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Baseball Musings
April 27, 2005
Tom's Troubles

Do you think the Atlanta Braves know Tom Glavine too well? Leo Mazzone must go talk to the hitters each time they face Tom and tell them everything he knows about what Glavine does wrong. The lefty is now 1-7 vs. his former team. In those eight games he has a 9.15 ERA and has allowed 65 hits and 21 walks. I really wonder if Tom tips his pitches, but it's only something that Mazzone knows about.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:22 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (1)
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You betcha they do - Leo taught Tommy everything he knows and now he can tell the hitters how to exploit what he taught Tommy. That's the problem with facing your fomer team - most of the hitters are likely to know you all too well.

Posted by: Jared Buck at April 27, 2005 04:40 PM

Hampton, on the other hand, looks pretty comfy against his old team. Of course most everything about the Mets has changed, except Piazza and the unis, since he was there.

Posted by: high&tight at April 27, 2005 05:59 PM

Glavine may be the most overpaid player in baseball making $10.7 million for 1 win so far. He has sacrificed a chance for 300 wins if he had stayed with Braves since he will be 40 next March and still 37 wins short of 300 and considering his record with Mets is 21-31 in 3 seasons he will have to play till at least 41 to reach 300 wins. He made the choice to leave Braves for more money but it may have been the wrong choice since he may never reach the Hall of Fame unless they start taking into consideration that pitchers today are taken out of games sooner and start admitting pitchers with 275 plus wins.

Posted by: Andrew Godfrey at April 27, 2005 06:31 PM

Glavine was a fairly close lock on making the Hall of Fame when he left the Braves. All he's doing now is racking up counting stats to pad his resume and making ten million a year. Sounds like a good deal to me.

Posted by: frank at April 28, 2005 04:44 AM

I don't know how close Glavine is to HOF, but if he makes it, his Game 6 performance in 1995 WS is likely to carry great weight. One hit, no walks, shut out baseball over 8 innings against a fearsome Cleveland lineup (at least it had been until the WS). As a Braves fan, I will always cherish the memory of that game no matter how much respect I lost for Glavine for his whiney, finger-pointing exit out of Atlanta. As things have turned out, Glavine did the Braves a favor--especially Cox and Mazzone who love him like a son and would be really suffering right now over the kinds of decisions they would be facing as his skills evaporate.

Posted by: high&tight at April 28, 2005 08:43 AM

I think the Braves also know Kevin Millwood too well: 0-6, 9.10 ERA, 30.2 IP, 49 H, 6 HR, 17 BB, 17 SO in six starts against his former team. (Numbers courtesy of the the Day-by-Day Database...thanks for the great tool, David!)

Posted by: Jon Peters at April 28, 2005 10:47 AM

Glavine's a lock. The only thing he DOESN"T have is 300 wins... He's got a ring, several pennants, a jillion division championships, a Cy Young, five 20 win seasons, a high %, ERA way below league, a fistful of all-star games, he's famous, articulate, and a significant off-field contributor. And it took a car wreck to get him on the DL... he might even be first ballot...

Posted by: john swinney at April 28, 2005 10:51 AM

The number of post-1900, or at least post-1920, pitchers with 5 20-win seasons who aren't in the Hall is . . . well, it's very small, it may be zero. I remember I checked this a few years ago and the pickings were slim even of guys with three. Wilbur Cooper won 20 four times and isn't in.

Posted by: Crank at April 28, 2005 06:58 PM

Never mind . . . I'm actually going to look at the 20-win-seasons issue, it'll make a good post.

Posted by: Crank at April 28, 2005 07:16 PM
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