“I think that a change in ownership at the Mets is an opportunity to make that franchise as strong as it can possibly be, and I think over the long haul it’ll be something that will be good for the game,” commissioner Rob Manfred said during an online event hosted by the Hofstra University’s business school.

It’ll be up to the owners — whom Manfred works for — to approve Cohen, the Long Island native who grew up a Mets fan and on Monday finalized a $2.4 billion deal to purchase 95 percent of the the ball club from the Wilpon and Katz families?

Cohen will need 23 out of 30 votes in November to take control of the Mets, who likely won’t make the playoffs this season?

Cohen initially had a deal to purchase the Mets in February, but that fell apart after the two sides couldn’t agree how much influence the Wilpon family would be able to wield in the first five years of Cohen’s ownership?

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