It was announced earlier this week that the Mets will be purchasing the Syracuse Chiefs and moving their Triple-A team out of Vegas after the 2018 season. In buying the Chiefs, the Mets are creating some exciting new opportunities but also taking on some notable problems as they enter a new era.
The Syracuse Chiefs have a long history in the state of New York—longer, in fact, than the Mets. The Chiefs were founded in 1934 after the Jersey City Skeeters, a team that predated the founding of Major League Baseball and fled to Syracuse at the height of the great depression.