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.José Rijo page at Baseball Reference

Regular season

Season standings

National League Central

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions June 7, 2002: Ben Broussard was traded by the Reds to the Cleveland Indians for Russell Branyan.Ben Broussard page at Baseball Reference

Roster 2002 Cincinnati Reds Roster Pitchers Catchers

Infielders Outfielders Manager

Coaches (first base) (bench) (third base) (pitching) (bullpen) (hitting)

Game log

|-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 =

|-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 -

|- style="text-align:center;" | Legend:      = Win      = Loss      = PostponementBold = 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

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: StocktonJohnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

References

2002 Cincinnati Reds season at Baseball Reference