18
2012
Could Mets Triple-A Team Be Heading To Oklahoma?
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Updated 8/18 1:00 PM
Tim asked me yesterday to do some digging on this, and so I did. According to what a source from The Oklahoman with knowledge of the situation told me, the Oklahoma City Red Hawks are “not very keen” on renewing their PDC with the Houston Astros. The word is that the Mets are one of two teams that have some “strong appeal” to them. – JD
Original Post 8/17 8:15 AM
If reports in this mornings Democrat and Chronicle are accurate (and we have no reason to believe they aren’t), the Minnesota Twins and Rochester Red Wings are set to announce a new two year player development contract this afternoon. With the signing, the Buffalo Bisons will be the only team left in the fourteen team International League that has not resigned with their current parent club.
The D&C article took direct aim at the Mets and their ‘situation’ at the Triple A level as well, stating
The Buffalo Bisons are expected to drop the New York Mets as their parent club and perhaps sign with the Toronto Blue Jays. However, a Red Wings official said the Mets’ track record is not solid – Buffalo is their third Triple-A city in six years – and they are reluctant to take a chance on a new major-league club.
Out west, eight of the sixteen teams in the Pacific Coast League are still without agreement renewals with their current parent clubs. Oklahoma City, Nashville, Albuquerque, Fresno, Memphis, New Orleans, and Iowa – along with Las Vegas – are the current markets still somewhat ‘open’ at this point in the PCL.
League rules and agreements prohibit MLB teams from speaking with any minor league team other than those they are currently affiliated with until the minor league season comes to an end; this may explain why there hasn’t been any news out of Flushing, Buffalo, Toronto, or Las Vegas about the 2013 season as of yet, and a final decision may not be known in any of those locales until mid-September.
About the Author: Tim Burns
A Mets fan since birth, a Binghamton Mets fan since he watched them put the first shovel in the dirt in 1991 at Henry and Fayette Streets and every season since then, Tim is a vehement supporter - and at times defender - of Binghamton and his hometown team. From the days of Isringhausen, Pulsipher, and Wilson, to Reyes and Wright, all the way to present day den Dekker, Wheeler, and McHugh, he remembers when and is proud of all those that have graduated from the ballpark formerly known as Binghamton Municipal Stadium! Let's Go (B)Mets!
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We don’t need no stinkin’ triple A, that club is in the majors.
Buffalo has a great facility, I hope the Mets re-up with them, plus it is close for call-ups.
Buffalo is going with Toronto. That is 95% done according to Baseball America. Buffalo wants to win and they are fed up with the junk the Mets send them. If the Mets end up out west, and they likely will, that is awful news.
I think the Buffalo/Toronto deal is probably one of the worst kept secrets as far as team movement over the past year – we’ve all pretty much known since last fall this would be the last in Buffalo for the Mets. In that case, the Mets will end up out west – no IL teams left to hook up with. Who knows, maybe they won’t end up in Vegas but some other location in the PCL – with half the teams up for grabs, anything can happen.
Its sad as hell that the Mets ineptitude at the AAA level is going to force them out west. What a goddamned joke.
Sounds good to me. I live in Sacramento and could see them a few times a year.
Well if I had a choice then it would be between Memphis & Nashville. Hate they could not work it out with B-Lo.
Iowa and Memphis certainly stretch the boundaries of pacific coast just a tad…
Iowa? still not that close, but I have been to that stadium (for an Iowa Cubs game) in Des Moines, and it was a very nice facility. though the Cubs are a very logical fit for them (geographically and Fan Base).
Rochester Sports writers are terrible and have a huge anti-Mets pro-yankee agenda.
The whole Met’s/Buffalo comment has noting to do with the article and doesn’t make any sense. It’s just bad and lazy writing.
If you want to do a story about the Mets and Buffalo, then do it, but what does that have to do with Rochester and the Twins? The quote is out of place…
And the whole “we want a winner” and “tired of losing” crap that AAA cities cry about is BS and every city does it. Rochester has been whining about the Twins for the majority of the time they’ve been together and they’ve wanted to dump them for years…but they re-up all the time. It’s just a ploy that they do to get a better deal from the parent club.
As for the Mets moving, i hope they stay, I’ve gotten to see them play a bunch of times and I really enjoy it. But Teams jump around all the time, especially in recent years. I’ve seen a bunch of teams come and go in these upstate AAA cities the past few years. Everyone is looking for the better deal. And because there are a lot of good AAA cities in NY and not much else in the North East, they are in demand with the North East MLB teams. A lot of the teams in the IL have switched parent clubs at least once in the past decade.
As for the Mets moving, when they lost Norfolk and moved to New Orleans…everyone new it was a temporary move until a city in the North East opened up. There was some hope hope that they’d stay there, but wasn’t a reality.
The Mets used them like the rebound girl…have some fun and get a place to crash, but dumped them as soon as a better deal came around.
I love to see Ottawa or Montreal get a AAA bid eventually and for the Mets to go there.
Joe – thanks for the follow up and update! I know a few Mets fans that would be thrilled to have the Triple A team in OKC! Guess only time will tell…..
Wow, just think of all the frequent flier miles these guys would get.
I figured this was ok to be posted here.
Mets expect to be booted from Buffalo
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/54911/report-mets-to-be-booted-from-buffalo
The funny thing about this is that if the Wilpons (primarily Jeff, I’m told) had agreed to Brian Cashman’s deal to temporarily house the Yankee I. L. team in Newark this season, they would probably have more options for a Triple A affiliation on the East Coast. They could have bought a Triple A franchise, housed it in Newark in 2013 and worked on a deal for an up and coming East Coast market for 2014. It was a lose/lose deal for everybody when they shot the Cashman request down. Shortsighted…. but then again, these are the Wilpons. They should stick to building shopping centers and office buildings.