Steve Cohen wants the NY Mets to win how many World Series over the next decade?

Juan Soto officially became a member of the New York Mets yesterday. The dream became reality.

We got to hear from Soto, Steve Cohen, David Stearns, and Scott Boras. The four horsemen of the richest contract in MLB history, there was plenty to spin from the conversations each had. One of the more important points came from an answer Cohen gave Soto during their negotiations about how many World Series he wants to win over the next decade.

Cohen kept it real. He’s aiming for 2-4.

Steve Cohen set a bar for the Mets over the next ten years

Two championships in a decade doesn’t seem as dynastic as Soto is hoping the Mets develop into.

Three is the bare minimum for a dynasty and they probably need to come within four years of each other. Four championships in a decade, even with more than a year's distance between them, might get a dynasty label if only because so few teams are able to achieve this in baseball today.

There hasn’t been a repeat World Series Champion since the New York Yankees won their third straight in 2000. When it comes to talk of dynasties, we can’t include the Houston Astros who won in 2017 and not again until 2022. Sorry. Two American League pennants followed by World Series losses don’t count.

Since the Yankees of the late 1990s, the closest thing to a dynasty the sport has had were the San Francisco Giants. Winners in 2010, 2012, and 2014, many don’t think of them as being a dynasty because there were no repeats. Dynasty or not, they set the goal Cohen is setting to achieve and are the most recent team to have more than two World Series wins in a ten-year span.

Sustained success isn’t nearly as attractive of a phrase in comparison to dynasty. In actuality, this is probably the true goal of the Mets who’ve accepted they won’t be in the World Series every year for the next 10 seasons nor will they even guarantee themselves a playoff spot every time. Cohen’s answer of 2-4 World Series wins in a decade is satisfying if it does come true, especially for a franchise approaching 40 years without one.

Seeing a single Mets World Series win would be enough for some folks over the next ten seasons. Cohen’s original plan of accelerating the Mets to a championship hasn’t gone quite as planned with the most successful year of his reign coming this past year when they appeared to make the weakest effort at going “all in.”

Cohen’s rational desire to win 2-4 World Series over the next decade isn’t completely unrealistic with how the sport has evolved .Gone are the days of anyone completely dominating for the full decade. The goal is to, of course, win 10 World Series in 10 years. But if he made this in his pitch to Soto, he wouldn’t have come across nearly as personable as he seemed to. In the end, the money mattered more than anything. Cohen’s ability to connect to Soto will help make him a happy, wealthiest man in baseball and not an unsatisfied one.