In the four years since Cohen purchased the team, Boras has demonstrated that his long-standing, career-making ability to convince owners to spend big — spend massive — on players very much extends to the Wall Street giant-turned-Mets boss. And Cohen is very much a willing participant.

Scott Boras, the Avenging Agent, recently called one of his clients, Juan Soto, “the Mona Lisa of the museum.” The baseball media, familiar with the agent’s hyperbolic history, dutifully added this entry into the man’s Rolodex of Hype. Yet it’s ...

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen is scheduled to meet with free-agent outfielder Juan Soto and Soto's agent, Scott Boras, next week in Southern California, according to the New York Post. Soto and Boras are expected to meet with other owners and braintrust groups between now and whenever Soto makes his decision.