2002 Cleveland Indians

74-88 • .457 Win% • 3rd in AL C

The 2002 Cleveland Indians went 74-88 (.457) finishing 3rd in the AL C division. The club scored 739 runs, allowed 837, and played home games at Jacobs Field. Team leaders included Jim Thome (52 HR, 118 RBI) and CC Sabathia (13-11, 4.37 ERA).

W (Wins):
Games credited to a pitcher whose team took a lead it never surrendered while he was the pitcher of record.
L (Losses):
Games charged to the pitcher of record when the opposing team took a lead it never surrendered.
RS (Runs Scored (team)):
Total runs a team scored across the season.
RA (Runs Allowed):
Total runs a team allowed across the season.

Data updated

📊 Season Record

74 Wins
88 Losses
.457 Win %
3rd Rank
739 R 837 RA
Diff -98

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⚡ Quick Stats

739 Runs Scored
837 Runs Allowed
-98 Run Diff
2,621K Attendance

📈 vs. 2002 AL Average

Batting Avg .248 6% below the 2002 league average (.263)
OBP .321 3% below the 2002 league average (.331)
SLG .411 3% below the 2002 league average (.424)
Team ERA 4.91 10% worse than the 2002 league average (4.46)
Runs Scored 739 5% below the 2002 league average (778 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 2,621,940
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Avg per Game 32,369

⚾ Batting Leaders

Team HR Leaders — 2002

Batting Avg

1 Jim Thome 0.304 2 Ellis Burks 0.301 3 Karim Garcia 0.299 4 Omar Vizquel 0.275 5 Ricky Gutierrez 0.275

Home Runs

1 Jim Thome 52 2 Ellis Burks 32 3 Karim Garcia 16 4 Matt Lawton 15 5 Omar Vizquel 14

RBI

1 Jim Thome 118 2 Ellis Burks 91 3 Omar Vizquel 72 4 Matt Lawton 57 5 Travis Fryman 55
2002 Cleveland Indians — RBI
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Omar Vizquel 151 582 85 160 31 5 14 72 56 64 18 0.275
Ellis Burks 138 518 92 156 28 0 32 91 44 108 2 0.301
Jim Thome 147 480 101 146 19 2 52 118 122 139 1 0.304
Matt Lawton 114 416 71 98 19 2 15 57 59 34 8 0.236
Travis Fryman 118 397 42 86 14 3 11 55 40 82 0 0.217
Ricky Gutierrez 94 353 38 97 13 0 4 38 20 48 0 0.275
Milton Bradley 98 325 48 81 18 3 9 38 32 58 6 0.249
Einar Diaz 102 320 34 66 19 0 2 16 17 27 0 0.206
John McDonald 93 264 35 66 11 3 1 12 10 50 3 0.250
Chris Magruder 87 258 34 56 15 1 6 29 15 55 2 0.217
Karim Garcia 51 197 29 59 8 0 16 52 6 40 0 0.299
Russell Branyan 50 161 16 33 4 0 8 17 17 65 1 0.205
Bill Selby 65 159 15 34 7 2 6 21 15 27 0 0.214
Lee Stevens 53 153 22 34 7 1 5 26 15 32 0 0.222
Coco Crisp 32 127 16 33 9 2 1 9 11 19 4 0.260
Eddie Perez 42 117 6 25 9 0 0 4 5 25 0 0.214
Ben Broussard 39 112 10 27 4 0 4 9 7 25 0 0.241
Josh Bard 24 90 9 20 5 0 3 12 4 13 0 0.222
Brady Anderson 34 80 4 13 4 0 1 5 18 23 4 0.163
Jolbert Cabrera 38 72 5 8 1 0 0 7 5 13 1 0.111
Earl Snyder 18 55 5 11 2 0 1 4 6 21 0 0.200
Greg LaRocca 21 52 12 14 3 1 0 4 6 6 1 0.269
Victor Martinez 12 32 2 9 1 0 1 5 3 2 0 0.281
Brandon Phillips 11 31 5 8 3 1 0 4 3 6 0 0.258
Wil Cordero 6 18 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0.222
Bruce Aven 7 17 1 2 0 0 0 0 4 4 1 0.118
Chad Allen 5 10 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.100
Bartolo Colon 16 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.167
Todd Dunwoody 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
CC Sabathia 33 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.200
Chuck Finley 18 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Ryan Drese 26 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.000
Danys Baez 39 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ricardo Rincon 46 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jason Beverlin 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dave Burba 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jason Davis 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Sean DePaula 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dave Elder 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Alex Herrera 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Cliff Lee 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dave Maurer 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Terry Mulholland 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Heath Murray 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Charles Nagy 20 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Chad Paronto 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jason Phillips 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jerrod Riggan 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
David Riske 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Nerio Rodriguez 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ricardo Rodriguez 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Carl Sadler 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Paul Shuey 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Roy Smith 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brian Tallet 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jake Westbrook 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bob Wickman 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mark Wohlers 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jaret Wright 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

Team K Leaders — 2002

ERA

1 Paul Shuey 2.41 2 Bartolo Colon 2.55 3 Chad Paronto 4.04 4 CC Sabathia 4.37 5 Danys Baez 4.41

Wins

1 CC Sabathia 13 2 Danys Baez 10 3 Bartolo Colon 10 4 Ryan Drese 10 5 Chuck Finley 4

Strikeouts

1 CC Sabathia 149 2 Danys Baez 130 3 Ryan Drese 102 4 Chuck Finley 91 5 Bartolo Colon 75
2002 Cleveland Indians — Strikeouts
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
CC Sabathia 13 11 4.37 33 33 0 210.0 198 102 88 149
Danys Baez 10 11 4.41 39 26 6 165.1 160 81 82 130
Ryan Drese 10 9 6.55 26 26 0 137.1 176 100 62 102
Bartolo Colon 10 4 2.55 16 16 0 116.1 104 33 31 75
Chuck Finley 4 11 4.44 18 18 0 105.1 114 52 48 91
Mark Wohlers 3 4 4.79 64 0 7 71.1 71 38 26 46
David Riske 2 2 5.26 51 0 1 51.1 49 30 35 65
Charles Nagy 1 4 8.88 19 7 0 48.2 76 48 13 22
Terry Mulholland 3 2 4.60 16 3 0 47.0 56 24 14 21
Jason Phillips 1 3 4.97 8 6 0 41.2 41 23 20 23
Jake Westbrook 1 3 5.83 11 4 0 41.2 50 27 12 20
Ricardo Rodriguez 2 2 5.66 7 7 0 41.1 40 26 18 24
Paul Shuey 3 0 2.41 39 0 0 37.1 31 10 10 39
Chad Paronto 0 2 4.04 29 0 0 35.2 34 16 11 23
Ricardo Rincon 1 4 4.79 46 0 0 35.2 36 19 8 30
Bob Wickman 1 3 4.46 36 0 20 34.1 42 17 10 36
Dave Burba 1 0 4.50 12 3 0 34.0 30 17 17 25
Jerrod Riggan 2 1 7.64 29 0 0 33.0 53 28 18 22
Dave Elder 0 2 3.13 15 0 0 23.0 18 8 14 23
Carl Sadler 1 2 4.43 24 0 0 20.1 15 10 11 23
Jaret Wright 2 3 15.71 8 6 0 18.1 40 32 19 12
Jason Davis 1 0 1.84 3 2 0 14.2 12 3 4 11
Heath Murray 0 2 7.50 9 0 0 12.0 12 10 7 11
Brian Tallet 1 0 1.50 2 2 0 12.0 9 2 4 5
Cliff Lee 0 1 1.74 2 2 0 10.1 6 2 8 6
Jason Beverlin 0 0 7.36 4 0 0 7.1 9 6 4 9
Sean DePaula 1 1 12.79 5 0 0 6.1 11 9 3 8
Roy Smith 0 0 3.00 4 1 0 6.0 9 2 5 2
Alex Herrera 0 0 0.00 5 0 0 5.1 3 0 1 5
Dave Maurer 0 1 13.50 2 0 0 1.1 3 2 0 0
Nerio Rodriguez 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0

👥 Roster (59)

Chad Allen Brady Anderson Bruce Aven Danys Baez Josh Bard Jason Beverlin Milton Bradley Russell Branyan Ben Broussard Dave Burba Ellis Burks Jolbert Cabrera +47 more

59 players

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The 2002 Cleveland Indians in brief

The 2002 Cleveland Indians finished 74-88, a .457 winning percentage, placing 3rd in the AL Central. The run column shows 739 for and 837 against. At the plate the Cleveland Indians hit .248, 6% worse than the league's .263. Pitchers allowed 4.91 earned runs per nine innings, against a league figure of 4.46. League clubs averaged 778 runs that year, so the Cleveland Indians scored 5% fewer.

Attendance at Jacobs Field totaled 2,621,940 for the year. The home run leader was Jim Thome, who hit 52. Omar Vizquel collected the most hits, 160. On the mound, CC Sabathia won 13 games to lead the staff. Bob Wickman closed out 20 saves. In all, the roster shows 59 players.

Frequently Asked Questions about the 2002 Cleveland Indians

What was the 2002 Cleveland Indians record?
The 2002 Cleveland Indians finished 74-88 (.457 win pct).
Who led the 2002 Cleveland Indians in home runs?
Jim Thome led the 2002 Cleveland Indians with 52 home runs.
What was the 2002 Cleveland Indians team ERA?
The 2002 Cleveland Indians posted a team ERA of 4.91.
Did the 2002 Cleveland Indians win the World Series?
No. The 2002 Cleveland Indians did not win the World Series.
Where did the 2002 Cleveland Indians play?
The 2002 Cleveland Indians played home games at Jacobs Field.
Who led the 2002 Cleveland Indians in hitting and pitching?
Team leaders were Jim Thome (52 HR, 118 RBI) and CC Sabathia (13-11, 4.37 ERA).
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