New York Mets: Dom Smith is very impressed with Steve Cohen

The New York Mets had a Cy Young award finalist in Jacob deGrom, yet only one player finished in the top 15 of the National MVP voting. Dare to guess who that player is? No, it’s not Pete Alonso, or Jeff McNeil, or even Michael Conforto. It was Dominic Smith.

If you thought Smith would be the only New York Mets’ player in the top 15 of the NL MVP ballot, well, you could be related to Smith. But with hard work, an improved batting line (.316/.377/.616, with 10 home runs, a .412 wOBA and a 165 wRC+) and playing time that became available after Yoenis Cespedes decided to opt out, he managed to get two eight place votes, four nine place votes and a couple of 10th place ones to finish 13th.

He has become one of the Mets’ best building blocks. And he, along with other members of the organization, has been impressed with new owner Steve Cohen, a lifelong fan of the team that has said all the right teams to a hungry fanbase.

The Mets’ new owner has another fan in Smith

According to Bradford William Davis of the New York Daily News, Smith didn’t watch the whole press conference but was extremely impressed with everything he heard and saw. “Having an owner come in like that and say some pretty demanding things, and have high hopes for the organization the way he does, is definitely just a great sign.”

“You just want to pretty much work and give him everything he wants,” Smith said. “And he wants to win the World Series in the near future, that’s definitely a goal of everybody on this 25 man roster.”

Fellow member of the Mets Marcus Stroman was also impressed with Cohen’s remarks and involvement since he was approved by the MLB owners as the new leader. The two had a very pleasant Twitter exchange.

Smith said that the Mets are just a couple of pieces short of building something great. “If you look at the talent on the roster, over the last several years, we have a roster that definitely can do some things,” he said. “A lot of our team — we’ve done a ton of self-evaluations, and we were all going back to the drawing board. So to have a team that motivated going into (the) offseason, we can do just about anything.”