2002 Cincinnati Reds season

The 2002 Cincinnati Reds season was the 133rd season for the franchise in Major League Baseball. It consisted of the Reds finishing with a 78-84 record to finish in third place in the National League Central, 19 games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. The Reds were managed by Bob Boone. The 2002 Reds season was their final one in Cinergy Field.

Offseason

• January 7, 2002: José Rijo was signed as a free agent by the Reds.

Regular season

Notable transactions

• June 7, 2002: Ben Broussard was traded by the Reds to the Cleveland Indians for Russell Branyan.

Roster

2002 Cincinnati Reds
Roster
Pitchers 29 José Acevedo 59 Carlos Almanzar 53 Jim Brower 52 Bruce Chen 34 Ryan Dempster 45 Elmer Dessens 55 Shawn Estes 53 Jared Fernández 32 Danny Graves 50 Joey Hamilton 43 Jimmy Haynes 54 Luke Hudson 38 Brian Moehler 49 Luis Pineda 41 Chris Reitsma 46 John Riedling 27 José Rijo 39 José Silva 56 Scott Sullivan 36 Gabe White 48 Scott Williamson		Catchers 23 Jason LaRue 37 Corky Miller 31 Kelly Stinnett Infielders 17 Aaron Boone 21 Sean Casey  7 Juan Castro  3 Gookie Dawkins  6 Wilton Guerrero 11 Barry Larkin 16 Brandon Larson 12 Todd Walker		Outfielders 33 Russell Branyan 22 Brady Clark 44 Adam Dunn 34 Juan Encarnación 29 Raúl González 30 Ken Griffey Jr.  6 José Guillén 28 Austin Kearns 15 Rubén Mateo 26 Wily Mo Peña 19 Reggie Taylor		Manager  9 Bob Boone Coaches  2 José Cardenal (first base) 25 Ray Knight (bench) 10 Tim Foli (third base) 35 Don Gullett (pitching) 47 Tom Hume (bullpen)  4 Jim Lefebvre (hitting)

Game log

Template:Game log start Template:Game log section start |-style="background:#cfc" |1 || April 1 || Cubs || 5–4 || Graves || Fassero || — || 41,913 || 1–0 || || W1 |-style="background:#fbb" |2 || April 3 || Cubs || 3–10 || Wood || Dessens || — || 19,745 || 1–1 || || L1 |-style="background:#cfc" |3 || April 4 || Cubs || 3–1 || Acevedo || Cruz || Graves || 16,448 || 2–1 || || W1 |-style="background:#fbb" |4 || April 5 || Expos || 7–8 || Yoshii || Haynes || Lloyd || 17,123 || 2–2 || || L1 |-style="background:#fbb" |5 || April 6 || Expos || 2–5 || Ohka || Pineda || Lloyd || 18,176 || 2–3 || || L2 |-style="background:#cfc" |6 || April 7 || Expos || 6–5 || Sullivan || Lloyd || — || 17,549 || 3–3 || || W1 |-style="background:#fbb" |7 || April 8 || at Pirates || 0–1 || Villone || Dessens || Williams || 36,402 || 3–4 || || L1 |-style="background:#cfc" |8 || April 10 || at Pirates || 8–5 || Acevedo || Wells || Graves || 36,048 || 4–4 || || W1 |-style="background:#cfc" |9 || April 11 || at Pirates || 3–2 || Haynes || Anderson || Graves || 12,795 || 5–4 || || W2 |-style="background:#cfc" |10 || April 12 || at Phillies || 8–5 || Brower || Cormier || Graves || 13,366 || 6–4 || || W3 |-style="background:#cfc" |11 || April 13 || at Phillies || 5–2 || Hamilton || Person || Graves || 15,606 || 7–4 || || W4 |-style="background:#fbb" |12 || April 14 || at Phillies || 1–3 || Padilla || Dessens || Mesa || 19,195 || 7–5 || || L1 |-style="background:#fbb" |13 || April 16 || Astros || 3–8 || Mlicki || Acevedo || — || 15,853 || 7–6 || || L2 |-style="background:#fbb" |14 || April 17 || Astros || 2–7 || Hernández || Haynes || — || 14,527 || 7–7 || || L3 |-style="background:#cfc" |15 || April 18 || Astros || 5–4 || White || Cruz || — || 15,848 || 8–7 || || W1 |-style="background:#fbb" |16 || April 19 || at Cubs || 2–5 || Clement || Hamilton || Alfonseca || 33,949 || 8–8 || || L1 |-style="background:#cfc" |17 || April 20 || at Cubs || 6–1 || Dessens || Wood || — || 36,476 || 9–8 || || W1 |-style="background:#cfc" |18 || April 21 || at Cubs || 5–3 || Rijo || Cruz || Graves || 29,458 || 10–8 || || W2 |-style="background:#cfc" |19 || April 23 || Rockies || 3–2 || Haynes || Jennings || Graves || 14,518 || 11–8 || || W3 |-style="background:#cfc" |20 || April 24 || Rockies || 4–3 || Williamson || Jiménez || — || 13,004 || 12–8 || || W4 |-style="background:#cfc" |21 || April 25 || Rockies || 4–3 || Sullivan || White || Graves || 14,416 || 13–8 || || W5 |-style="background:#cfc" |22 || April 26 || Giants || 4–3 || Sullivan || Rodríguez || Graves || 28,341 || 14–8 || || W6 |-style="background:#cfc" |23 || April 27 || Giants || 8–4 || Rijo || Jensen || — || 22,616 || 15–8 || || W7 |-style="background:#fbb" |24 || April 28 || Giants || 4–5 || Rueter || Haynes || Nen || 23,426 || 15–9 || || L1 |-style="background:#cfc" |25 || April 30 || at Dodgers || 3–1 || Reitsma || Brown || Graves || 25, 178 || 16–9 || || W1 |-style = Template:Game log section end Template:Game log section start |-style="background:#cfc" |26 || May 1 || at Los Angeles Dodgers || 4–0 || Hamilton || Nomo || || 23,346 || 17–9 || || W2 |-style="background:#fbb" |27 || May 2 || at Los Angeles Dodgers || 2–3 || Carrara || Pineda || || 27,224 || 17–10 || L1 |-style="background:#fbb" |28 || May 3 || at San Francisco Giants || 1–6 || Rueter || Rijo || || 39,845 || 17–11 || || L2 |-style="background:#fbb" |29 || May 4 || at San Francisco Giants || 0–3 || Jensen || Haynes || Nen || 40,959 || 17–12 || || L3 |-style="background:#fbb" |30 || May 5 || at San Francisco Giants || 5–6 || Nen || Pineda || || 41,263 || 17–13 || || L4 |-style="background:#cfc" |31 || May 6 || Milwaukee Brewers || 8–5 || Brower || Quevedo || Graves || 12,867 ||18–13 || || W1 |-style="background:#cfc" |32||May 7||Milwaukee Brewers||8-2||Dessens||Rusch||16,167 |-style="background:#cfc" |33||Wednesday, May 8||2002 Milwaukee Brewers season||14-5||Acevedo||Neugebauer||15,691 |-style="background:#fbb" |34||May 10||St. Louis Cardinals season ||2-4||Stechschulte||White||Isringhausen||29,008|| || || |-style="background:#cfc" |35||May 11||St. Louis Cardinals season||8-1||Reitsm||Kile|||| 25,006 |-style="background:#cfc" |36||May 12||St. Louis Cardinals season||8-10||Stechschulte||Graves||Isringhausen||20,622 |-style="background:#cfc" |37|| May 13||@Milwaukee Brewers||5-0||Rijo||Cabrera||14,844 + |-style="background:#cfc" |38|| May 14||@Milwaukee Brewers||4-3|Acevedo||Quevedo||Graves||15,546 |-style="background:#cfc" |39||May 15||Milwaukee Brewers|7-4||Haynes||Stull||Graves||15,561 |-style="background:#cfc" |40|| May 16||Milwaukee Brewers||2-1||White||DeJean||Graves||||18,456 |-style="background:#fbb" |41||May 17||@St. Louis Cardinals season||1-3||Kile||Sullivan||Isringhausen||36,103 || || || |-style="background:#cfc" - |42||May 18||St. Louis Cardinals season|| 7-3||Rijo||Morris ||40,483 |-style="background:#fbb" |43|| May 19||@ St. Louis Cardinals season1-10||Stephenson||Acevedo ||42,992 |-style="background:#fbb" |44|| May 20||St. Louis Cardinals season||3-7||Williams||Haynes||35,560 |-style="background:#cfc" |45|| May 21||Florida Gators||6-1||Reitsma||Burnett Graves ||16,841 |-style="background:#cfc" |46||May 22||Florida Gators||6-2||Dessens||Dempster||20,314 |-style="background:#fbb" |47||May 23||Florida Gators||4-8||Tavarez||Rijo||Nunez||23,134 - |-style="background:#fbb" |48||May 24||@Atlanta Braves||2-11||Millwood||Hamilton||29,307 |-style="background:#cfc" |49||May 25||@ Atlanta Braves||6-4||Marquis||Graves||44,026 |-style="background:#fbb" |50||May 26||Atlanta Braves||5-7 Maddux||Reitsma||40,142 - |-style="background:#cfc" |51||May 28||@ Florida Marlinss||6-5||Graves||Nunez|| 7,386 |-style="background:#cfc" |52 ||May 29||@ Florida Marlins||8-2||Hamilton||Beckett||6,836 |-style="background:#cfc" |53||May 30||Florida Marlins ||W-4-1||Haynes||Olsen||Graves||6,140 |-style="background:#fbb" |54||May 31||Atlanta Braves||0-7||Maddux||Reitsma||38,777 - |- Template:Game log section end |- style="text-align:center;" | Legend:        = Win        = Loss        = Postponement
Bold = Reds team member Template:Game log end

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
C	Jason LaRue	113	353	88	.249	12	52
1B	Sean Casey	120	425	111	.261	6	42
2B	Todd Walker	155	612	183	.299	11	64
SS	Barry Larkin	145	507	124	.245	7	47
3B	Aaron Boone	162	606	146	.241	26	87
LF	Adam Dunn	158	535	133	.249	26	71
CF	Juan Encarnación	83	321	89	.277	16	51
RF	Austin Kearns	107	372	117	.315	13	56

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
Reggie Taylor	135	287	73	.254	9	38
Russell Branyan	84	217	53	.244	16	39
Ken Griffey Jr.	70	197	52	.264	8	23
Corky Miller	39	114	29	.254	3	15
José Guillén	31	109	27	.248	4	16
Kelly Stinnett	34	93	21	.226	3	13
Rubén Mateo	46	86	22	.256	2	7
Juan Castro	54	82	18	.220	2	11
Wilton Guerrero	59	78	19	.244	0	4
Brady Clark	51	66	10	.152	0	9
Brandon Larson	23	51	14	.275	4	13
Travis Dawkins	31	48	6	.125	0	0
Raúl González	10	23	6	.261	0	1
Wily Mo Peña	13	18	4	.222	1	1

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
Jimmy Haynes	34	196.2	15	10	4.12	126
Elmer Dessens	30	178.0	7	8	3.03	93
Ryan Dempster	15	88.2	5	5	6.19	66
Brian Moehler	10	43.1	2	4	6.02	18
Shawn Estes	6	28.0	1	3	7.71	17
José Acevedo	6	23.2	4	2	7.23	14

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
Chris Reitsma	32	138.1	6	12	3.64	84
Joey Hamilton	39	124.2	4	10	5.27	85
José Rijo	31	77.0	5	4	5.14	38
Jared Fernández	14	50.2	1	3	4.44	36

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
Danny Graves	68	7	3	32	3.19	58
Scott Sullivan	71	6	5	1	6.06	78
Scott Williamson	63	3	4	8	2.92	84
Gabe White	62	6	1	0	2.98	41
Bruce Chen	39	0	2	0	4.31	37
John Riedling	33	2	4	0	2.70	30
Luis Pineda	26	1	3	0	4.18	31
Jim Brower	22	2	0	0	3.89	24
José Silva	12	1	0	0	4.24	6
Carlos Almanzar	8	0	1	0	2.31	7
Luke Hudson	3	0	0	0	4.50	7

Farm system

Template:MLB Farm SystemLEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Stockton

References

• 2002 Cincinnati Reds season at Baseball Reference