Midwest League 2000

Quad City River Bandits

Season Summary

• Second Half: 27-43, .386, 6th place tie, 13.0 behind
• First Half: 37-32, .536, 3rd place, 5.0 behind
• Pitching: 64-75, 3.68, 35 saves, 1015 strikeouts
• Hitting: .238, 581 runs, 68 HR, 77 steals (60% success)
• Errors: 194 (1.40 per game)
• April: 11-11 (.500)
• May: 18-12 (.600)
• June: 10-16 (.384)
• July: 13-16 (.448)
• August: 11-17 (.393)
• September: 1-3 (.250)

Pre-Season Profile

Manager

Stan Cliburn returns to affiliated baseball after several years as an indy-league manager. To all appearances, he's a fairly conventional manager.

First Round Draft Selection

• Ryan Mills (1998; 6th selection)

Team Age Information

• Average Team Age: 21.1
• Pitchers: 21.3
• Hitters: 21.0

• Oldest Player on the Team: Kevin Frederick (born 11/4/76)
• Youngest Player on the Team: Brian Wolfe (born 11/29/80)

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 Bandits are mainly players who played in Quad City or Elizabethton last summer. Those were good teams; this squad seems to have a good base.

Team            League             W/L    Place    Hitters Pitchers
                                         (Teams)
Fort Myers      Florida State (A+) 60/79 13(14)       1       2
Quad City       Midwest (A)        77/62  2(14)       4       6
Elizabethton    Appalachian (R+)   40/30  4(10)       7       4
Twins           Gulf Coast (R)     33/26  3(14)       1       3

There was only slight movement in the Twins system last season, though one new Bandit had stints on three teams (including, briefly, Double-A ball). Four of these players did not play professionally last summer (2 injuries; 2 college players).