F 356030 014 15Jun99 Staten Island, New York Staten Island Yankees Class A Minor League Baseball. (Photo By Jonathan Elderfield/Getty Images)
The Yankees have left Staten Island, and now New York City wants to rebuild the stadium? Weird.
When the Yankees announced in a blaze of anger that they’d be moving on from Trenton and Staten Island as their minor-league homes for 2021, both communities were taken aback.
SI took things particularly hard, considering they’d built the team’s stadium two decades prior under the guidance of the Yankees, and had to weather accusations that it had fallen into disrepair, which was partially to blame for the team’s change of heart.