Suddenly, the biggest player in baseball isn’t the slugger who hit 62 home runs, or ace pitchers or shortstops -- either the ones like Trea Turner and Xander Bogaerts who have signed big contracts, or the ones like Carlos Correa and Dansby Swanson waiting to sign them. The biggest player suddenly looks like Steve Cohen, the owner of the Mets.

Cohen, who’s on Twitter a lot during the season, hasn’t tweeted since Nov. 9, when he announced that the Mets had re-signed Edwin Díaz, their closer, this way:

You’d say Cohen has been speaking softly, except that he hasn’t been speaking at all on social media. But he and his club sure have been swinging a big stick.

To be clear, Cohen and the Mets haven’t signed every big free agent. They didn’t agree to a contract as big as the one Aaron Judge signed with the Yankees, or the one just south of that, at least in total value, that Trea Turner signed with the Phillies. And the Mets let their former ace, Jacob deGrom, sign a deal with the Rangers that will be worth at least $185 million.

What Cohen and his general manager Billy Eppler have done, more than three months before next season starts, is add more value to their baseball team, in terms of talent, than anybody else in the game has, at least before we find out where Correa, Carlos Rodón, and Swanson are going to land.

Here is what the Mets have done to fortify a team that won 101 games in 2022:

• Re-signed their closer, Edwin Díaz, as good as there was anywhere last season, for $102 million
• Signed the reigning American League Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, about to turn 40, for $86 million over the next two seasons.

• Retained their leadoff man, Brandon Nimmo, an emerging star, for $162 million and eight years.
• Traded for left-handed reliever Brooks Raley, an under-the-radar move that will give manager Buck Showalter the reliable left-handed reliever he didn’t have last time around.

• Agreed to terms with David Robertson, who pitched in the World Series for the Phillies, on a one-year, $10 million deal to set up Díaz.

• Signed José Quintana, a left-handed starter who finished the season with the Cardinals, for two years.

• And now, late on Saturday night, reports emerged that the Mets had come to terms with Japanese right-hander Kodai Senga, who had elicited interest all over the league, for five years and $75 million.

The other night, after it was announced that the Mets had retained Nimmo (“I called it a feel deal,” Showalter said. “How would we feel if we lost him?”), the Mets manager was asked if he thought the Mets were finished adding players, or just keeping the ones they had.

“Stay tuned,” he said.

Then Showalter paused and said, “We’ve got an owner who wants to win.”

And who knows, Cohen and the Mets might not yet be done.

The Padres, who beat the Mets in a Wild Card Series, added Xander Bogaerts, a two-time World Series champ with the Red Sox, to a lineup that already has Manny Machado, Juan Soto and Fernando Tatis Jr., when Tatis returns from a PED suspension in mid-April. The Phillies added Turner to a lineup that went toe-to-toe with a truly great Astros team in the World Series.

Even still, the Mets have done better than everybody, at least so far. They got Verlander to replace deGrom. They got Senga to likely replace Chris Bassitt, having already added Quintana to balance their rotation. They kept their closer and put two new setup men in front of him. And they held on to their center fielder and leadoff man, Nimmo, someone who fits the culture Showalter has established with the Mets perfectly.

None of this guarantees them anything in a grind of an NL East division that includes the 2021 World Series champs from Atlanta, and this year’s runner-up from Philadelphia. You can look up how rare it is for the biggest payroll to win the World Series. But at a time when other teams spent to get better, the guy with the deep pockets keeps going deep.