...and second prize is two weeks in the Detroit organization

[Chad ochoseis]

I was looking up Ed Kranepool's minor league stats on bbref and found this:

Year Age Tm Lg Lev Aff G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB

1962 17 Auburn NYPL D NYM 20 92 77 23 27 2 1 1 18 0 0 14 15 .351 .446 .442 .887 34 0 0 1
1962 17 Knoxville SALL A DET 7 20 18 4 5 3 0 0 0 0 2 2 .278 .350 .444 .794 8 0 0 0 0
1962 17 Syracuse IL AAA WSA,NYM 14 54 48 2 11 1 1 0 4 0 0 6 12 .229 .315 .292 .606 14 0 0 0

So he started out in the Mets' Class D NY-Penn affiliate. Easy enough. Before he was promoted, he played for Syracuse in the International League, which was shared by the Mets and the Senators. A little odd, but I think I'd heard somewhere that teams occasionally shared affiliates back in the day. I think they still do it in the Arizona Fall League.

What puzzles me is the second line. He played for the Tigers' Class A affiliate for a week.

Was/is there a rule that allows minor league players to be lent to other orgs for a short period of time? I could see this happening if the Tigers' org needed a short term 1B and the Mets wanted to promote Kranepool without taking up space on their affiliate's roster.

Anyone know the story here?

[G-Fafif]

Players would sometimes be loaned out to other affiliates without actually being traded or sent to the organization in question. Ron Washington, for example, played for Tidewater when it was the Mets without becoming Met property. Bob Gallagher in 1975 drifted to a non-Tide AAA club without ever leaving the Mets. That might be what's up there.