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The Binghamton Mets are a minor league baseball team based in Binghamton, New York. The team, which plays in the Eastern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the New York Mets major-league club. The Mets play in NYSEG Binghamton Mets Tickets Stadium, located in Binghamton.

The current franchise began as the Williamsport Bills in 1987, but was affiliated with several different major-league teams during its five seasons. The parent New York Mets bought the Bills franchise in late 1990 and announced they would move the club a short distance north to Binghamton. The Bills played out their final season in Williamsport in 1991 while a new stadium was constructed. Then, in 1992, minor league baseball was back in the Triple Cities for the first time in 24 years. (The Binghamton Triplets, a New York Yankee affiliate, had played at Johnson Field in nearby Johnson City until 1968.)

In their first year as the Binghamton Mets, the team set a still-standing attendance record by drawing just over a quarter-million fans to the ballpark. They also proceeded to win the Eastern League championship

In 1994, the New York parent club sold ownership of the team to a group of local investors led by Binghamton Mets Tickets Michael Urda. That year, the team went on to another EL title and a league-best record of 82-59. Binghamton also hosted the double-A All-Star Game in July of that year.

The Mets alternated between 2nd- and 4th-place finishes for the next four years, and although they made the playoffs with their runner-up showings in 1996 and 1998, they were eliminated in the first round both times. Binghamton Mets Tickets

After a dreadful season in 1999 where the team finished 38 Binghamton Mets Tickets games out of first place, the Mets pulled off a "worst-to-first" turnaround in 2000, winning the EL Northern Division but losing to New Haven in the playoffs. Binghamton Mets Tickets posted identical 73-68 records Binghamton Mets Tickets in both 2001 and 2002 but failed to make the postseason.