Mets players react to As new temporary home

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— It’s not perfect, but it’s home.As the Athletics — baseball’s foremost vagabond franchise — await their next destination, they are committed to spending three seasons playing home games at Sutter Health Park, a 14,000-seat facility they share with the Sacramento River Cats of the Pacific Coast League.Such is the plight of a franchise that began in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City, Mo., and then Oakland, with a new $1.75 billion stadium planned to open in Las Vegas in 2028.For the A’s players, the only option is acceptance of the new surroundings.“The situation that we have right now is not the best,” Luis Severino said before the Mets’ 3-1 loss to the A’s.“We just have to adjust to what we have and try to do the best we can.”The biggest adjustment for players is clubhouse space and the location of those facilities.

Unlike other ballparks that host MLB teams, the clubhouses here are detached from the dugouts and located beyond the left-field fence.Much in the spirit of the Polo Grounds — the Mets’ home for two seasons upon their inception in 1962 — players enter and exit the field before and after the game by walking through the outfield.The logistics are particularly difficult for bench players accustomed to taking swings in the indoor batting cage during the game.Instead of just walking through a dugout tunnel to a nearby cage, players must now navigate traffic, waiting until between innings to venture beyond the left field fence, where the cages are located.“Everything is still new, but the staff and everything they have done to the ballpark, a lot of work has gone into it — making sure it’s as close to big league as possible,” A’s outfielder Seth Brown said.

“There’s always going to be things that pop up the first year of this place.But every t...