Midwest League 2000

Lansing Lugnuts

Season Summary

• Second Half: 34-36, .486, 5th place, 14.0 behind
• First Half: 36-32, .529, 3rd place, 7.0 behind
• Pitching: 70-68, 4.09, 35 saves, 932 strikeouts
• Hitting: .262, 642 runs, 104 HR, 155 steals (69% success)
• Errors: 160 (1.16 per game)
• April: 7-11 (.389)
• May: 17-14 (.548)
• June: 17-11 (.607)
• July: 11-18 (.379)
• August: 16-12 (.571)
• September: 2-2 (.500)

Pre-Season Profile

Manager

Steve McFarland managed at Utica in the New York-Penn League a few years back, where he was a fairly conventional manager. The Blue Sox did sacrifice pretty regularly under his regime.

First Round Draft Selections

• none

Team Age Information

• Average Team Age: 21.4
• Pitchers: 20.9
• Hitters: 21.9

• Oldest Player on the Team: Bryan Warner (born 8/7/74)
• Youngest Player on the Team: Frangil Cordero (born 12/8/80)

The average player in the Midwest League is 21.6 years old. Average ages were calculated from the opening day roster; age as of July 1, 2000.

This website has more information about team ages.

Where they played last season

This is a brief portrait of how the team was put together. These summaries are based on the team's opening day roster and will not be revised to reflect roster changes.

Most of the Lugnuts played for Eugene last summer. It could be a long summer....

Team         League             W/L    Place    Hitters Pitchers
                                      (Teams)
Daytona      Florida State (A+) 63/75  11(14)      0       0
Lansing      Midwest (A)        73/67   6(14)      3       3
Eugene       Northwest (A-)     29/47   8(8)      10      11
Cubs         Arizona (R)        18/37   8(8)       3       6

The Cubs moved many of these pitchers last summer, though the position players tended to stay put. One of the Luggies played independent baseball last summer. None of these played any higher in the minors than Lansing.