2002 Los Angeles Dodgers
Major League affiliations
Location
Results
Record92–70 (.568)
Divisional place3rd
Other information
Owner(s)Fox Entertainment Group
General manager(s)Dan Evans
Manager(s)Jim Tracy
Local televisionFox Sports Net West 2; KCOP (13)
Local radioKFWB
Vin Scully, Ross Porter, Rick Monday
KWKW
Jaime Jarrín, Pepe Yñiguez
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The 2002 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 113rd for the franchise in Major League Baseball, and their 45th season in Los Angeles, California. The season saw Dan Evans take over as General Manager and in his first season the team won 92 games and was not eliminated from post season contention until the next-to-last day of the season, finishing third overall in the West Division of the National League. Shawn Green hit 42 home runs to become the first Dodger to have back-to-back 40 or more homer seasons. He had four homers in one game on May 23 against the Milwaukee Brewers. He went 6-for-6 in that game and set a Major League mark for total bases with 19.[1] The number broke the previous record of 18 total bases set by Joe Adcock. Éric Gagné, a former starter, was turned into the closer and proceeded to set a club record for saves with 52. This is also their first season to be broadcast on KCOP (13).

Offseason

Regular season

Season standings

National League West

NL West 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
Arizona Diamondbacks 98 64 0.605 — 55–26 43–38
San Francisco Giants 95 66 0.590 2½ 50–31 45–35
Los Angeles Dodgers 92 70 0.568 6 46–35 46–35
Colorado Rockies 73 89 0.451 25 47–34 26–55
San Diego Padres 66 96 0.407 32 41–40 25–56


Record vs. opponents

2002 National League Records

Source: [1]
Team ARI ATL CHC CIN COL FLA HOU LAD 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


Opening Day lineup

Opening Day Starters
Name Position
Dave Roberts Center fielder
César Izturis Shortstop
Paul Lo Duca Catcher
Shawn Green Right fielder
Brian Jordan Left fielder
Adrián Beltré Third baseman
Eric Karros First baseman
Mark Grudzielanek Second baseman
Kevin Brown Starting pitcher

Notable transactions

Roster

2002 Los Angeles Dodgers

Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Starting Pitchers stats

Name G GS IP W/L ERA BB SO CG
Hideo Nomo 34 34 220.1 16-6 3.39 101 193 0
Odalis Pérez 32 32 222.1 15-10 3.00 38 155 4
Andy Ashby 30 30 181.2 9-13 3.91 65 107 0
Kazuhisa Ishii 28 28 154.0 14-10 4.27 106 143 0
Omar Daal 39 23 161.1 11-9 3.90 54 105 0
Kevin Brown 17 10 63.2 3-4 4.81 23 58 0

Relief Pitchers stats

Name G GS IP W/L ERA BB SO SV
Éric Gagné 77 0 82.1 4-1 1.97 16 114 52
Paul Quantrill 86 0 76.2 5-4 2.70 25 53 1
Giovanni Carrara 63 0 90.2 6-3 3.28 32 56 1
Jesse Orosco 56 0 27.0 1-2 3.00 12 22 1
Guillermo Mota 43 0 60.2 1-3 4.15 27 49 0
Terry Mulholland 21 0 32.0 0-0 7.31 7 17 0
Paul Shuey 28 0 30.2 5-2 4.40 21 24 1
Kevin Beirne 12 3 29.0 2-0 3.41 17 17 0
Víctor Álvarez 4 0 10.1 0-1 4.35 2 7 0
Jeff Williams 10 0 10.0 0-0 11.70 7 11 0
Robert Ellis 3 0 2.2 0-1 10.13 0 0 0
Dennis Springer 1 0 1.1 0-1 6.75 2 1 0
Bryan Corey 1 0 1.0 0-0 0.00 0 0 0

Batting Stats

Name Pos G AB Avg. R H HR RBI SB
Paul Lo Duca C/1B 149 580 .281 74 163 10 64 3
Chad Kreuter C 41 95 .263 8 25 2 12 1
David Ross C 8 10 .200 2 2 1 2 0
Eric Karros 1B 142 524 .271 52 142 13 73 4
Mark Grudzielanek 2B 150 536 .271 56 145 9 50 4
César Izturis SS 135 439 .232 43 102 1 31 7
Adrián Beltré 3B 159 587 .257 70 151 21 75 7
Alex Cora 2B/SS 115 258 .291 37 75 5 28 7
Dave Hansen 1B/3B 96 120 .292 15 35 2 17 1
Tyler Houston 1B/3B 35 65 .200 9 13 0 8 0
Jeff Reboulet 2B/SS 38 48 .208 3 10 0 2 0
Joe Thurston 2B 8 13 .462 1 6 0 1 0
Shawn Green RF 158 582 .285 110 166 42 114 8
Dave Roberts CF/LF 127 422 .277 63 117 3 34 48
Brian Jordan LF/RF 128 471 .285 65 134 18 80 2
Marquis Grissom CF/LF/RF 111 343 .277 57 95 17 60 5
Hiram Bocachica LF/CF/RF 49 65 .215 12 14 4 9 1
Mike Kinkade LF/1B 37 50 .380 7 19 2 11 1
Jolbert Cabrera OF/IF 10 12 .333 3 4 0 1 0
Wilkin Ruan CF 12 11 .273 2 3 0 23 0
Luke Allen RF 6 7 .143 2 1 0 0 0
Chin-Feng Chen LF 3 5 .000 1 0 0 0 0

2002 Awards

Farm system

Level Team League Manager
AAA Las Vegas 51s Pacific Coast League Brad Mills
AA Jacksonville Suns Southern League Dino Ebel
High A Vero Beach Dodgers Florida State League Juan Bustabad
A South Georgia Waves South Atlantic League Scott Little
Rookie Great Falls Dodgers Pioneer League Dann Bilardello
Rookie Gulf Coast Dodgers Gulf Coast League Luis Salazar
Rookie DSL Dodgers
DSL Dodgers 2 		Dominican Summer League
Rookie San Joaquin Dodgers Venezuelan Summer League

Teams in BOLD won League Championships

Major League Baseball Draft

Main article: 2002 Major League Baseball Draft
James Loney
James Loney

The Dodgers selected 52 players in this draft. Of those, nine of them would eventually play Major League baseball. They gained a supplemental first round pick and an extra second round pick as compensation for losing pitcher Chan Ho Park to the Texas Rangers as a free agent.

With their first round pick, the Dodgers selected first baseman James Loney from Lawrence E Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas. Loney would make it to the Majors in 2006 and was the Dodgers primary starting first baseman until he was traded in 2012. He hit 71 home runs and drove in 451 RBI in his seven seasons with the Dodgers, while hitting .284. The supplemental first round pick was left handed pitcher Greg Miller from Esperanza High School in Anaheim, California. Miller was a highly touted prospect and the 2003 Dodgers minor league pitcher of the year after he went 11-4 with a 2.49 ERA in 21 starts for the Vero Beach Dodgers. However, he missed the entire 2004 season with an arm injury and was never able to regain his touch. In eight minor league seasons (the last in the independent American Association) he was 24-15 with a 3.89 ERA in 221 games (53 starts).[3]

This was a fairly successful draft, after several sub-par drafts that proceeded it. Also drafted this season were relief pitcher Jonathan Broxton (second round), starting pitchers James McDonald (11th round, drafted as a first baseman) and Eric Stults (15th round) and catcher Russell Martin (17th round, drafted as a second baseman).

References

  1. ^ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.258, David Nemec and Scott latow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
  2. ^ "Tim Crabtree Stats".
  3. ^ Gurnick, Ken (April 6, 2009). "Dodgers give up on left-hander Miller". mlb.com. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  4. ^ 2002 Los Angeles Dodgers Picks in the MLB June Amateur Draft

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