In 2000, skipper Mike Roberts, who had managed the team sixteen years earlier, returned to Wareham and led the team to a first-place finish in the West Division. Roberts' squad starred league MVP Mike Fontenot, Harvard fireballer Ben Crockett, who was co-recipient of the league's Outstanding Pitcher Award, and ace reliever Jonathan Gonzalez, who posted a microscopic 0.43 ERA. As in 1984, Roberts' second stint with the team would last only a year, as Cooper Farris would take over in 2001 and would pilot the club for 14 years, the team's all-time longest-tenured manager.