"That was my decision. My view is the locker room is unique. Let the locker room sort it out year in, year out."
"Actually, having a captain in baseball doesn't happen often. It's actually unusual. So whatever previous ownership did, that was their way of doing things and I look at things differently."
"As long as I'm owning the team, there will never be a team captain,"
Steve Cohen will never name a Mets team captain while he owns the team, preferring locker-room leadership to emerge organically. The Mets have had four official captains—Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, John Franco and David Wright—and the role has been vacant since Wright retired in 2018. Francisco Lindor had been widely considered a likely successor and was briefly included in a team video that was later deleted. Cohen purchased the Mets in November 2020 and set expectations of winning a World Series within three to five years, calling failure "disappointing." The franchise has entered its sixth year under Cohen without a championship, with a 2024 NLCS appearance the closest result.
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