Steve Cohen wasn’t going to let anything stop his high-priced Juan Soto pursuit

DALLAS — Steve Cohen is a different kind of owner, for the Mets or for anyone else, really. Cohen held his big confab with his new superstar Juan Soto at his mansion in Beverly Hills, not the undisclosed, presumably nondescript room where the other teams did their Soto meetings in Orange County. 

Cohen had several workers serve lunch to Soto and his agents, by one count seven servers to about 15 diners. That’s a nice ratio. It was Latin food. Nice touch. 

Cohen invited the guests — Soto and his coterie of agents, including Scott Boras — to the theater room to view a film made by the Mets for Soto. All the other teams used more typical PowerPoint presentations to make their cases. 

Cohen brought to the meeting his wife, Alex, and father-in-law. He also brought Edgar Suero, the Mets traveling secretary, who explained logistics and family perks.