Top 25 Home Runs in 2000 in the National League

Home Runs : 2000 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

2000 Home Runs Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Home Runs Team Rank

Sammy Sosa 50 Chicago Cubs 1

Barry Bonds 49 San Francisco Giants 2

Jeff Bagwell 47 Houston Astros 3

Vladimir Guerrero 44 Montreal Expos 4

Richard Hidalgo 44 Houston Astros

Gary Sheffield 43 Los Angeles Dodgers 6

Jim Edmonds 42 St. Louis Cardinals 7

Todd Helton 42 Colorado Rockies

Ken Griffey, Jr. 40 Cincinnati Reds 9

Mike Piazza 38 New York Mets 10

Andruw Jones 36 Atlanta Braves 11

Chipper Jones 36 Atlanta Braves

Steve Finley 35 Arizona Diamondbacks 13

Brian Giles 35 Pittsburgh Pirates

Geoff Jenkins 34 Milwaukee Brewers 15

Jeff Kent 33 San Francisco Giants 16

Mark McGwire 32 St. Louis Cardinals 17

Jeromy Burnitz 31 Milwaukee Brewers 18

Luis Gonzalez 31 Arizona Diamondbacks

Eric Karros 31 Los Angeles Dodgers

Phil Nevin 31 San Diego Padres

Preston Wilson 31 Florida Marlins

Moises Alou 30 Houston Astros 23

Andres Galarraga 28 Atlanta Braves 24

Derrek Lee 28 Florida Marlins

Name Home Runs Team Rank

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox � including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).

Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number.

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