""As long as I'm owning the team, there will never be a team captain," Cohen said in his first meeting with reporters at spring training Monday. "That was my decision. My view is the locker room is unique. And let the locker room sort it out, year in, year out.""
""I just was in that locker room and in the meeting and I sense an energy that really is exciting," Cohen said on the day of the team's first full-squad workout. "These are new faces, fresh faces that I think our fans are really going to enjoy watch playing. It's different. And I think we'll play a different type of baseball, and I think that's great.""
""Just my own views on how I want a locker room to be," Cohen said. "My view is every year the team's different and let the team kind of figure it out in the locker room rather than having a designation. Having a captain in baseball doesn't happen often. It's actually unusual.""
Steve Cohen will not designate a team captain and prefers the locker room to determine leadership annually. The Mets said goodbye to Pete Alonso, Edwin Díaz and two other longtime players and added free agent Bo Bichette and acquired All-Star pitcher Freddy Peralta. Carlos Mendoza begins his third season as manager after the team reached the 2024 NL championship series but missed the playoffs last year. Spring training revealed a revamped clubhouse and renewed energy with new, fresh faces expected to change the team's style of play and offer fans a different type of baseball.
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