2000 St. Louis Cardinals season

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2000 St. Louis Cardinals
National League Central champions
St Louis Cardinals Cap Insignia.svg
Major League affiliations
Location
  • Busch Memorial Stadium (since 1966)
  • St. Louis, Missouri (since 1882)
Results
Record95–67 (.586)
Divisional place1st
Other information
Owner(s)William DeWitt, Jr.
General manager(s)Walt Jocketty
Manager(s)Tony La Russa
Local televisionFox Sports Midwest
KPLR
(Al Hrabosky, Bob Carpenter, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Buck)
Local radioKMOX
(Jack Buck, Mike Shannon, Joe Buck)
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The season's eventual National League Central Division champions St. Louis Cardinals playing host to the Chicago Cubs during a September 2000 game at Busch Memorial Stadium.

The St. Louis Cardinals 2000 season was the team's 119th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 109th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 95-67 during the season, their best finish since 1987, and won the National League Central division by ten games over the Cincinnati Reds. In the playoffs the Cardinals defeated the Atlanta Braves 3 games to 0 in the NLDS but lost to the New York Mets 4 games to 1 in the NLCS.

The Cardinals sweep of the Braves in the NLDS was notable because it made the Mets run to their first World Series appearance since their championship season of 1986 much easier.[1][2] The Braves had eliminated the Mets from the playoffs on the final day of the 1998 season and in the 1999 NLCS.[2]

Catcher Mike Matheny and outfielder Jim Edmonds won Gold Gloves this year. Matheny was acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays during the off-season, while Edmonds was acquired from the Anaheim Angels less than a week before the start of the season.

Offseason[]

  • November 11, 1999: Alberto Castillo, Matt DeWitt, and Lance Painter were traded by the Cardinals to the Toronto Blue Jays for Paul Spoljaric and Pat Hentgen.[3]
  • November 16, 1999: Manny Aybar, Brent Butler, Rich Croushore, and José Jiménez were traded by the Cardinals to the Colorado Rockies for Darryl Kile, Luther Hackman and Dave Veres.[4]
  • November 24, 1999: Heathcliff Slocumb was signed as a free agent by the Cardinals.[5]
  • December 15, 1999: Luis Ordaz was traded by the Cardinals to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Dante Powell.[6]
  • January 5, 2000: Ernie Young was signed as a Free Agent with the St. Louis Cardinals.[7]
  • March 18, 2000: Joe McEwing was traded by the Cardinals to the New York Mets for Jesse Orosco.[8]
  • March 23, 2000: Kent Bottenfield was traded by the St. Louis Cardinals with Adam Kennedy to the Anaheim Angels for Jim Edmonds.[9]

Regular season[]

Opening Day starters[]

  • Eric Davis
  • Jim Edmonds
  • Darryl Kile
  • Ray Lankford
  • Mike Matheny
  • Craig Paquette
  • Édgar Rentería
  • Fernando Tatís
  • Fernando Viña

Season standings[]

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NL Central 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
St. Louis Cardinals 95 67 0.586 — 50–31 45–36
Cincinnati Reds 85 77 0.525 10 43–38 42–39
Milwaukee Brewers 73 89 0.451 22 42–39 31–50
Houston Astros 72 90 0.444 23 39–42 33–48
Pittsburgh Pirates 69 93 0.426 26 37–44 32–49
Chicago Cubs 65 97 0.401 30 38–43 27–54

Record vs. opponents[]

2000 National League Records
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Source: NL Standings Head-to-Head
Team ARI ATL CHC CIN COL FLA HOU LAD MIL MON NYM PHI PIT SD SF STL AL
Arizona — 3–6 5–4 2–5 7–6 4–5 6–1 7–6 4–5 4–5 2–7 8–1 7–2 9–4 6–7 5–4 6–9
Atlanta 6–3 — 4–5 2–5 5–4 6–6 5–4 7–2 6–3 6–7 7–6 8–5 5–2 8–1 6–3 3–4 11–7
Chicago 4–5 5–4 — 4–8 4–5 1–6 5–7 3–6 6–7 4–5 2–5 6–3 3–9 3–5 4–5 3–10 8–7
Cincinnati 5–2 5–2 8–4 — 6–3 3–6 7–5 4–5 5–8–1 6–3 5–4 3–4 7–6 4–5 3–6 7–6 7–8
Colorado 6–7 4–5 5–4 3–6 — 4–5 5–4 4–9 4–5 7–2 3–6 6–3 7–2 7–6 6–7 5–3 6–6
Florida 5–4 6–6 6–1 6–3 5–4 — 3–5 2–7 3–4 7–6 6–6 9–4 5–4 2–7 3–6 3–6 8–9
Houston 1–6 4–5 7–5 5–7 4–5 5–3 — 3–6 7–6 4–5 2–5 5–4 10–3 2–7 1–8 6–6 6–9
Los Angeles 6–7 2–7 6–3 5–4 9–4 7–2 6–3 — 3–4 5–3 4–5 5–4 4–5 8–5 7–5 3–6 6–9
Milwaukee 5–4 3–6 7–6 8–5–1 5–4 4–3 6–7 4–3 — 4–5 2–7 2–5 7–5 2–7 3–6 5–7 6–9
Montreal 5–4 7–6 5–4 3–6 2–7 6–7 5–4 3–5 5–4 — 3–9 5–7 3–4 3–6 3–6 2–5 7–11
New York 7–2 6–7 5–2 4–5 6–3 6–6 5–2 5–4 7–2 9–3 — 6–7 7–2 3–6 3–5 6–3 9–9
Philadelphia 1–8 5–8 3–6 4–3 3–6 4–9 4–5 4–5 5–2 7–5 7–6 — 3–6 2–5 2–7 2–7 9–9
Pittsburgh 2–7 2–5 9–3 6–7 2–7 4–5 3–10 5–4 5–7 4–3 2–7 6–3 — 7–2 2–6 4–8 6–9
San Diego 4–9 1–8 5–3 5–4 6–7 7–2 7–2 5–8 7–2 6–3 6–3 5–2 2–7 — 5–7 0–9 5–10
San Francisco 7–6 3–6 5–4 6–3 7–6 6–3 8–1 5–7 6–3 6–3 5–3 7–2 6–2 7–5 — 5–4 8–7
St. Louis 4–5 4–3 10–3 6–7 3–5 6–3 6–6 6–3 7–5 5–2 3–6 7–2 8–4 9–0 4–5 — 7–8

Transactions[]

  • June 5: Released Mike Mohler.[10]
  • July 31: Traded Heathcliff Slocumb and Ben Johnson to the San Diego Padres for Carlos Hernández and Nate Tebbs (minors).[5]
  • July 31: Traded José León with cash to the Baltimore Orioles for Will Clark.[11] Acquired to play in place of the injured Mark McGwire, Clark responded with a .964 OPS and hit a home run in each of his first four games with the new club. He performed better in the 2000 playoffs (.345 BA) than in recent years. After announcing that his retirement would come when the Cardinals' playoff run ended, Clark went 1 for 3 in his final game on October 16, 2000, in the NLCS against the New York Mets,

Roster[]

2000 St. Louis Cardinals
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders
  • 24 Eric Davis
  •  7 J. D. Drew
  • 12 Shawon Dunston
  • 15 Jim Edmonds
  •  5 Thomas Howard
  • 16 Ray Lankford
  •  8 Chris Richard
  • 13 Luis Saturria
 Manager
  • 10 Tony La Russa

Coaches

Player stats[]

Batting[]

Starters by position[]

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
C Mike Matheny 128 417 109 .261 6 47
1B Mark McGwire 89 236 72 .305 32 73
2B Fernando Viña 123 487 146 .300 4 31
SS Édgar Rentería 150 562 156 .278 16 76
3B Fernando Tatís 96 324 82 .253 18 64
LF Ray Lankford 128 392 99 .253 26 65
CF Jim Edmonds 152 525 155 .295 42 108
RF J.D. Drew 135 407 120 .295 18 57

Other batters[]

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Craig Paquette 134 384 94 .245 15 61
Plácido Polanco 118 323 102 .316 5 39
Eric Davis 92 254 77 .303 6 40
Shawon Dunston 98 216 54 .250 12 43
Will Clark 51 171 59 .345 12 42
Thomas Howard 86 133 28 .211 6 28
Eli Marrero 53 102 23 .225 5 17
Eduardo Pérez 35 91 27 .297 3 10
Carlos Hernández 17 51 14 .275 1 10
Larry Sutton 23 25 8 .320 1 6
Chris Richard 6 16 2 .125 1 1
Rick Wilkins 4 11 3 .273 0 1
Keith McDonald 6 7 3 .429 3 5
Luis Saturria 6 5 0 .000 0 0

Pitching[]

Starting pitchers[]

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Darryl Kile 34 232.1 20 9 3.91 192
Garrett Stephenson 32 200.1 16 9 4.49 123
Pat Hentgen 33 194.1 15 12 4.72 118
Rick Ankiel 31 175 11 7 3.50 194
Andy Benes 30 166 12 9 4.88 137
Britt Reames 8 40.2 2 1 2.88 31

Other pitchers[]

Player G IP W L ERA SO

N/A

Relief pitchers[]

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Dave Veres 71 3 5 29 2.85 67
Mike James 51 2 2 2 3.16 41
Heathcliff Slocumb 43 2 3 1 5.44 34
Matt Morris 31 3 3 4 3.57 34
Alan Benes 30 2 2 0 5.67 26
Mike Timlin 25 3 1 1 3.34 26
Mike Mohler 22 1 1 0 9.00 8
Jason Christiansen 21 1 0 0 5.40 12
Gene Stechschulte 20 1 0 0 6.31 12
Mark Thompson 20 1 1 0 5.04 19
Mike Matthews 14 0 0 0 11.57 8
Dave Wainhouse 9 0 1 0 9.35 5
José Rodríguez 6 0 0 0 0.00 2
Jesse Orosco 6 0 0 0 3.86 4
Darren Holmes 5 0 1 0 9.72 5
Justin Brunette 4 0 0 0 5.79 2
Luther Hackman 1 0 0 0 10.13 0
Scott Radinsky 1 0 0 0 --- 0

NLDS[]

Main article: 2000 National League Division Series

St. Louis won series, 3-0. This was the series in which pitching phenom Rick Ankiel permanently lost his command and control, throwing four wild pitches in one inning.

Game Score Date
1 St. Louis 7, Atlanta 5 October 3
2 St. Louis 10, Atlanta 4 October 5
3 St. Louis 7, Atlanta 1 October 7

NLCS[]

Main article: 2000 National League Championship Series

Game 1[]

October 11: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 6 8 3
St. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 0
WP: Mike Hampton (1-0)   LP: Darryl Kile (0-1)
Home runs:
NYM: Todd Zeile (1), Jay Payton (1)
STL: None

Game 2[]

October 12: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 6 9 0
St. Louis 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 5 10 3
WP: Turk Wendell (1-0)   LP: Mike Timlin (0-1)   Sv: Armando Benítez (1)
Home runs:
NYM: Mike Piazza (1)
STL: None

Game 3[]

October 14: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
St. Louis 2 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 8 14 0
New York 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 1
WP: Andy Benes (1-0)   LP: Rick Reed (0-1)

Game 4[]

October 15: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
St. Louis 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 6 11 2
New York 4 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 X 10 9 0
WP: Glendon Rusch (1-0)   LP: Darryl Kile (0-2)
Home runs:
STL: Jim Edmonds (1); Will Clark (1)
NYM: Mike Piazza (2)

Game 5[]

October 16: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
St. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
New York 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 X 7 10 0
WP: Mike Hampton (2-0)   LP: Pat Hentgen (0-1)

Farm system[]

See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Memphis Redbirds Pacific Coast League Gaylen Pitts
AA Arkansas Travelers Texas League Chris Maloney
A Potomac Cannons Carolina League
A Peoria Chiefs Midwest League Tom Lawless
A-Short Season New Jersey Cardinals New York–Penn League
Rookie Johnson City Cardinals Appalachian League Luis Meléndez

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Memphis[12]

References[]

  1. ^ Chass, Murray (October 17, 2000). "From Wild Card to World Series". New York Times.
  2. ^ a b The subway series: the Yankees, the Mets and a season to remember. St. Louis, Mo.: The Sporting News. 2000. ISBN 0-89204-659-7.
  3. ^ Paul Spoljaric at Baseball-Reference
  4. ^ Darryl Kile at Baseball-Reference
  5. ^ a b Heathcliff Slocumb at Baseball-Reference
  6. ^ Dante Powell at Baseball-Reference
  7. ^ "Ernie Young Stats".
  8. ^ Jesse Orosco at Baseball-Reference
  9. ^ "Kent Bottenfield Stats".
  10. ^ "Mike Mohler Stats".
  11. ^ Will Clark at Baseball-Reference
  12. ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

External links[]

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