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No Longer Just a Summer Job at Coney Island, Cyclones Become Full-Time Work Force
Tuesday's introductory press conference for New York Mets incoming owner Steve Cohen included very comforting news for us Brooklyn Cyclones fans. The future of our Coney Island Nine is safe. In fact, they're being transitioned into a full-season affiliate. Pencil them into what should be a reconfigured high-A circuit, which I assume will include the Yankees new Hudson Valley Renegades affiliate.
In pairing down the farm system from seven teams down to four, Sandy Alderson announced Syracuse, Binghamton, Brooklyn, and Port St. Lucie will continue forward as the Mets affiliates. The GCL Mets, Kingsport Mets, and Columbia Fireflies are now out of the loop.
Brooklyn supplants Columbia as the new high-A affiliate while Port St. Lucie is demoted to low-A status. There is still speculation that Brooklyn could be named the double-A affiliate. In that scenario, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies would be the high-A team. When you plot Binghamton versus Hudson Valley and Brooklyn versus Somerset (Yankees new double-A affiliate), the logistics make perfect sense.
There's nothing necessarily new about the Cyclones versus the Renegades outside of the ongoing minor league reconfiguration. However, a potential Brooklyn versus Somerset rivalry would be brand new.
Sounds intriguing already ...
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