all i know is like i did get 26 votes and you need 23 to be an owner so i accomplished my goal next question comes from tim britton hi steve this is tim britton with the athletic congratulations you know you this isn't your first uh attempt at buying a major league baseball franchise i was wondering you know in the time since you attempted to buy the dodgers about a decade ago how much have you thought about what kind of team what kind of organization you want to build over that time yeah i mean uh you know i came in second with the dodgers which means nothing and uh you know so uh you know i i i was i was it's not easy to find a team that you that you you actually you know that i didn't want to they i didn't want to travel to certain cities and and uh and so uh so i never i i actually never felt i actually felt they may be like i may never get another opportunity on a team that i would want to own and lucky enough the mets you know came up for sale and and uh so now i get the opportunity to put my imprint on a team and and you know i'm a stickler for detail i'm a stickler for a strong process i i don't suffer you know people who give me responses that are mediocre you know i i see through that fairly quickly um i'm i'm not a manager you know i really you know i hold my people accountable but i give them a lot of rope to run um i have a day job right so i've you know i've got two jobs now and so um but i i feel like we're going to build a management team around me that i can uh you know i get collaborate with and and uh and and give them the rope to run you know like you know i'm not i'm not going to sit there and second guess every decision it's not my style and you mentioned uh building a mets way in a mets culture what if you could describe that in in brief basically what what do you want the mets culture to be well i want i want professionalism i want integrity i'm not going to put up with maybe the type of stuff that that's happened in other places um and i want to hire the best and brightest and i want to i want to create a great farm system develop our players um and uh you know provide an environment you know and also let's not forget the fans you know provide a product and and uh you know when when they interact with me at at the stadium or on our media platforms wherever that their experiences is extraordinary thank you next up is kevin kernan kevin thank you congratulations and uh i'm just curious you talk so much about building through the minor leagues which i love to hear and the opportunity you have now to get scouts but as a mets fan not as the owner what was your reaction when they traded kalanick jared kulinic and and and what that did for the future listen i'm not going to question what happened in the past um you know they made their decision i'm sure it was well informed um generally you know our belief is we want to hold on to our uh our farm system you know and only use them when we're you know close to you know uh if we need to use them as chips to trade for a player that we we do it when we're close to really winning a championship you know i i feel really in my own hedge fund the key to my firm is that we develop talent all the time if i didn't do that and depended on just going out uh in the world and getting uh hiring people from on the outside i'd be out of business okay so i really feel it's important that we draft well and develop our players and hold on to them ron blum we're coming back to you hey steve when you look at your background and your business experiences what are the different attributes you've picked up along the way that you think translate well to running a baseball team i think you got to be patient you know you got to you got to create you know decision making uh processes in the business that you know our sustainable decision making you know so that you're planning you're um you know you're providing like i said before resources so that people can do their jobs and do it well and and um and that's what i do with my hedge fund you know i provide every resource i can think of so my analysts and pms can perform to the top of their ability and that's what we're going to do with the mets you know we're not going to just spend money wildly but you know we want to have great coaches so we want to have great technology we want to have great analytics um you know we want to have great people making decisions we want a collaborative culture okay we don't want it being run in an autocratic way best ideas come out of the organization okay like some of the best ideas in point 72 came from someone within the organization who had an idea and so like i said i'll take a great idea from anybody we have time but one more for steve before we get to sandy uh rich catino your line is open rich please unmute i think rich left he gave up all right we are going to then move on to uh bob clappish we will wrap up mr cohen with you bob your line is open hi steve it's bob patrick from star ledger nj.com congratulations thank you i'm just curious to going back to your days as a rabid met fan growing up what was what was your opinion of the yankees if you don't want to comment on them now as an owner but as a fan did you admire them from afar or were they brand x listen the yankees have a great history right i mean they've won 27 championships 28 um and um so you know that that's pretty impressive and so you know that that that's that's what happens when you build a great organization and and they and they had that saying that there were times when the mets were great too and and so you know we just want to you know be great more often and so that's what i'm focused on and and uh i'm ready for the challenge you know like i'm all in here thank you steve thank you very much for your time today very much appreciated and with that we will now turn over our attention to questions for sandy alderson please again remember to use the raise your hand icon and we will begin with the first question from steve gilbs hey sandy um for you what was the the key ultimate factor that made you decide that you wanted to come back to the mets and take on this new challenge i think it was steve cohen i mean you've just heard him over the last uh few minutes and i think that uh that's what excited me was the opportunity to come back and work for work with a guy like steve whose vision um parallels my own um you know i sent him a memo a few months ago actually to talk about that i think we're very well aligned in terms of philosophy and strategy and potential execution but ultimately it was about steve i mean look i i love the opportunity to be able to come back to the mets there are a lot of people there that i know i respect uh i love even and i'm excited about meeting new people uh because i'm always excited about uh new ideas but first and foremost it was uh it was steve and um so i'm excited about the partnership and um uh really looking forward to what happens over the next few months you know the last time i owned a world series was 31 years ago so that three to five year time frame it's it's a little concerning but we'll live with it well sandy um you know when this deal became official you were pretty swift in your decision-making parting ways with many members of the front office during this these past couple of years why did you feel that that was the necessary first step and how do you now plan on structuring a new front office well in my experience i think that anytime there's a change of ownership or a change of leadership at or near the top um there are going to be changes made uh in the in the uh levels of leadership and partly it's not because people aren't capable it's not because people aren't competent i have a great deal of respect for brody and for allard obviously omar but in terms of how we envision the team being structured its decision making processes as steve pointed out all of those have to be aligned with the personalities so it's not just competency it's also about um how people interact and so you know in addition to that um we're going to have a new head of baseball operations it's not going to be me and sometimes it's better to make these decisions uh in advance to give a new person a chance to make their own choices and uh not have to come in and their first act is to uh um terminate some people so and i felt it was important from a timing standpoint i felt it was important just for alignment of the leadership of the organization and so we ended up doing it on friday thanks next up uh tim healy your mic is life hi sandy tim healey hi uh front office search wise what is the state of that and what do you expect timeline wise giving that it's already mid-november so uh two things happened on saturday we had a new president-elect and i interviewed my first candidate for president baseball operations uh so we're already you know we're already on our way we're already uh involved in the process and um that was one interview there will be others um we're currently evaluating exactly how many and who we will pursue but you know this shouldn't take a long time um wouldn't want to punt a put a time limit on it but you know we understand that it's important to get people in place in the meantime i've got a small but very capable group uh remaining we talk every morning uh for an hour or so um i have already been in touch with agents for free agents i've talked to some of our own players currently and i've also reached out to louis rojas so there's a lot going on most of it behind the scenes but i don't think we're behind at all and uh particularly this year with i think what will be a slower developing free agent market together with a uh sort of a uh additional market that will develop uh at the tender date and um and and through the trading period so it's going to be exciting there are a lot of different options i think steve pointed out we want to be active in all of those areas and um i think we have the resources to do that and you mentioned sending a memo to steve a few months ago to i think talk talk about the mets yeah when did that happen and were you looking to come back well this memo happened uh well after we had our first conversations and so i thought in order for steve to be comfortable with me um that he needed to hear some of my thoughts and so you know i put together something that i thought would encapsulate my thinking and hope that it would align was hit with his and ultimately i think it i think it did but what's important to me is um not having a job but having an opportunity to create something really special and uh i think with steve and you you've just heard him i think with his not just his intellect but his thought processes and enthusiasm uh together with what i think is the appropriate way to approach all of this from a philosophical a strategic and a sort of an execution standpoint um i'm really excited and with that memo i think we you know we understand each other pretty well and as i said i'm really excited and i think that uh we're on the right page and we're heading the right direction ed coleman we're going to come to you next hey sandy welcome back congratulations good to see you uh you mentioned that the head of baseball operations that uh you're looking at now can you go through a couple of things here can you go through like the pecking order is there a general manager under the head of baseball operations and and what is the input from people as far as that and the manager as well so uh first of all ed uh good to see you again if i put on my reading glasses it'd be like looking in a mirror okay many people have said that yeah yeah yeah well it's true because i recognize those glasses they're from uh walgreens right no cbs okay all right so we both shop at the drugstore um so with respect to the president of baseball operations uh you know i think that what we're looking for is the most accomplished baseball person we can find and from there the rest of the structure will flow so it's very possible that we'll have a general manager beneath that person uh but i think that you know we're going to allow that person to have some input into how the the structure ultimately is created so you know i've got some ideas um but they're you know they're more general you know we want a very collaborative organization i'm not going to make the baseball decisions i expect to have a seat at the table but i don't expect to be you know seated at the head of the table so we're going to have a process it's going to be collaborative this person is going to have a lot of runway and we're going to build the organization around him now i think we've got some very capable people in-house and so it's not as if we need to start from scratch but once we get that person in then i think we'll figure out you know exact roles for existing personnel as well as some others that we may bring in but uh you know i'm very excited about that as far as uh you know the manager is concerned with with the caveat that this new baseball leader will have some input into the managerial decision uh you know i i've told louis that he's very likely our manager in 2011. um and so 21. i'm 21 i'm sorry so um so from that standpoint uh you know louie lee and i have had conversations we've uh talked about the coaching staff and of course i know louie from my years with the mets before he's a very uh capable and uh um fine individual and i like him a lot thank you next up uh joel sherman your line is open sandy uh i i know steve cohen tried to uh dance of trying not to compare previous administration to this one but you literally worked for one and now you work for the other and i wonder what you think is different for you now this is something you want to do well first of all let me say that that but for the opportunity that the uh will ponds and and uh saul cats gave me back in 2010 i wouldn't have had this opportunity so um you know what i hope is to be able to build on the experience i had before there's no question that uh their their uh ownership styles um will differ uh there's no question that um you know there will be differences in the way we operate uh the differences in our emphasis and um you know overall sheer capacity to do things um but you know what brought me back as i said before was steve i think there are there are immense possibilities in connection with uh this team i have a you know i don't go back to the poll of grounds in my relationship with the mets um probably my most memorable moment is wilmer flores getting the ball out on a friday night um so i you know i'm i'm a i'm a late comer to the game as as it relates to the mets but i'm i'm no less invested uh not only uh in terms of my you know professional commitment but also emotionally um so you know i'm excited you know i i told i told the employees earlier today um this is a this is an optimistic moment i mean for a lot of reasons um we have new ownership the background is maybe we found you know a cova vaccine we got the election behind us it's the marine corps birthday uh it you know it's a great day and uh i can't tell you how how excited i am to be part of what's going to happen going forward sandy can i follow with one other thing is uh is what what do you believe is the core value of the team as a contender right now like where do you place it and therefore how do you handle this off-season to augment it if for example you think it's the core of a high-end contender well i think that you know we have some real strengths i think from an offensive standpoint there are definitely some first division championship pieces um jacob degrom is by definition um an ace he's the definition of of uh cy young if you will um there are there are things that we do well there's things that we don't do well um you know we need to shore up some positions our our uh our pitching staff is thin our depth at double a and aaa is thinner thinner the bullpen is has been inconsistent um we have needs behind the plate our team defense is uh and honestly i'll take some responsibility for even the team defenses it exists today uh from the emphasis that uh you know we put on offense years ago so a lot of things that we need to do but i think that you know there is a foundation there and i think if we can add the right pieces this year and steve has indicated that we'll have the opportunity to do that we can be pretty good pretty quickly and that's my goal for for 2021. next up is dave lennon hey sandy welcome back thanks dave um i'm curious you you've known a lot of owners uh in multiple sports probably too have you ever seen quite the dynamic that steve has as far as a lifelong fan with the type of resources that he has and and his knowledge for trying to put together a team he seems to be kind of in a unique category no i would agree with that i think that uh you know his history um his passion for the team that goes far beyond just this uh ownership bid his resources but also i think his success uh at .72 and the way in which he you know sees similarities uh with the team i've always said you know for a long time there are more similarities between baseball and other businesses then there are dissimilarities there there are some things that are different you know there's a different vocabulary there's a different set of uh there's a different calendar there you know there are differences but but not that many and i think what you see over the last 10 or 15 years is teams like boston teams like tampa bay teams like the dodgers recognizing those similarities and adapting them to the to the the baseball industry and that's what we want to do and i think that you know we have the opportunity now not only to you know adopt things from you know broader baseball community um and for business generally but from what's been really successful for steve and i think he articulated some of the things that are that are transferable and that it's not so much rece you know it's not people it's not uh hardware it's not it's ideas it's uh it's an approach um and an emphasis on on you know how you run the business uh how you um make decisions um and you know how you how you achieve the professionalism uh across the board that i think is part of what we want to create with the mets as part of their reputation we want to be you know we don't want to just be known for um for winning we want to be known for how we win and i think that's the difference between you know a great franchise and and also sustainable success sustainably successful franchise and one that you know is hit and miss um so you know the mets are sort of a they're a storied franchise if you will um some of the stories have been good some have been bad and if we want to be an iconic franchise which i think we're capable of doing we have to write more good stories than bad and occasionally we have to write a really epic story and uh you know that's what that's what excites me about these these these uh next few months and and years because um i think we have the chance to do that tyler kepner your line is open yeah welcome back sandy good to see you again yeah thank you um i you answered you may have gotten around to some of it um in that answer but the very first thing you said is that your vision um steve's vision parallels my own i think is what you said how it how so well i'm gonna read i'm gonna read something from the memo that i you know wrote for steve uh i don't know several months ago first page second paragraph um i'm afraid to put on my cvs glasses but i'm going to try to do this a vision for new ownership to create an iconic major league franchise respected for its success competitive and financial success and how it achieves that success and for its commitment to fans and community so okay it's a vision statement you know you start to unpack that and as i said before we want to be iconic the mets have a chance to do that i'm not sure you can be iconic in most parts of the united states regardless of i mean it's hard to do in a place that's not new york or chicago or l.a it's been done but we have that opportunity in part because we're well located um but in order to get there you know we've got to be sustainably excellent uh that's the way we get there um the yankees and 27 or 28 are how many championships they have they're iconic we're not using them as a benchmark but i think there are examples for what we want to achieve you know around the country in various sports uh the thing that's really important to me as well though is is being respected for how we get there and so on page two of this little memo it was about that piece of it and you know we want to be i hate to use some of these cliche words uh but you know we want to be authentic we you know you're going to hear from me and you know you're going to hear from steve you just saw steve i think he came across as pretty authentic we're going to be out front we're going to communicate we want to be professional we want to be collaborative we want to be innovative uh those are all kind of cliche the real question is how do you execute on out it's easy to say it we all say we want to build a good farm system well how are you going to do that i mean the real proof is is is in how you actually go about doing it and so we're going to establish we're going to have the resources so first of all you have to have capacity you got to have enough people you got to have the technology you have to have the ability to run the analytics you have to have a big enough scouting staff on the business side you have to have enough people selling tickets you have to have enough people who are able to man all the social platforms etc etc we want to be a fully built out professional organization and in the meantime treating our employees in a way that they have pride not only because they happen to be affiliated with the mets but because they have pride in the way that the the mets function and uh ultimately you know their performance so you know with employees so i get on with all you guys and it's on tv and all that sort of thing we all make impressions on fans steve does i do but actually every single in every single person who works at the mets makes impressions and the mets reputation is a sum of all those impressions and you know i get an opportunity to make more impressions just because it's in the media but every one of us has a chance to make impressions and so you know i hope i empower our employees across the board baseball and business um to to make those impressions and feel good about the fact that they represent the myths and not just because they're fortunate enough to be working in sports but because they they feel they're really fortunate enough to work for the mets how much did it hurt you that um you know the mets have acquired maybe earned this reputation um you know for making some i don't know how you'd put it but some uh questionable decisions or crazy things that happen and lol mets all that stuff you know all about it like how much did that hurt the pride of being of working for the mets and what the organization's supposed to stand for well you know when i first joined the mets in 2010 i remember walking by bus stops in manhattan and it you know there were um there were somebody had built an advertising campaign around the sort of ineptitude of the new york mets uh that didn't feel good um and we you know we went about trying to change that perception and for a period of time i think maybe we were successful but we we can't do it just periodically you don't change perception without some sort of consistently uh successful message and that message comes from all the things that we do it's not just making a trade you know that turns out well or turns out poorly it's all the other little things it's the phone calls to to fans it's uh again it's a sum of all of those impressions so you don't change the perception without changing the reality you're not going to they're not often the same but you're not going to have a positive perception for long if you know the underlying facts don't just just don't support it so we have to do a lot of things well and i think steve is going to go a long way toward changing that narrative i really do it's going to give us some some leeway you know with the mets often or anything you know i used to say this about the umpires if you if an umpire makes a mistake there are two different reactions that can result the average fan will say ah they all stink they all make mistakes they're terrible they stink but if you've created an environment where somebody can respond and say you know what these guys are great but everybody makes a mistake once in a while and so it's really about changing the underlying perception so that when things happen they're not interpreted you know consistently negatively or or or uh you know in some other fashion that that it doesn't put the team in best light so um you know i'll stop talking but i think that you know we gotta we gotta change the perception but i think you know steve's gonna give us a real chance to do that next up is mark kerrig hey sandy mark corrigan from the athletic um just wondering like and just in the last year and a half like you know being away from a day-to-day operation of a team i i guess did that time give you a chance to sort of reflect on these philosophies that you're talking about and if so i'm just curious like has anything changed in your worldview of how to run a baseball team you know just having that opportunity to have like that kind of away from the day-to-day that's a good question first of all i i don't think my view of how to run a successful baseball team has changed i think what this will do is give me an opportunity to perhaps implement some of those ideas um you know when i was with uh oakland the last couple of years um you know i wasn't directly involved in trade conversation i mean occasionally but you know they had they got a great baseball operation there they didn't need me to you know uh um help them with uh you know their their trade possibilities what i really enjoyed though was um talking with minor league staff in particular and major league staff coaches and bob melvin about the game and not only about the game but about some of these ideas you know i remember uh talking to the whole minor league staff one day about the importance of a coach having some curiosity you know one of the problems we have in the game today is that you know we have these the analytic group and we have the um scouting group if you will the traditional scouting group and sometimes they talk a different language but sometimes they don't even talk to each other you know one side might be resentful the other side might be sort of this disrespectful but you know unwilling to sort of admit the value and we end up with you know at loggerheads and to me what curiosity means is that you're willing to grow into you know yourself but also you're curious about people around you i it's not just it's not empathy as much as it is chi having real respect for what other people do and an interest in finding out how they do it and i think that's what we're going to try to foster with the mets not just in baseball but in business as well you know we want people who are curious about others because when you're curious about somebody else that there's a certain level of respect that goes along with it and a willingness to be open-minded and i think you know what we need is some of that open-mindedness because that's the real key of how to blend the analytics and the human side um you're not going to you're not going to get there without kind of a mutual respect for for both parties anthony tacomo your line is open hey sandy i i have two quickly um one just uh assurances perhaps did you receive from steve cohen that you will have freedom sort of quote-unquote carte blanche to do things the way you want to do it and how might that contrast with your previous tenure here look i uh look i'm an employee okay uh i've always felt my job uh whether wherever i was and um certainly you know my last tenure with the mets my job was not to make all of the final decisions my job was to make a lot of the decisions but in certain cases make recommendations i mean there are there are seminal events that take place whether it's a you know a 100 million dollar contract or something of that sort that's not a decision uh i'm going to make exclusively and that's you know that's something that i'm going to discuss with steve my job is to make recommendations and ultimately if i'm successful uh he'll accept my recommendations more often than he won't um but you know i'm comfortable with the relationship that i've established with steve already you know we talk i don't know two or three times a day when he's eating a sandwich when the market slows down at noon you know he calls me up and asks me some question that you know i don't know what he's going to ask me but usually they're they're insightful questions and uh you know hopefully i have a response but i think you know intellectually a variety of ways professionally this is going to be a real challenge for me and and part of it just just emanates from the fact that steve is so animated and into it and i think in a positive way no i don't think he's gonna as he said he's got a day job you know and uh he probably needs that day job to pay for some of the you know potential losses we have with the mets um so from my standpoint that's a good thing um and also just how long do you want to do this you know coming on at age 72 is this an open-ended thing for you or is this something that you want to maybe steward over for a couple of years do you want to do it until you win i mean what's kind of your personal timeline with this yeah so i've you know i've committed to a couple of years uh but it's open-ended uh thank you for uh you know referencing my age it is it is what it is uh i don't wanna die with my boots on but uh you know i think this is gonna be a great couple of years we'll see where it goes and that's all i can say thank you next up is mike puma mike puma from the new york post uh daddy just wondering from what island supermarket would you say you're shopping so this is the uh scott boris um uh approach to interpreting uh met's intentions and free agency i guess um so here's how i would respond i would say that um you know we're gonna we're gonna make sure we got enough meat and potatoes but we're going to be shopping in the gourmet section as well how does it feel to be able to shop in the gourmet section after not always being permitted to go there i don't know i got to find out where it is [Laughter] thanks thank you mike next question comes from desha thosar hey sandy um just you kind of already touched on this but you said that your mindset and your ideas of how to run a successful baseball team haven't really changed now you can just you have the freedom to implement them how do you kind of respond to fans who might be cautious of your return to the organization and just kind of how will your tenure as president be different this time oh well you know i think to understand or or uh have an expectation about the way that i'm going to approach this job you got to go all the way back to uh the last century unfortunately um there was a time when i had it my team the oakland a's had the largest payroll in baseball um in the early 80s we started adopting analytics we kept it quiet because we thought it might be a competitive advantage um the data didn't exist um at that time the way it does now so a lot of these concepts that have subsequently been you know proven and kind of built out were were just ideas at the time but there were concepts you could actually follow so in terms of how i'm gonna you know approach this i wouldn't want people to just look at my tenure with the mets and make assumptions um you know we even with the mets i think that you know we were you know i i probably was characterized as patient um i don't know that that equates with you know sloth like um you know patience is a virtue i think but you got to know when to pull the trigger patience for in and of itself is probably not a virtue timing is um so we we did some i think we took some risks uh you know last time we took some risks with uh various people some of them worked out some of them didn't tried to do it at the right time but in any event i i think that i think that the environment will be a little bit different and i think the fans expectations are already very different and there's no reason to think that the way i approach things won't be a little bit different as well thanks honey okay tim britton your line is open hi sandy tim britton with the athletic yes uh kind of on similar lines there you know you have the familiarity of being in this organization for eight years as it is run one way and now it appears it's going to be run a pretty different way how does that familiarity with with what it could be here maybe enhance your optimism or enthusiasm for for what changes you can kind of make manifest this time around uh good question so i think i think my familiarity with the organization goes beyond the individuals and uh um so i don't know everybody in the organization at this point it's been turnover you know for a couple years but i do know a large number of people more importantly i think i know how they function i know how they interact i know where we're strong and and to some extent i think where we're weak and this is this is not with respect just individuals it's respect with respect to um uh categories of of activity so if you take player development you know it's not just player development generally it's about the coaching staffs the performance group the analytics integrated with that group you know there are a variety of different things and i think i have a little more granular knowledge of the mets than most people would just coming in in fact i know i have a lot more so i have some pretty strong ideas that are predicated on my experience but also my observation of the way things are done elsewhere today you know you wouldn't be talking to me today at age 72 if i i wasn't curious myself and wasn't interested in understanding you know where things have come where they can go uh and um have an open and sort of progressive mindset so it's not like i have ideas that i want to you know i want to imprint i it's it's really about gleaning a lot of things that are currently i think working for other clubs and uh and bringing them to the midst and so i hope my experience not only in terms of years but also you know recently with the mets and with the a's and so forth um and also my experience with the competition committee the rules committee uh that there's a contemporary approach to what we're trying to do um and that's what that's what i hope we can achieve and then you you joked about needing to find the gourmet aisle but uh do you have to kind of is there a mindset you need to get across to some people who have been with the mets for a long time that they can maybe think bigger or think differently at least than they have in the past yes i think that's the case you know for example when brad hand was on waivers last week you know one year 10 million dollars um if the timing had been a little bit different you know we might have jumped on that now is that a good deal i don't know it's probably overpaying a little bit who knows but today given what we want to achieve it's not about how much less we can get somebody for it's more about getting that somebody now i don't want to create the impression that we're just going to go out and you know sign a bunch of players but i think we we now can emphasize the acquisition rather than the cost does that make sense yeah thank you sandy next up is ron blum ronnie yes sandy how did you first meet uh steve and what was that like i first met steve um in new york in december of last year at a breakfast arranged by andy cohen his right-hand person at cohen private ventures uh andy is really the guy that uh got me involved in this originally andy was the guy who represented steve at minority owner meetings at citi field and he's the guy that i got to know somewhat through those meetings and you know that was my original connection to steve so um you know we met uh in december it was in connection with uh the first iteration of this transaction uh and then it went into you know i mean it was a casual conversation but it went into to hibernation for a long period of time and steve was able basically to thread the needle over the next several months and uh um so our relationship wasn't really cemented until you know i would say recent months but i first met him in december of last year next question is from eric fisher hey sandy good afternoon so question about the uh minor leagues which we've obviously talked a lot we're in the midst of uh some large scale changes across the affiliated system and in particular your way anticipating some changes with brooklyn but uh broadly how do you see this whole shakeout playing out for the mats well i think that uh you know we're gonna lose some minor league franchises and and on its face uh um i'm not really happy about that i think that you know the minor leagues provide more than just players they provide a presence in a lot of small communities that are able to make a connection between major league baseball and um and the players that are there in front of them having said that i think major league baseball is going to do a great job of expanding opportunities in those areas where uh teams are are going to be um eliminated so overall based on what i've heard as recently as yesterday i really think you know they've got a cogent plan in place for us um you know we're going to be in syracuse uh we're going to be in binghamton we're going to be in st lucie and we'll be in brooklyn um and the nice thing about brooklyn is that i think it's going to become a full season affiliate so people can start watching uh baseball on coney island in april if they can stand the wind coming off the ocean but i think it's a great opportunity for for local baseball and we're really excited about uh about our continuing affiliation with all of those four teams there'll be you know other players in st lucie beyond the the team that's playing there it's going to be a little different but i think there's some positives associated with the changes you know one of the one of the problems for with developing players is they play too often you know they play every day and you don't always you don't you don't always develop just through performance there's a lot of other uh you know there's a lot of other uh time that could be well spent developing skills and i think some of our players were able to take advantage of that this year so you know there's some some positives or some negatives um but i i think you know we will end up with a very strong organization as steve pointed out we're gonna grow our own players um you know i think that uh the mets have drafted very well over the last eight or ten years including i think the last two years i really like the approach they took um so we're going to draft those players i'm going to assume based on our track record that they're going to be pretty good and we're going to hold on to them um you know they're they're only two currencies in baseball players and money and if you're going to give up fewer players you're going to have to expend more money and i think what will happen with steve is that we're going to have the opportunity to sort of husband our players uh in ways that maybe we weren't able to do before thank you stanley time for uh about two more uh bradford davis your line's open i stand nice to meet you bradford davis from the new york daily news um i you know just going back to the uh question uh rather answer you gave to anthony uh earlier today uh you said that uh you know steve has often asked you very insightful questions you know um as you guys are you know building a relationship and building this team i'm curious if there's any other there any you know particularly insightful sort of conversations you had that impressed or even surprised you you know about him you know whether it is his you know strategies leadership etc well one of the things that's impressed me is uh just the dialogue that we've had so you know it hasn't just been about me answering questions it's actually been a dialogue and i've enjoyed them partly for their for their content but partly for the fact that they you know take place on sort of an even balanced basis these aren't challenging questions per se they're questions they're learning questions and not probing in a sense of accountability but probing in a sense of education and uh you know i don't know that there's anything that stands out you know one conversation might be with a particular player who for some reason was on the news um another question might arise from a from a twitter response that he uh may have gotten um so there's a breadth of questions and a variety of answers he keeps me on my toes and uh that's what i like you know i like i like being challenged and uh that's that's what's happened with steve good uh last question uh justin toscano will open up your line hey sandia welcome back obviously the game is pretty rapidly changing as it relates to kind of organizational infrastructure especially in front offices and what ways do you think not only steve's vision but but the resources he's able to provide will help you guys be kind of on the cutting edge of some of those changes well i think that i think first and foremost the mets have been become a very attractive landing place i think that's true across the board suddenly overnight i think people are interested in working for the mets who within the game who perhaps were not before um i think that players are interested in in the mets for reasons they might not have been before um so you know from that standpoint i think that we've really got an opportunity here to be selective whether it's you know and how we build out our operation our front office on the baseball side the business side but also with respect to players and coaches and i think that's a great place for us to be in because ultimately the success of the organization is going to be predicated on the quality of the people who work for the mets and you know one of my jobs is to make sure that we have that quality of individual and at the same time we have the you know the systems the processes that leverage that ability in individuals um and that's that's kind of what i'm focused on is finding good people rewarding good people wherever they are within the organization and providing a structure and process that leverages their abilities um and ultimately leads to you know some success hopefully for us sandy uh with that want to thank you very much for all your time this afternoon and also i want to especially thank everybody else who participated in this call uh moving forward please reach out if there's any further assistance we can provide or any additional information and with that we look forward to uh seeing and speaking with everybody again soon everybody thanks everybody yeah thanks for everybody i i enjoyed it you wore me out and uh i look forward to doing it again thanks sandy bye-bye everybody you

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