Edwin Díaz’s likely season-ending injury during the World Baseball Classic was a nightmare scenario for the Mets. Losing arguably the best closer in baseball will hurt any team’s chances of making the World Series, but team owner Steve Cohen says that he and leadership need to stay calm during the process of looking for a possible replacement.
“When you get into a situation like this, I think you stay calm, you don’t overreact,” Cohen said on The Show: A NY Post baseball podcast with Joel Sherman & Jon Heyman Wednesday when asked about potentially trading for Díaz’s younger brother Alexis Díaz, the Reds reliever. “I think if you do, [you have] the tendency to make mistakes or overpay for somebody.”
Cohen also suggested that New York is in no rush to make any such move.
