2000 MLB season | |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | March 29 – October 26, 2000 |
Number of games | 162 |
Number of teams | 30 |
TV partner(s) | Fox/FSN/FX, ESPN, NBC |
Draft | |
Top draft pick | Adrián González |
Picked by | Florida Marlins |
Regular Season | |
Season MVP | AL: Jason Giambi (OAK) NL: Jeff Kent (SF) |
Postseason | |
AL champions | New York Yankees |
AL runners-up | Seattle Mariners |
NL champions | New York Mets |
NL runners-up | St. Louis Cardinals |
World Series | |
Champions | New York Yankees |
Runners-up | New York Mets |
World Series MVP | Derek Jeter (NYY) |
The 2000 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees defeating the New York Mets in five games, for their third consecutive World Series title. [1] The 2000 World Series was known as the Subway Series because both fans and the two teams could take the subway to and from every game of the series. [2]
A then-record 5,693 home runs were hit during the regular season in 2000 (the record was broken in 2017, when 6,105 home runs were hit). [1] Ten teams hit at least 200 home runs each, [3] while for the first time since 1989 and only the fifth since 1949 no pitcher pitched a no-hitter. [a] Also, no team reached 100 in either the win or loss column.
The separate American and National League offices were dissolved; with this, Major League Baseball became a single unified organization. As a result, the separate umpiring crews for each league were also dissolved; all umpiring crews now worked throughout the league.
American League
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Division Series (ALDS, NLDS) | League Championship Series (NLCS, ALCS) | World Series | ||||||||||||
1 | Chicago White Sox | 0 | ||||||||||||
4 | Seattle | 3 | ||||||||||||
4 | Seattle | 2 | ||||||||||||
American League | ||||||||||||||
3 | NY Yankees | 4 | ||||||||||||
2 | Oakland | 2 | ||||||||||||
3 | NY Yankees | 3 | ||||||||||||
AL3 | NY Yankees | 4 | ||||||||||||
NL4 | NY Mets | 1 | ||||||||||||
1 | San Francisco | 1 | ||||||||||||
4 | NY Mets | 3 | ||||||||||||
4 | NY Mets | 4 | ||||||||||||
National League | ||||||||||||||
2 | St. Louis | 1 | ||||||||||||
2 | St. Louis | 3 | ||||||||||||
3 | Atlanta | 0 |
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Team | Manager | Tenure |
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Anaheim Angels | Mike Scioscia [4] | 1st season |
Baltimore Orioles | Mike Hargrove [5] | 1st season |
Boston Red Sox | Jimy Williams [6] | 4th season |
Chicago White Sox | Jerry Manuel [7] | 3rd season |
Cleveland Indians | Charlie Manuel [8] | 1st season |
Detroit Tigers | Phil Garner [9] | 1st season |
Kansas City Royals | Tony Muser [10] | 4th season |
Minnesota Twins | Tom Kelly [11] | 15th season |
New York Yankees | Joe Torre [12] | 5th season |
Oakland Athletics | Art Howe [13] | 5th season |
Seattle Mariners | Lou Piniella [14] | 8th season |
Tampa Bay Devil Rays | Larry Rothschild [15] | 3rd season |
Texas Rangers | Johnny Oates [16] | 6th season |
Toronto Blue Jays | Jim Fregosi [17] | 2nd season |
Team | Manager | Tenure |
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Arizona Diamondbacks | Buck Showalter [18] | 3rd season |
Atlanta Braves | Bobby Cox [19] | 11th season |
Chicago Cubs | Don Baylor [20] | 1st season |
Cincinnati Reds | Jack McKeon [21] | 4th season |
Colorado Rockies | Buddy Bell [22] | 1st season |
Florida Marlins | John Boles Jr. [23] | 2nd season |
Houston Astros | Larry Dierker [24] | 4th season |
Los Angeles Dodgers | Davey Johnson [25] | 2nd season |
Milwaukee Brewers | Davey Lopes [26] | 1st season |
Montreal Expos | Felipe Alou [27] | 9th season |
New York Mets | Bobby Valentine [28] | 5th season |
Philadelphia Phillies | Terry Francona [29] | 4th season |
Pittsburgh Pirates | Gene Lamont [30] | 4th season |
St. Louis Cardinals | Tony La Russa [31] | 5th season |
San Diego Padres | Bruce Bochy [32] | 6th season |
San Francisco Giants | Dusty Baker [33] | 8th season |
Month | American League | National League |
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April | Jermaine Dye | Vladimir Guerrero |
May | Edgar Martínez | Todd Helton |
June | Albert Belle | Jeff Kent |
July | Johnny Damon | Sammy Sosa |
August | Glenallen Hill | Todd Helton |
September | Jason Giambi | Richard Hidalgo |
Month | American League | National League |
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April | Pedro Martínez | Randy Johnson |
May | James Baldwin | Garrett Stephenson |
June | Cal Eldred | Al Leiter |
July | Roger Clemens | Jeff D'Amico |
August | Steve Sparks | Russ Ortiz |
September | Tim Hudson | Greg Maddux |
Team name | Wins | %± | Home attendance | %± | Per game | Est. payroll | %± |
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Cleveland Indians [36] | 90 | -7.2% | 3,456,278 | -0.4% | 42,670 | $76,972,271 | 4.5% |
St. Louis Cardinals [37] | 95 | 26.7% | 3,336,493 | 3.4% | 41,191 | $61,653,863 | 23.3% |
San Francisco Giants [38] | 97 | 12.8% | 3,318,800 | 59.7% | 40,973 | $53,737,826 | 14.8% |
Baltimore Orioles [39] | 74 | -5.1% | 3,297,031 | -4.0% | 40,704 | $82,347,435 | 1.9% |
Colorado Rockies [40] | 82 | 13.9% | 3,295,129 | -5.3% | 40,681 | $61,111,190 | -1.3% |
Atlanta Braves [41] | 95 | -7.8% | 3,234,304 | -1.5% | 39,930 | $84,737,836 | 15.5% |
Houston Astros [42] | 72 | -25.8% | 3,056,139 | 12.9% | 37,730 | $51,289,111 | -6.9% |
New York Yankees [43] | 87 | -11.2% | 3,055,435 | -7.2% | 38,193 | $93,113,260 | 7.1% |
Arizona Diamondbacks [44] | 85 | -15.0% | 2,942,251 | -2.6% | 36,324 | $81,027,833 | 17.9% |
Seattle Mariners [45] | 91 | 15.2% | 2,914,624 | -0.1% | 35,983 | $60,495,000 | 11.8% |
Los Angeles Dodgers [46] | 86 | 11.7% | 2,880,242 | -6.9% | 35,559 | $88,124,286 | 8.7% |
New York Mets [47] | 94 | -3.1% | 2,820,530 | 3.5% | 34,821 | $79,509,776 | 15.5% |
Chicago Cubs [48] | 65 | -3.0% | 2,789,511 | -0.9% | 34,438 | $60,539,333 | -2.9% |
Texas Rangers [49] | 71 | -25.3% | 2,588,401 | -6.6% | 31,956 | $70,795,921 | -7.7% |
Boston Red Sox [50] | 85 | -9.6% | 2,585,895 | 5.7% | 31,925 | $79,975,333 | 24.8% |
Cincinnati Reds [51] | 85 | -11.5% | 2,577,371 | 25.0% | 31,431 | $46,867,200 | 38.0% |
Detroit Tigers [52] | 79 | 14.5% | 2,438,617 | 20.3% | 30,106 | $59,645,167 | 62.6% |
San Diego Padres [53] | 76 | 2.7% | 2,352,443 | -6.8% | 29,043 | $55,021,000 | 10.6% |
Anaheim Angels [54] | 82 | 17.1% | 2,066,982 | -8.3% | 25,518 | $52,664,167 | -5.3% |
Chicago White Sox [55] | 95 | 26.7% | 1,947,799 | 45.5% | 24,047 | $31,743,500 | 22.9% |
Pittsburgh Pirates [56] | 69 | -11.5% | 1,748,908 | 6.8% | 21,591 | $31,328,334 | 25.1% |
Toronto Blue Jays [57] | 83 | -1.2% | 1,705,712 | -21.2% | 21,058 | $46,038,332 | 1.3% |
Philadelphia Phillies [58] | 65 | -15.6% | 1,612,769 | -11.6% | 19,911 | $47,513,000 | 49.0% |
Oakland Athletics [58] | 91 | 4.6% | 1,603,744 | 11.8% | 19,799 | $33,172,333 | 33.6% |
Milwaukee Brewers [59] | 73 | -1.4% | 1,573,621 | -7.5% | 19,427 | $37,305,333 | -14.0% |
Kansas City Royals [60] | 77 | 20.3% | 1,564,847 | 3.9% | 19,319 | $24,903,000 | -6.6% |
Tampa Bay Devil Rays [61] | 69 | 0.0% | 1,449,673 | -7.2% | 18,121 | $63,265,129 | 62.8% |
Florida Marlins [62] | 79 | 23.4% | 1,218,326 | -11.0% | 15,041 | $20,347,000 | -3.5% |
Minnesota Twins [63] | 69 | 9.5% | 1,000,760 | -16.8% | 12,355 | $17,529,500 | -20.7% |
Montreal Expos [64] | 67 | -1.5% | 926,272 | 19.8% | 11,435 | $32,994,333 | 84.3% |
This was the fifth and final year of the rights agreements with ESPN, Fox, and NBC. ESPN continued to air Sunday Night Baseball and Wednesday Night Baseball . Fox's coverage included Fox Saturday Baseball broadcasts, Thursday night games on Fox Sports Net, and Saturday primetime games on FX. NBC aired the All-Star Game. During the postseason, ESPN, Fox, and NBC split the four Division Series. NBC then televised the American League Championship Series while Fox aired both the National League Championship Series and the World Series.
ESPN and Fox then signed new five-year and six-year deals, respectively, while NBC declined to renew in a cost-cutting move.
SEASON NOTE – This was the first time in MLB history in 100 years that no team finished with a winning percentage either below .400 or above .600. It is also the first time, in a full 162-game season, that no team achieved 100 wins or 99 losses.
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