2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season

March 2026 November 2013 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 300 2002 American League East Tropicana Field St. Petersburg, Florida 55–106 (.342) 5th Vince Naimoli Chuck LaMar Hal McRae FSN FloridaWMOR-TVWTSP(Joe Magrane, Dewayne Staats, Todd Kalas) WFLA(Paul Olden, Charlie Slowes)WLCC(Ricardo Tavares, Enrique Oliu) thumb|right|275px|Tropicana Field on Opening Day in 2002 The 2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season was their fifth since the franchise was created. This season, they finished last in the American League East, and managed to finish the season with a record of 55–106. Their manager was Hal McRae who entered his first full season and last season with the Devil Rays. Offseason November 8, 2001: Ryan Freel was signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.https://www.baseball-reference.com/f/freelry01.shtml Ryan Freel Stats Regular season Season standings Tampa Bay Devil Rays American League Wild Card Tampa Bay Devil Rays Record vs. opponents TB Opening Day starters Brent Abernathy Steve Cox Chris Gomez Ben Grieve Toby Hall Bob Smith Tanyon Sturtze Jason Tyner Greg Vaughn Randy Winn Notable transactions June 4, 2002: B. J. Upton drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 2002 amateur draft. Player signed September 16, 2002.B.J. Upton Statistics Baseball-Reference.com June 4, 2002: Elijah Dukes drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 3rd round of the 2002 amateur draft. Player signed August 21, 2002.Elijah Dukes Statistics Baseball-Reference.com September 22, 2002: Released Toe Nash, the day after he was released from jail.Gainesville Sun Gainesville, Florida https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vFFWAAAAIBAJ&pg=2906,5348013&dq=toe-nash&hl=en Devil Rays release troubled Toe Nash September 22, 2002 8C New York Times Management Services Roster 2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays Roster Pitchers 40 Wilson Álvarez 37 Brandon Backe 45 Dewon Brazelton 38 Lance Carter 46 Jesús Colomé 38 Doug Creek 36 Luis de los Santos 39 Lee Gardner 58 Travis Harper 48 Delvin James 54 Jason Jiménez 17 Joe Kennedy 51 Steve Kent 52 Tom Martin 61 Travis Phelps 24 Ryan Rupe 59 Jorge Sosa 53 Jason Standridge 49 Tanyon Sturtze 41 Paul Wilson 43 Esteban Yan 60 Víctor Zambrano Catchers  6 John Flaherty 44 Toby Hall 15 Paul Hoover Infielders  3 Brent Abernathy 28 Steve Cox  5 Félix Escalona  9 Chris Gomez 19 Aubrey Huff 25 Russ Johnson 20 David McCarty 10 Jared Sandberg 26 Andy Sheets 20 Bob Smith 29 Jason Smith Outfielders  4 Jason Conti  8 Carl Crawford 18 Ben Grieve 33 Damian Rolls 14 Jason Tyner 23 Greg Vaughn  2 Randy Winn Manager 11 Hal McRae Coaches 50 Jackie Brown (pitching) 55 Glenn Ezell (bullpen) 16 Tom Foley (third base) 22 Billy Hatcher (bench) 47 Lee May (first base) 35 Milt May (hitting) Citrus series The annual interleague games between the Florida Marlins and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were played in June and July. They are known as the Citrus Series. The Devil Rays won the series 4–2. Date Winning Team Losing Team Score VenueJune 14 Devil Rays Marlins 4-3 (14 innings)http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200206140FLO Box Score of Game played on Friday, June 14, 2002 at Pro Player Stadium Pro Player StadiumJune 15 Marlins Devil Rays 3-0http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200206150FLO Box Score of Game played on Saturday, June 15, 2002 at Pro Player Stadium Pro Player StadiumJune 16 Devil Rays Marlins 4-1http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200206160FLO Box Score of Game played on Sunday, June 16, 2002 at Pro Player Stadium Pro Player StadiumJune 28 Devil Rays Marlins 4-0http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200206280TBA Box Score of Game played on Friday, June 28, 2002 at Tropicana Field Tropicana FieldJune 29 Marlins Devil Rays 3-2 http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200206290TBA Box Score of Game played on Saturday, June 29, 2002 at Tropicana Field Tropicana FieldJune 30 Devil Rays Marlins 6-5 (12 innings)http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200206300TBA Box Score of Game played on Sunday, June 30, 2002 at Tropicana Field Tropicana Field 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 Toby Hall 85 330 85 .258 6 42 1B Steve Cox 148 560 142 .254 16 72 2B Brent Abernathy 117 463 112 .242 2 40 SS Chris Gomez 130 461 122 .265 10 46 3B Jared Sandberg 102 358 82 .229 18 54 LF Carl Crawford 63 259 67 .259 2 30 CF Randy Winn 152 607 181 .298 14 75 RF Ben Grieve 136 482 121 .251 19 64 DH Aubrey Huff 113 454 142 .313 23 59 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 John Flaherty 76 281 73 .260 4 33 Greg Vaughn 69 251 41 .163 8 29 Jason Conti 78 222 57 .257 3 21 Jason Tyner 44 168 36 .214 0 9 Félix Escalona 59 157 34 .217 0 9 Andy Sheets 41 149 37 .248 4 22 Russ Johnson 45 111 24 .216 1 12 Damian Rolls 21 89 26 .292 0 6 Jason Smith 26 65 13 .200 1 6 Bob Smith 18 63 11 .175 1 6 Dave McCarty 12 34 6 .176 1 2 Paul Hoover 5 17 3 .176 0 2 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 Tanyon Sturtze 33 224.0 4 18 5.18 137 Joe Kennedy 30 196.2 8 11 4.53 109 Paul Wilson 30 193.2 6 12 4.83 111 Ryan Rupe 15 90.0 5 10 5.60 67 Luis de los Santos 3 14.0 0 3 11.57 7 Dewon Brazelton 2 13.0 0 1 4.85 5 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 Victor Zambrano 42 114.0 8 8 5.53 73 Jorge Sosa 31 99.1 2 7 5.53 48 Travis Harper 37 85.2 5 9 5.46 60 Wilson Álvarez 23 75.0 2 3 5.28 56 Delvin James 8 34.1 0 3 6.55 17 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 Esteban Yan 55 7 8 19 4.30 53 Steve Kent 34 0 2 1 5.65 41 Jesús Colomé 32 2 7 0 8.27 33 Doug Creek 29 2 1 0 6.27 37 Travis Phelps 26 1 2 0 4.78 36 Lee Gardner 12 1 1 0 4.05 8 Brandon Backe 9 0 0 0 6.92 6 Lance Carter 8 2 0 2 1.33 14 Jason Jiménez 5 0 0 0 5.40 5 Tom Martin 2 0 0 0 16.20 1 Jason Standridge 1 0 0 0 9.00 1 ESPN25 Worst Team of All-Time In 2004, ESPN was celebrating 25 years of the network since its founding in 1979. The network decided to honor the first 25 years from the best to the worst and everything else in between. The Rays were ranked 16th in the actual ESPN Worst Team Result of the first 25 years conducted by ESPN and its users. The users put them higher at 13th than the original airing as the worst team by only 3 spots. Farm system Minor League Baseball AAA Durham Bulls International League Bill Evers AA Orlando Rays Southern League Mako Oliveras A Bakersfield Blaze California League Charlie Montoyo A Charleston RiverDogs South Atlantic League Buddy Biancalana A-Short Season Hudson Valley Renegades New York–Penn League Dave Howard Rookie Princeton Devil Rays Appalachian League Edwin RodríguezLEAGUE CHAMPIONS: DurhamJohnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007 References 2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Baseball Reference.com 2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays team page at www.baseball-almanac.com Category:Tampa Bay Rays seasons Tampa Bay Devil Rays season Tampa Bay Devil Rays