Unlike most sports owners, if you wanted to know what Steve Cohen thought of something, you often didn��t have to look far.
The Mets owner wasn’t shy about making his feelings known on Twitter, where he famously criticized the team’s offensive approach during their second-half swoon this year.
On Friday, Cohen said he might cut back on his social media usage going forward, but won’t be giving it up anytime soon.
“I’ll continue to tweet, probably not as much as I did previously,” Cohen said during a Zoom press conference to introduce Billy Eppler as the team’s new general manager. “Especially during the [GM] search, I wanted to respect the candidacies of the people we were talking to and didn’t want to make it a public search. … I didn’t want to turn this into a game. Now that [the search is over] I’ll probably get back on and see how it goes. We’ll see. I think people like it, so why not keep doing it?”
One reason is his messages — including the one during the ill-fated West Coast trip — resulted in controversy. The Post’s Mike Puma reported the billionaire’s social-media habits were a potential drawback for potential general manager and president of baseball operation hires.
Several candidates opted not to interview with the Mets for their front-office opening before they landed on Eppler, the former Angels GM and Yankees executive.
Cohen’s last tweet came on Oct. 4, when he thanked Luis Rojas for his work for the team after the Mets let him go as manager.
“Maybe it was novel,” Cohen said of his use of Twitter, where he has more than 227,000 followers. “Owners haven’t really done much of that. … I was trying to connect with the fans and think I was pretty successful with that, just getting feedback from people from the ballpark.”
But Cohen also noted that while fans enjoyed communicating with the owner of the team, “Twitter is a tough place to do it in general because it tends to be combative. … You know what the comments are. It’s a tough place to get your message across. We’ll see. I am a busy guy.”