Midwest League 2000

Clinton LumberKings

Season Summary

• Second Half: 38-33, .543, 2nd place tie, 2.0 behind
• First Half: 33-37, .471, 5th place, 9.5 behind
• Pitching: 71-69, 3.84, 34 saves, 1122 strikeouts
• Hitting: .254, 655 runs, 99 HR, 148 steals (69% success)
• Errors: 195 (1.39 per game)
• April: 11-10 (.524)
• May: 15-15 (.500)
• June: 12-15 (.444)
• July: 15-14 (.517)
• August: 16-13 (.552)
• September: 2-2 (.500)

Pre-Season Profile

Manager

This is Jay Sorg's first stint as a professional manager.

First Round Draft Selections

• none

Team Age Information

• Average Team Age: 21.9
• Pitchers: 22.5
• Hitters: 21.4

• Oldest Player on the Team: Dustin Robinson (born 9/13/75)
• Youngest Player on the Team: John Koronka (born 7/3/80)

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.

This year's LumberKings are based on last summer's Billings team, which was pretty good despite its middle-of-the-pack finish. The rest of the players came from throughout the Reds system.

Team        League             W/L   Place    Hitters Pitchers
                                    (Teams)
Rockford    Midwest (A)        76/63  4(14)      2        2
Clinton     Midwest (A)        68/69  8(14)      5        4
Billings    Pioneer (R+)       42/33  4(8)      10        7
Reds        Gulf Coast (R)     23/37 14(14)      4        3

There was lots of movement in the Reds system last year; many of these players show up in two teams' counts on the table. All of these players had Cincy contracts last summer, and none of them have appeared above Class A.