PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — After turning the New York Mets into baseball's biggest spender, owner Steve Cohen would like to see his team build more economically through its farm system. “I’d like to get below the Cohen tax,” Cohen said Tuesday, referring to the fourth luxury tax threshold introduced in 2022 and aimed at him.

"I've always wanted to be a little more measured in payroll growth, and then we get there and it's never quite there,” Cohen said Tuesday.

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