Steve Cohen’s Mets Spending Spree Nears $500 Million With Correa

The billionaire hedge fund manager is showing little concern with breaching the MLB luxury tax named after him.

New York Mets owner Steven A. Cohen

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Steve Cohen’s late-breaking heist for the New York Mets shocked the sports world — and further cemented his status as baseball’s biggest spender.

The billionaire investor, while reportedly on vacation in Hawaii, nabbed high-profile free agent Carlos Correa with a 12-year contract worth $315 million, sealing the deal while most Mets fans on the East Coast were asleep.