PORT ST. LUCIE — The debate over who the next Mets captain will be is over, at least for the foreseeable future.

It won’t be anybody.

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Mets owner Steve Cohen said Monday that as long as he owns the team, the title “captain” won’t be bestowed on a player.

“There will never be a captain,” Cohen said.

He added the decision is based on how he would like to see the clubhouse run.

“Every year a team is different,” Cohen said. “And let the team figure it out in the locker room rather than have a designation. Having a captain in baseball doesn’t happen often — it’s actually unusual. Whatever previous ownership did, that was their way of doing things. I look at things differently.”

In recent seasons, Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo and Pete Alonso emerged as potential captains. Nimmo and Alonso departed the organization after last season, which appeared to clear the way for Lindor to land the title.

David Wright, who played his final game for the Mets in 2018, was the team’s last captain. Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter and John Franco have also carried the title for the Mets.

“Since I’ve been sitting in this chair, we have been pretty consistent with the captain, and there’s a reason we haven’t named one,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “The way I see it, the way we see it, is we have a bunch of guys there that are part of that leadership group. We lost a few guys that were part of that leadership group and then we have gained some guys who have done that.

“I think when you’re talking about a major league locker room, you need to have not only one guy, but a few guys. That is what makes teams great, so it’s nothing new for us.”

Cohen touched on numerous topics during his annual spring training news conference, including his disappointment that the team failed to reach the postseason last year.

“We haven’t won and I really want to win,” Cohen said. “Each year it goes by, I get more annoyed.”

Cohen said he’s committed to the game and how much the fans care.

“I know we’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of 1986, and that’s just too long,” Cohen said, referring to the Mets’ last World Series title. “There’s a lot of great teams out there. No matter what you do, it doesn’t mean you [will win it] with a really good team.”

Compounding Cohen’s frustration was that last season’s second-half collapse, which kept the team out of the playoffs, followed a magical 2024 in which the Mets reached Game 6 of the NLCS.

“You just never know what the season is going to bring,” Cohen said. “In ’24 we weren’t very good out of the gate and then it turned completely around. In ’25 we were in first place in June and then did the opposite. The longer I’ve been here, the more I realize that all I can do is commit the resources, allow my baseball people to pick the players and then a lot of it goes year to year and it’s dependent on injuries and a lot of things.”

The two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers reloaded in the offseason, adding free agents Kyle Tucker and Edwin Díaz, among others, to an already loaded roster. Cohen was asked about the Dodgers having potentially widened their gap on the competition.

“They are formidable,” Cohen said. “They have the ability to spend — so do I, by the way. They have built a great team, but I think we have built a great team and I think we’re going to be real competitive this year and the goal is to meet them somewhere along the way in the playoffs.”