2000 MLB season | |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | March 29 – October 26, 2000 |
Number of games | 162 |
Number of teams | 30 |
TV partner(s) | Fox/FSN/FX, ESPN, NBC |
Draft | |
Top draft pick | Adrián González |
Picked by | Florida Marlins |
Regular Season | |
Season MVP | AL: Jason Giambi (OAK) NL: Jeff Kent (SF) |
Postseason | |
AL champions | New York Yankees |
AL runners-up | Seattle Mariners |
NL champions | New York Mets |
NL runners-up | St. Louis Cardinals |
World Series | |
Champions | New York Yankees |
Runners-up | New York Mets |
World Series MVP | Derek Jeter (NYY) |
The 2000 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees defeating the New York Mets in five games, for their third consecutive World Series title.[1] The 2000 World Series was known as the Subway Series because both fans and the two teams could take the subway to and from every game of the series.[2]
A then-record 5,693 home runs were hit during the regular season in 2000 (the record was broken in 2017, when 6,105 home runs were hit).[1] Ten teams hit at least 200 home runs each,[3] while for the first time since 1989 and only the fifth since 1949 no pitcher pitched a no-hitter.[a] Also, no team reached 100 in either the win or loss column.
The separate American and National League offices were dissolved; with this, Major League Baseball became a single unified organization. As a result, the separate umpiring crews for each league were also dissolved; all umpiring crews now worked throughout the league.