Steve Cohen admits to the worst kept NY Mets secret involving Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto

Steve Cohen promised us he was going to talk to us eventually this past weekend. Making no promises as to where or how or when, it ended up being via the NY Post’s podcast The Show hosted by Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman. Just days after the New York Mets fired manager Carlos Mendoza, we finally heard from Cohen in what has been a mostly silent year from him.

Along with giving David Stearns the biggest vote of confidence he could, saying he would remain for the next two and a half years with the Mets, Cohen divulged how it wasn’t all peaches and cream with Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto last year.

Avoiding the specifics, he admitted they weren’t the best of friends but added in how any issue between the pair have been resolved.

According to Steve Cohen, the biggest Mets stars have mended whatever problem they had last year

Lindor and Soto haven’t played together all that much, the former going on the IL the same game the latter returned from his early IL stint. Only recently have we seen them paired up again in a Mets lineup that, for the better part of the season, felt at 50%.

No exact reason for the rift between Lindor and Soto has ever been revealed. Mike Francesa said Lindor and Brandon Nimmo’s politics divided the relationship between those two. In Soto’s case, there never has been a specific reason other than a clash of personalities.

Assumptions are easy to make here. Eric Chavez saying how Soto would remove himself from the dugout in the early part of last season seems very reclusive and not the style Lindor would ever partake in or want from his teammates. Soto joined a team that, by all accounts, was led by Lindor. Was there a clash about that or some other baseball-related activity?

We’re left to wonder exactly what doomed the 2025 Mets in the locker room with the knowledge that Lindor and Soto weren’t inviting each other over for dinner.

Along with some other critiques, Pedro Martinez called out this year’s Mets for lacking leadership. A lot of the actions or words said over the last few months seem to have had a cause and effect. A poor relationship between Lindor and Soto might’ve been one reason why Cohen declared in the preseason there wouldn’t be a captain while he owns the team. This could have damaged Lindor’s ego while neutering any power he had behind the scenes. How it all began remains the biggest mystery of what has been the club’s worst kept secret.

On Opening Day, Lindor and Soto had the weakest of handshakes. Everyone else looked like they grew up in a secret society with one player or the other. It was clear already that these two weren’t on the greatest of terms. Somewhere along the lines, at least based on what Cohen says, it became water under the bridge. Big, small, or just admitting it was a rat and not a raccoon, Cohen’s attempt to make this a non-story only works until the next sneer or shot of them sitting on opposite sides of the dugout.

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