Baseball Toaster: The Griddle : Bing Devine, 1916-2007

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Chicago Cubs	57	39	.594	C1
2	Philadelphia	53	44	.546	E1
3T	Arizona	47	49	.49	W1
3T	Los Angeles Dodgers	47	49	.49	W1
5	St. Louis	55	43	.561	C2
6	Milwaukee	53	43	.552	C3
7	New York Mets	52	45	.536	E2
8	Florida	50	46	.521	E3
9	Cincinnati	47	51	.48	C4
10	Atlanta	46	50	.479	E4
11	Houston	45	51	.469	C5
12	Pittsburgh	44	52	.458	C6
13	Colorado	41	57	.418	W3
14	San Francisco	40	56	.417	W4
15	San Diego	37	60	.381	W5
16	Washington	36	61	.371	E5

American League

Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Los Angeles Angels	58	38	.604	W1
2	Tampa Bay	56	39	.589	E1
3	Chicago White Sox	55	40	.579	C1
4	Boston	57	41	.582	E2
5	Minnesota	54	42	.563	C2
6T	Oakland	51	45	.531	W2
6T	New York Yankees	51	45	.531	E3
8	Texas	50	47	.515	W3
9	Detroit	48	48	.5	C3
10	Toronto	47	49	.49	E4
11	Baltimore	46	49	.484	E5
12	Kansas City	43	54	.443	C4
13	Cleveland	41	54	.432	C5
14	Seattle	38	58	.396	W4

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Comments

2007-01-27 20:02:59

1. dzzrtRatt

An historical question: Does Bing Devine deserve the credit for drafting and promoting the great NY Mets' crop of pitchers who emerged in the late 60s? The timing suggests he would have been the one to sign Seaver, Koosman, Ryan, Gentry, maybe even McGraw. I don't think he was GM anymore when they won the Series, but since it's a day for obits, I wonder if that major achievement should also be added to his jacket.

2007-01-27 20:24:27

2. Bob Timmermann

Devine is given some credit for forming the Miracle Mets team. Devine and Whitey Herzog did a lot of the work.

2007-01-28 12:49:58

3. das411

A "funny" thing Bob? Funny? Of all the words in the English language that's the one you go with??? A whole generation of POed Philadelphians were permanently scarred by that team...

....although I hafta admit it would have been pretty hilarious if that had happened to the Cards this year.

2007-01-28 19:18:40

4. Cliff Corcoran

Bing Devine also traded for Curt Flood in 1957 then traded Curt Flood in 1969, the first being his first key move for the Cards, the latter leading to Flood's lawsuit against baseball.