Glavine to Remain a Met

grote15

From the Ny Mets web site:

Tom Glavine and the Mets agreed on Friday to a one-year contract that will keep the All-Star left-hander with the National League East Division Champions.

Glavine needs 10 victories to reach 300. He was 15-7 with a 3.82 ERA last season.

The two-time Cy Young Award winner had wrestled for months with the prospects of returning to the Braves - his team from 1987 through 2002 - and re-signing with the Mets. He was torn between playing close to his home in Alpharetta, Ga., and life as a fulltime father and husband and coming back to the team he helped to the National League Championship Series and being an absentee parent and spouse.

Glavine had promised the Mets he would give them an answer before the start of next week's Winter Meetings and did that Friday afternoon.

Jersey

That's good. Let him get 300 victories in New York. BTW, I was surprised (although glad) to read that he got to like the city.

Axtell

Good for him...doesn't look like he'd have as good a chance to get to 300 in atlanta.

But he'll retire and go into the hall as a Brave.

Barndog

Although Glavine will get many millions more for this season than I will in a lifetime, it is too bad for the Braves and for Glavine's family. I would have liked to see him close out his career back in Atlanta. Maybe he wanted a shot at another World Series or (more likely) Atlanta wasn't interested for some reason.

grote15

Atlanta wasn't interested for some reason.


According to an article I read in the paper just a day or two ago, the Braves never even made Glavine a formal offer according to his agent, so I suppose the "going back home to Atlanta" deal was a one-sided notion on Glavine's part anyway.

MantleMarisFordBerra

I'm happy for him, maybe he'll get to pick up another ring before he retires.

WinPitcher

Tommy and the Mets both chose to not to pick up options. This allowed him to talk to his family about where to play next year. The braves though it has been reported never made an offer. With this signing 10.5 and the buyout that the Mets made earlier 3.mill is just .5 million short of what the original Met option would have cost them (14 mil) Tommy was very appreciative of the Mets for doing that for him.


He basically gets what he would have gotten anyway.

I agree he will be going in with a Braves cap on.

Steve

bigfische

<< <i>Good for him...doesn't look like he'd have as good a chance to get to 300 in atlanta. >>




There is not a problem with the Atlanta offense, He would have had a great chance to get to his last ten wins in a Braves uniform.