the Mets tripple-A farm team is moving from New Orleans to Buffalo this year.
Good: Buffalo is much closer to NY, makes call-ups easier, and will better prepare minor leaguers or the cold they will encounter in NYC at the end of the season.
Bad: Buffalo? Really?
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A return to roots. Buffalo was the Mets AAA farm club in the early years, beginning (with the Mets) in '62; Kranepool played a doubleheader there on a Saturday in '63, was called up the next day, and played both ends of a doubleheader at Shea on Sunday, the second game going 24 innings; Krane was hoping for 27, so he could say he played the equivalent of six complete games in a weekend. Soon thereafter the AAA affiliate was Jacksonville, Fla, where I, while in the Navy, saw Seaver pitch in '66. Then it was Norfolk, which became "Tidewater;" and then New Orleans. So we're back to beginnings, or, in baseball terms, we've come home.
Thanks so much for the history lesson! As a baseball fan, the idea of coming home has a lot of appeal. I just wouldn't want to spend a lot of time in Buffalo, as a baseball player, in the spring. Very cold!
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