Mets owner Steve Cohen tells The Post why he isnt worried about Juan Sotos slow start

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets.Steve Cohen isn’t fretting over Juan Soto’s slow start to his Mets tenure, saying on Monday that “I’m not worried about Juan” while praising other things the $765 million man has been doing at the plate thus far.Soto’s lack of power through the first full month of the season has caught some people’s attention after the Mets signed him to a massive contract this past winter.

Soto, who went 2-for-4 in the 19-5 win over the Nationals on Monday, has just three home runs on the season and hadn’t knocked a ball out of the park since April 15.But Cohen, who spoke with The Post’s Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman on the latest episode of “The Show” that was published on Monday, spoke highly of the “subtle” things that Soto has done at the plate that have helped the Mets.“The way that he works a count, makes pitchers throw extra pitches really matters.Then he gets on base, and then Pete [Alonso] can drive him in.

And so Pete’s seen better pitches,” Cohen said.“It’s very subtle how that works and you just can’t just look at it in a very narrow sense.

And saying that, listen, I’m not worried about Juan.“I mean, he is singularly focused on baseball, he’s a pure hitter and let’s have this discussion at the end of the year.”Soto was hitting .248/.374/.396 with a .770 OPS going into Monday, but was coming off a weekend where he had a pair of hits on Sunday and Friday against the Nats and reached base four times in Sunday’s 8-7 loss.Even with Soto’s slow start, the Mets have come out of the gate red-hot this season with an MLB-best 20-9 record and winning nine of their past 11 games.And, as of Monday, the 1986 Mets were only two games better than this year’s version of the Amazin’s at the same point of the season.However, throughout Mets history, sustained success has been hard to come by — ...