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

Season standings

National League Central

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Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
St. Louis Cardinals	97	65	.599	—	52‍–‍29	45‍–‍36
Houston Astros	84	78	.519	13	47‍–‍34	37‍–‍44
Cincinnati Reds	78	84	.481	19	38‍–‍43	40‍–‍41
Pittsburgh Pirates	72	89	.447	24½	38‍–‍42	34‍–‍47
Chicago Cubs	67	95	.414	30	36‍–‍45	31‍–‍50
Milwaukee Brewers	56	106	.346	41	31‍–‍50	25‍–‍56

Record vs. opponents

2002 National League record v t e Source:
Team	AZ	ATL	CHC	CIN	COL	FLA	HOU	LA	MIL	MTL	NYM	PHI	PIT	SD	SF	STL	AL
Arizona	—	3–3	4–2	6–0	14–5	5–1	3–3	9–10	4–2	4–2	5–2	4–3	4–2	12–7	8–11	2–4	11–7
Atlanta	3–3	—	4–2	4–2	4–3	11–8	3–3	2–4	5–1	13–6	12–7	11–7	3–3	3–3	3–3	5–1	15–3
Chicago	2–4	2–4	—	5–12	4–2	4–2	8–11	2–4	7–10	3–3	1–5	2–4	10–9	2–4	3–3	6–12	6–6
Cincinnati	0–6	2–4	12–5	—	3–3	5–1	6–11	4–2	13–6	1–5	2–4	2–4	11–7	5–1	2–4	8–11	2–10
Colorado	5–14	3–4	2–4	3–3	—	5–2	3–3	7–12	3–3	4–2	3–3	3–3	4–2	11–8	8–12	2–4	7–11
Florida	1–5	8–11	2–4	1–5	2–5	—	3–3	3–3	4–2	10–9	8–11	10–9	4–2	5–1	4–3	4–2	10–8
Houston	3–3	3–3	11–8	11–6	3–3	3–3	—	3–3	10–8	3–3	4–2	3–3	11–6	4–2	1–5	6–13	5–7
Los Angeles	10–9	4–2	4–2	2–4	12–7	3–3	3–3	—	5–1	5–2	4–2	4–3	4–2	10–9	8–11	2–4	12–6
Milwaukee	2–4	1–5	10–7	6–13	3–3	2–4	8–10	1–5	—	2–4	1–5	1–5	4–15	5–1	1–5	7–10	2–10
Montreal	2–4	6–13	3–3	5–1	2–4	9–10	3–3	2–5	4–2	—	11–8	11–8	3–3	3–4	4–2	3–3	12–6
New York	2–5	7–12	5–1	4–2	3–3	11–8	2–4	2–4	5–1	8–11	—	9–10	1–4	3–4	0–6	3–3	10–8
Philadelphia	3–4	7–11	4–2	4–2	3–3	9–10	3–3	3–4	5–1	8–11	10–9	—	2–4	2–4	3–3	4–2	10–8
Pittsburgh	2–4	3–3	9–10	7–11	2–4	2–4	6–11	2–4	15–4	3–3	4–1	4–2	—	2–4	2–4	6–11	3–9
San Diego	7–12	3–3	4–2	1–5	8–11	1–5	2–4	9–10	1–5	4–3	4–3	4–2	4–2	—	5–14	1–5	8–10
San Francisco	11–8	3–3	3–3	4–2	11–8	3–4	5–1	11–8	5–1	2–4	6–0	3–3	4–2	14–5	—	2–4	8–10
St. Louis	4–2	1–5	12–6	11–8	4–2	2–4	13–6	4–2	10–7	3–3	3–3	2–4	11–6	5–1	4–2	—	8–4

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)

2002 Cincinnati Reds

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

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

2002 regular season game log: 78–84 (Home: 38–43; Away: 40–41)

April: 16–9 (Home: 9–6; Away: 7–2)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record	Streak
1	April 1	Cubs	5–4	Graves	Fassero	—	41,913	1–0	W1
2	April 3	Cubs	3–10	Wood	Dessens	—	19,745	1–1	L1
3	April 4	Cubs	3–1	Acevedo	Cruz	Graves	16,448	2–1	W1
4	April 5	Expos	7–8	Yoshii	Haynes	Lloyd	17,123	2–2	L1
5	April 6	Expos	2–5	Ohka	Pineda	Lloyd	18,176	2–3	L2
6	April 7	Expos	6–5	Sullivan	Lloyd	—	17,549	3–3	W1
7	April 8	at Pirates	0–1	Villone	Dessens	Williams	36,402	3–4	L1
8	April 10	at Pirates	8–5	Acevedo	Wells	Graves	36,048	4–4	W1
9	April 11	at Pirates	3–2	Haynes	Anderson	Graves	12,795	5–4	W2
10	April 12	at Phillies	8–5	Brower	Cormier	Graves	13,366	6–4	W3
11	April 13	at Phillies	5–2	Hamilton	Person	Graves	15,606	7–4	W4
12	April 14	at Phillies	1–3	Padilla	Dessens	Mesa	19,195	7–5	L1
13	April 16	Astros	3–8	Mlicki	Acevedo	—	15,853	7–6	L2
14	April 17	Astros	2–7	Hernández	Haynes	—	14,527	7–7	L3
15	April 18	Astros	5–4	White	Cruz	—	15,848	8–7	W1
16	April 19	at Cubs	2–5	Clement	Hamilton	Alfonseca	33,949	8–8	L1
17	April 20	at Cubs	6–1	Dessens	Wood	—	36,476	9–8	W1
18	April 21	at Cubs	5–3	Rijo	Cruz	Graves	29,458	10–8	W2
19	April 23	Rockies	3–2	Haynes	Jennings	Graves	14,518	11–8	W3
20	April 24	Rockies	4–3	Williamson	Jiménez	—	13,004	12–8	W4
21	April 25	Rockies	4–3	Sullivan	White	Graves	14,416	13–8	W5
22	April 26	Giants	4–3	Sullivan	Rodríguez	Graves	28,341	14–8	W6
23	April 27	Giants	8–4	Rijo	Jensen	—	22,616	15–8	W7
24	April 28	Giants	4–5	Rueter	Haynes	Nen	23,426	15–9	L1
25	April 30	at Dodgers	3–1	Reitsma	Brown	Graves	25, 178	16–9	W1

May: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Away: 0–0)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record	Box	Streak
26	May 1	at Los Angeles Dodgers	4–0	Hamilton	Nomo		23,346	17–9		W2
27	May 2	at Los Angeles Dodgers	2–3	Carrara	Pineda		27,224	17–10	L1
28	May 3	at San Francisco Giants	1–6	Rueter	Rijo		39,845	17–11		L2
29	May 4	at San Francisco Giants	0–3	Jensen	Haynes	Nen	40,959	17–12		L3
30	May 5	at San Francisco Giants	5–6	Nen	Pineda		41,263	17–13		L4
31	May 6	Milwaukee Brewers	8–5	Brower	Quevedo	Graves	12,867	18–13		W1
32	May 7	Milwaukee Brewers	8-2	Dessens	Rusch	16,167
33	Wednesday, May 8	2002 Milwaukee Brewers season	14-5	Acevedo	Neugebauer	15,691
34	May 10	St. Louis Cardinals season	2-4	Stechschulte	White	Isringhausen	29,008
35	May 11	St. Louis Cardinals season	8-1	Reitsm	Kile		25,006
36	May 12	St. Louis Cardinals season	8-10	Stechschulte	Graves	Isringhausen	20,622
37	May 13	@Milwaukee Brewers	5-0	Rijo	Cabrera	14,844 +
38	May 14	@Milwaukee Brewers	Acevedo	Quevedo	Graves	15,546
39	May 15	Milwaukee Brewers\|7-4	Haynes	Stull	Graves	15,561
40	May 16	Milwaukee Brewers	2-1	White	DeJean	Graves		18,456
41	May 17	@St. Louis Cardinals season	1-3	Kile	Sullivan	Isringhausen	36,103
42	May 18	St. Louis Cardinals season	7-3	Rijo	Morris	40,483
43	May 19	@ St. Louis Cardinals season1-10	Stephenson	Acevedo	42,992
44	May 20	St. Louis Cardinals season	3-7	Williams	Haynes	35,560
45	May 21	Florida Gators	6-1	Reitsma	Burnett Graves	16,841
46	May 22	Florida Gators	6-2	Dessens	Dempster	20,314
47	May 23	Florida Gators	4-8	Tavarez	Rijo	Nunez	23,134 -
48	May 24	@Atlanta Braves	2-11	Millwood	Hamilton	29,307
49	May 25	@ Atlanta Braves	6-4	Marquis	Graves	44,026
50	May 26	Atlanta Braves	5-7 Maddux	Reitsma	40,142 -
51	May 28	@ Florida Marlinss	6-5	Graves	Nunez	7,386
52	May 29	@ Florida Marlins	8-2	Hamilton	Beckett	6,836
53	May 30	Florida Marlins	W-4-1	Haynes	Olsen	Graves	6,140
54	May 31	Atlanta Braves	0-7	Maddux	Reitsma	38,777 -

Legend: = Win = Loss = Postponement
Bold = Reds team member

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

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Louisville Bats	International League	Dave Miley
AA	Chattanooga Lookouts	Southern League	Phillip Wellman
A	Stockton Ports	California League	Jayhawk Owens
A	Dayton Dragons	Midwest League	Donnie Scott
Rookie	GCL Reds	Gulf Coast League	Edgar Caceres
Rookie	Billings Mustangs	Pioneer League	Rick Burleson

References

José Rijo page at Baseball Reference
Ben Broussard page at Baseball Reference
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

2002 Cincinnati Reds season at Baseball Reference

2002 MLB season by team

AL East	Baltimore Boston New York Tampa Bay Toronto
AL Central	Chicago Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Minnesota
AL West	Anaheim Oakland Seattle Texas

NL East	Atlanta Florida New York Philadelphia Montréal
NL Central	Chicago Cincinnati Houston Milwaukee Pittsburgh St. Louis
NL West	Arizona Colorado Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco

Cincinnati Reds

Established in 1882
Formerly the Cincinnati Red Stockings and the Cincinnati Redlegs
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio

Franchise

Ballparks

Spring training: Majestic Park; Tinker Field; Estadio Sixto Escobar; Plant Field; Al Lopez Field; Plant City Stadium; Ed Smith Stadium; Goodyear Ballpark

Culture

Lore

Rivalries

Key personnel

Owner: Bob Castellini
President of Baseball Operations: Nick Krall
General Manager: Brad Meador
Manager: Freddie Benavides (interim)

World Series Championships (5)

National League pennants (9)

AA pennants (1)

1882

Division titles (10)

National League Central: 1995; 2010; 2012
National League West: 1970; 1972; 1973; 1975; 1976; 1979; 1990

Minor league affiliates

Louisville Bats (Triple-A)
Chattanooga Lookouts (Double-A)
Dayton Dragons (High-A)
Daytona Tortugas (Single-A)
ACL Reds (Rookie)
DSL Reds (Rookie)

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