# 2000 Anaheim Angels season

The 2000 Anaheim Angels season was the 40th season of the Anaheim Angels franchise in the American League, the 35th in Anaheim, and their 35th season playing their home games at Edison International Field of Anaheim. The Angels finished third in the American League West with a record of 82 wins and 80 losses.
The Angels had an extremely powerful offense, with five players (Garret Anderson, Darin Erstad, Troy Glaus, Tim Salmon, and Mo Vaughn) hitting at least 25 homers and driving in 97 runs. Glaus led the AL in HRs, and Erstad had the most hits on his way to a .355 batting average. However, the pitching was very inconsistent. Reliever Shigetoshi Hasegawa led the team with 10 wins. Scott Schoeneweis led all starting pitchers in innings pitched with 170 and also led all starters (qualifying for ERA title) with a 5.45 ERA.

## Offseason

* November 17, 1999: The Angels hired Mike Scioscia as their new manager.
* January 11, 2000: Scott Spiezio was signed as a free agent with the Anaheim Angels.
* March 23, 2000: Kent Bottenfield was traded by the St. Louis Cardinals with Adam Kennedy to the Anaheim Angels for Jim Edmonds.

## Regular season
### Notable transactions

* July 29, 2000: Kent Bottenfield was traded by the Anaheim Angels to the Philadelphia Phillies for Ron Gant.

### Season standings

vteAL West :
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
| Oakland Athletics | 91 | 70 | .565 | — | 47‍–‍34 | 44‍–‍36 |
| Seattle Mariners | 91 | 71 | .562 | ½ | 47‍–‍34 | 44‍–‍37 |
| Anaheim Angels | 82 | 80 | .506 | 9½ | 46‍–‍35 | 36‍–‍45 |
| Texas Rangers | 71 | 91 | .438 | 20½ | 42‍–‍39 | 29‍–‍52 |

### Record vs. opponents

2000 American League recordvte Source: AL Standings Head-to-Head :
| Team | ANA | BAL | BOS | CWS | CLE | DET | KC | MIN | NYY | OAK | SEA | TB | TEX | TOR | NL |
| Anaheim | — | 7–5 | 5–4 | 4–6 | 3–6 | 5–5 | 6–6 | 7–3 | 5–5 | 5–8 | 5–8 | 6–6 | 7–5 | 5–7 | 12–6 |
| Baltimore | 5–7 | — | 5–7 | 4–6 | 5–4 | 6–4 | 3–7 | 6–3 | 5–7 | 4–8 | 3–7 | 8–5 | 6–6 | 7–6 | 7–11 |
| Boston | 4–5 | 7–5 | — | 7–5 | 6–6 | 7–5 | 4–6 | 8–2 | 6–7 | 5–5 | 5–5 | 6–6 | 7–3 | 4–8 | 9–9 |
| Chicago | 6–4 | 6–4 | 5–7 | — | 8–5 | 9–3 | 5–7 | 7–5 | 8–4 | 6–3 | 7–5 | 6–4 | 5–5 | 5–5 | 12–6 |
| Cleveland | 6–3 | 4–5 | 6–6 | 5–8 | — | 6–7 | 5–7 | 5–8 | 5–5 | 6–6 | 7–2 | 8–2 | 6–4 | 8–4 | 13–5 |
| Detroit | 5–5 | 4–6 | 5–7 | 3–9 | 7–6 | — | 5–7 | 7–6 | 8–4 | 6–4 | 7–2 | 4–5 | 5–5 | 3–9 | 10–8 |
| Kansas City | 6–6 | 7–3 | 6–4 | 7–5 | 7–5 | 7–5 | — | 7–5 | 2–8 | 4–8 | 4–8 | 5–5 | 3–7 | 4–6 | 8–10 |
| Minnesota | 3–7 | 3–6 | 2–8 | 5–7 | 8–5 | 6–7 | 5–7 | — | 5–5 | 5–7 | 3–9 | 4–6 | 8–4 | 5–4 | 7–11 |
| New York | 5–5 | 7–5 | 7–6 | 4–8 | 5–5 | 4–8 | 8–2 | 5–5 | — | 6–3 | 4–6 | 6–6 | 10–2 | 5–7 | 11–6 |
| Oakland | 8–5 | 8–4 | 5–5 | 3–6 | 6–6 | 4–6 | 8–4 | 7–5 | 3–6 | — | 9–4 | 7–2 | 5–7 | 7–3 | 11–7 |
| Seattle | 8–5 | 7–3 | 5–5 | 5–7 | 2–7 | 2–7 | 8–4 | 9–3 | 6–4 | 4–9 | — | 9–3 | 7–5 | 8–2 | 11–7 |
| Tampa Bay | 6–6 | 5–8 | 6–6 | 4–6 | 2–8 | 5–4 | 5–5 | 6–4 | 6–6 | 2–7 | 3–9 | — | 5–7 | 5–7 | 9–9 |
| Texas | 5–7 | 6–6 | 3–7 | 5–5 | 4–6 | 5–5 | 7–3 | 4–8 | 2–10 | 7–5 | 5–7 | 7–5 | — | 4–6 | 7–11 |
| Toronto | 7–5 | 6–7 | 8–4 | 5–5 | 4–8 | 9–3 | 6–4 | 4–5 | 7–5 | 3–7 | 2–8 | 7–5 | 6–4 | — | 9–9 |

### Roster
## 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 |
| CF | Garret Anderson | 159 | 647 | 185 | .286 | 35 | 117 |
| LF | Darin Erstad | 157 | 676 | 240 | .355 | 25 | 100 |
| SS | Benji Gil | 110 | 301 | 72 | .239 | 6 | 23 |
| 3B | Troy Glaus | 159 | 563 | 160 | .284 | 47 | 102 |
| 2B | Adam Kennedy | 156 | 598 | 159 | .266 | 9 | 72 |
| C | Bengie Molina | 130 | 473 | 133 | .281 | 14 | 71 |
| RF | Tim Salmon | 158 | 568 | 165 | .290 | 34 | 97 |
| DH | Scott Spiezio | 123 | 297 | 72 | .242 | 17 | 49 |
| 1B | Mo Vaughn | 161 | 614 | 167 | .272 | 36 | 117 |

#### 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 |
| Orlando Palmeiro | 108 | 243 | 73 | .300 | 0 | 25 |
| Kevin Stocker | 70 | 229 | 45 | .197 | 0 | 16 |
| Matt Walbeck | 47 | 146 | 29 | .199 | 6 | 12 |
| Ron Gant | 34 | 82 | 19 | .232 | 6 | 16 |
| Edgard Clemente | 46 | 78 | 17 | .218 | 0 | 5 |
| Gary Disarcina | 12 | 38 | 15 | .395 | 1 | 11 |
| Justin Baughman | 16 | 22 | 5 | .227 | 0 | 0 |
| Keith Luuloa | 6 | 18 | 6 | .333 | 0 | 0 |
| Shawn Wooten | 7 | 9 | 5 | .556 | 0 | 1 |
| Keith Johnson | 6 | 4 | 2 | .500 | 0 | 0 |
| Trent Durrington | 4 | 3 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 |

### Pitching
#### Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
| Scott Schoeneweis | 27 | 170.0 | 7 | 10 | 5.45 | 78 |
| Kent Bottenfield | 21 | 127.2 | 7 | 8 | 5.71 | 75 |
| Ramón Ortiz | 18 | 111.1 | 8 | 6 | 5.09 | 73 |
| Brian Cooper | 15 | 87.0 | 4 | 8 | 5.90 | 36 |
| Jarrod Washburn | 14 | 84.1 | 7 | 2 | 3.74 | 49 |
| Ken Hill | 16 | 78.2 | 5 | 7 | 6.52 | 50 |
| Seth Etherton | 11 | 60.1 | 5 | 1 | 5.52 | 32 |
| Tim Belcher | 9 | 40.2 | 4 | 5 | 6.86 | 22 |
| Matt Wise | 8 | 37.1 | 3 | 3 | 5.54 | 20 |
| Jason Dickson | 6 | 28.0 | 2 | 2 | 6.11 | 18 |

#### Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
| Kent Mercker | 21 | 48.1 | 1 | 3 | 6.52 | 30 |
| Scott Karl | 6 | 21.2 | 2 | 2 | 6.65 | 9 |

##### Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | W | L | SV | ERA | SO |
| Troy Percival | 54 | 5 | 5 | 32 | 4.50 | 49 |
| Shigetoshi Hasegawa | 66 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 3.48 | 59 |
| Mark Petkovsek | 64 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4.33 | 31 |
| Mike Holtz | 61 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5.05 | 40 |
| Al Levine | 51 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3.87 | 42 |
| Mike Fyhrie | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.39 | 43 |
| Lou Pote | 32 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.40 | 44 |
| Derrick Turnbow | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.74 | 25 |
| Eric Weaver | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6.87 | 8 |
| Juan Alvarez | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.50 | 2 |
| Ben Weber | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.84 | 8 |
| Bryan Ward | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.63 | 3 |
| Brett Hinchliffe | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.40 | 0 |

## Awards and league leaders

Darin Erstad
* All-Star
* AL Gold Glove (OF)
* AL Silver Slugger Award (OF)
* AL leader in hits (240)
* #2 in AL in batting average (.355)
* #3 in AL in runs scored (121)
Troy Glaus
* All-Star
* AL Silver Slugger Award (3B)
* AL leader in home runs (47)
* #5 in AL in runs scored (120)

## Farm system

| Level | Team | League | Manager |
| AAA | Edmonton Trappers | Pacific Coast League | Garry Templeton |
| AA | Erie SeaWolves | Eastern League | Don Wakamatsu |
| A | Lake Elsinore Storm | California League | Mario Mendoza |
| A | Cedar Rapids Kernels | Midwest League | Mitch Seoane and Tyrone Boykin |
| A-Short Season | Boise Hawks | Northwest League | Tom Kotchman |
| Rookie | Butte Copper Kings | Pioneer League | Joe Urso |