2001 San Diego Padres season explained

San Diego Padres
Season:	2001
League:	National League
Division:	West
Ballpark:	Qualcomm Stadium
City:	San Diego, California
Divisional Place:	4th
Owners:	John Moores
General Managers:	Kevin Towers
Managers:	Bruce Bochy
Television:	KUSI-TV 4SD (Mark Grant, Mel Proctor, Bob Chandler, Rick Sutcliffe)
Radio:	KOGO (Jerry Coleman, Ted Leitner) KURS (Rene Mora, Juan Avila, Eduardo Ortega)

The 2001 San Diego Padres season was the 33rd season in franchise history.

Offseason

• November 3, 2000: Buddy Carlyle was purchased by Hanshin Tigers (Japan Central) from the San Diego Padres.^[1]
• December 10, 2000: Ernie Young was signed as a free agent with the San Diego Padres.^[2]
• December 15, 2000: Adam Riggs was signed as a free agent with the San Diego Padres.^[3]
• January 12, 2001: Heathcliff Slocumb was released by the San Diego Padres.^[4]
• March 19, 2001: Rickey Henderson signed as a free agent with the San Diego Padres.
• March 28, 2001: Mark Kotsay was traded by the Florida Marlins with Cesar Crespo to the San Diego Padres for Matt Clement, Eric Owens, and Omar Ortíz (minors).^[5]

Regular season

Rickey Henderson

• During the 2001 season, Rickey Henderson broke two major league records and reached a career milestone. He broke Babe Ruth's all-time record for walks, Ty Cobb's all-time record for runs (doing so with a home run), and on the final day of the season, he had his 3,000th career hit. That final game was also Padre legend Tony Gwynn's last major league game, and is the only time in Major League history in which two teammates had 3,000 hits each. Rickey had originally wanted to sit that game out so as not to detract from the occasion, but Gwynn insisted that Henderson play.

At the age of 42, his last substantial major league season, Henderson finished the year with 25 stolen bases, ninth in the NL. It also marked Rickey Henderson's 23rd consecutive season in which he'd stolen more than 20 bases.

Opening Day starters

• Chris Gomez – SS
• Mark Kotsay – CF
• Mike Darr – LF
• Ryan Klesko – 1B
• Tony Gwynn – RF
• Damian Jackson – 2B
• Ben Davis – C
• Phil Nevin – 3B
• Kevin Jarvis – SP

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

• July 30, 2001: Sterling Hitchcock was traded by the San Diego Padres to the New York Yankees for Brett Jodie and Darren Blakely (minors).^[6]

Roster

2001 San Diego Padres
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		Outfielders		ManagerCoaches

Player stats

Batting

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		138	448	107	.239	11	57
1B		146	538	154	.286	30	113
2B		122	440	106	.241	4	38
SS		86	308	85	.276	3	33
3B		149	546	167	.306	41	126
LF		123	379	86	.227	8	42
CF		119	406	118	.291	10	58
RF		142	490	128	.261	25	92

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
	105	289	80	.277	2	34
	64	160	44	.275	8	27
	55	153	32	.209	4	12
	70	137	31	.226	2	12
	91	128	32	.250	1	12
	40	125	36	.288	4	19
	46	118	18	.153	1	5
	40	112	21	.188	0	7
	71	102	33	.324	1	17
	50	91	22	.242	2	8
	43	81	16	.198	0	4
	12	36	7	.194	0	1
	14	27	5	.185	2	5
	12	22	4	.182	1	8
	13	14	1	.071	0	0

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
	33	195.0	8	19	5.12	113
	32	193.1	12	11	4.79	133
	23	145.0	8	8	4.97	102
	19	117.1	10	4	4.30	71
	17	116.2	8	5	4.32	109
	3	19.0	2	1	3.32	15
	2	4.1	0	2	24.92	1

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
	27	114.2	5	5	3.45	84
	20	46.2	3	3	6.56	39
	12	42.2	2	6	6.33	14
	7	23.1	0	1	4.63	13
	4	19.1	2	1	5.12	10

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
	62	3	4	43	3.43	63
	56	4	1	0	3.31	49
	41	1	0	0	3.70	42
	39	2	4	0	4.50	37
	37	1	2	1	5.32	29
	31	5	2	1	1.86	53
	31	1	1	0	5.16	25
	26	0	2	1	2.63	24
	23	2	0	0	1.37	19
	17	0	1	0	5.95	19
	16	0	0	0	3.00	17
	3	0	0	0	10.80	4
	3	0	0	0	0.00	3

Award winners

2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

• Ryan Klesko
• Phil Nevin

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball.

LEAGUE CO-CHAMPIONS: Lake Elsinore^[7]

External links

• 2001 San Diego Padres at Baseball Reference
• 2001 San Diego Padres at Baseball Almanac

Notes and References

1. Web site: Buddy Carlyle Stats.
2. Web site: Ernie Young Stats.
3. Web site: Adam Riggs Stats.
4. https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/slocuhe01.shtml Heathcliff Slocumb Statistics
5. Web site: Mark Kotsay Stats.
6. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hitchst01.shtml Sterling Hitchcock Statistics
7. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007