Friday, November 2, 2007

Little Credit

Terry Francona's regular season winning percentage as manager of the Red Sox (the last four seasons) has been .579.
Grady Little's regular season winning percentage as manager of the Red Sox (the two seasons immediately before Francona) was .580.

Grady Little's regular season winning percentage as manager of the Dodgers was .525. Tommy Lasorda's was .526.

Among the 225 managers all-time who have managed at least 500 regular season MLB games, Grady Little is 30th in lifetime winning percentage with a .552 percentage. He is immediately behind Billy Martin at .553, and ahead of luminaries such as Sparky Anderson (.545), Mike Scioscia (.542), Tony LaRussa (.534), Whitey Herzog (.532), Tommy Lasorda (.526) and Joe Torre (.539).

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