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  Is Tom Glavine a clutch pitcher? - By Josh Levin - Slate Magazine
According to Stats Inc., Glavine's opponents have a.303 career on-base percentage and a.380 career slugging average with none on.
I expected Tom House, Ryan's pitching coach when he played for the Texas Rangers, to say that was malarkey.
Glavine, though, places his change-up and middling fastball on the outside corner rather than trying to blow hitters away.
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 Tom Seaver Fan Club
Tom Glavine didn’t get a decision in a pretty good start.  He gave up three runs on seven hits with five strikeouts in five innings of work.  We already went through what the pen did and this game was a long one at a minute over 3:20.
Tom Glavine picked up win number three in a nice outing.  He gave up just a single run on six hits and five walks with three strikeouts in six innings of work.  Three relievers then threw an inning a piece to shut out the Phillies the rest of the way.
Tom Glavine improved to 2-1 on the season with six decent innings.  He gave up three runs on four hits and three walks with four strikeouts in six innings of work.  Billy Wagner put the Phillies down in the ninth for a save and the end result was a series win.
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 ESPN - Tom Glavine Stats, News, Photos - New York Mets - MLB Baseball
Tom Glavine has not been involved in any transactions this season.
Mets pitcher Tom Glavine declined his $13 million option with New York on Friday, making himself eligible for free agency.
Tom Glavine is likely to decline his $13 million option with the New York Mets by Friday's deadline, giving the pitcher time to think about his future.
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  The Official Site of The New York Mets: History: Tom Glavine 300 Wins
Tom Glavine achieved the crown jewel of his brilliant career, as the legendary left-hander pitched a stellar game at Wrigley Field for his 300th win in an 8-3 Mets victory.
Tom Glavine was headed toward the Hall of Fame well before he won his 300th.
Tom Glavine pitched a classic game to defeat the Cubs for his 300th career victory.
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  Mets' Glavine made to feel at home after win No. 300 - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Glavine was the third pitcher in the last five years to bid for his 300th win at Wrigley, and first of the three to succeed.
Glavine got the run support he needed from his teammates Sunday, but he started the offense himself by driving in the first run of the game with a two-out single in the second inning off Jason Marquis (8-7), scoring Lastings Milledge, who had walked and stolen second.
Glavine cruised through the first five innings on 75 pitches and gave up a run in the sixth, getting a break in the third inning to escape a potential jam.
www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/2007-08-05-mets-cubs-glavine-300_N.htm?csp=34   (979 words)

  
 Scout.com: Bring Back Tom Glavine
Glavine may already know in his heart that he wants to come back and is just waiting to talk with them.
Instead of being an ‘old’ Tom Glavine, he was the ‘old’ Tom Glavine, looking like he did when he pitched in the playoffs for the Braves for so many years.
No one more than Glavine represents the transformation of the Braves from the pretenders they were for most of their first 25 years in Atlanta to the dominant team over the past decade and a half.
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 Tom Glavine Relationships
Tom Glavine seeks security and loyalty in love relationships, is extremely devoted to his loved ones and provides a warm, nurturing atmosphere for them.
Tom wants to contribute something positive and loving to the world at large and he wants to be recognized for his beauty, artistic gifts or loving generosity.
Tom Glavine has a very romantic, idealistic vision of love relationships and may be disillusioned to discover that no real, flesh-and-blood human being ever quite lives up to his dream image of the "perfect love".
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  Tom Glavine : Sandbox.com - Tom Glavine Biography from Sandbox.com
Glavine is now just 10 wins away from 300, and considering that he’s pitched 180 innings every year of his career except the strike season of 1994, it figures that he’ll get there this year.
Tom Glavine made it sound like 2007 would be his final year in an interview on Friday.
Tom Glavine still intends to decide on his new team prior to the beginning of the winter meetings next week, but the Braves have yet to enter the game with an offer.
fantasynews.sandbox.com /2005/news/content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=MLB&id=1488   (1245 words)

  
 RotoTimes.com - Tom Glavine - Notes
Tom Glavine declined his $7.5 million option Friday, and the Mets are expected to turn down their $14 million option before the Nov. 20 deadline, according to the AP.
Tom Glavine, who is recovering from an angiogram, planned to toss a baseball Thursday and Friday and to throw off a mound on Saturday, according to the AP.
Tom Glavine is having his pitching shoulder examined today for a possible blood clot and it's possible that he could miss the rest of the season, according to the AP.
www.rototimes.com /mlb/player/493/notes   (1314 words)

  
 The Official Site of The New York Mets: News: New York Mets News
Glavine is scheduled to undergo a CT scan and an angiogram this week to further determine his status.
Glavine said the best-case scenario would involve the doctors deciding that his sensation Wednesday was just an "isolated incident" and that the clot could clear on its own, which Glavine suggested could have him back on the mound by the weekend.
Glavine said he has had issues with coldness in his pitching hand since leaving a 1990 game at Los Angeles, after which he was diagnosed with a condition known as Raynaud's Phenomenon, which affects blood flow in extremities.
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 Tom Glavine : USAToday.com - Tom Glavine Biography from USAToday.com
ET Tom Glavine pitched shutout ball for five innings Friday in his fourth start of the spring.
Glavine, who was away from camp for a couple of days for personal reasons, has yet to allow a run in five innings this spring.
ET Tom Glavine made it sound like 2007 would be his final year in an interview on Friday.
fantasybaseball.usatoday.com /content/player.asp?sport=MLB&id=1488   (449 words)

  
 Tom Glavine information - Search.com
Glavine enjoyed good times and bad times during his first several years in the majors, compiling a 33-43 record from 1987 to 1990, including a 17-loss performance in 1988.
Glavine's season also led a dramatic reversal in the Braves' competitive fortunes as they won the National League West Division and went to the World Series, only to lose to the Minnesota Twins.
Glavine's slump was partially blamed on the New York Mets' decline as a team since the 2002 season, resulting in poor run support that frequently deprived him of an otherwise easy win.
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 No. 5: Tom Glavine - Braves Journal
In 1995, Glavine was the second-best pitcher in the league, though he finished third in the Cy Young voting, going 16-7 with a 3.08 ERA and combining with Maddux for one of the greatest single-season 1-2 punches ever.
Tom’s ERAs in the next two years were actually (in context) his best since 1991, but he didn’t get the run or bullpen support he had earlier in his career, going 15-10 (it was like he and Smoltz switched records in 1996) and 14-9.
Glavine is still in the game — this was not unusual even then — and he is going to protect his teammates by retaliating against the first Phillie hitter of the ninth.
www.braves.net /bravesjournal/?p=2866   (4741 words)

  
 Glavine guides Mets - The Boston Globe
And the lefthander's signature changeup, the pitch that will take Glavine one day to Cooperstown, N.Y., rendering the game's best hitters as helpless now at age 40 as it did when he was 25 and 30 and 35.
Glavine, who gave up just four hits and did not allow a Cardinals base runner past second, extended his postseason scoreless streak to 13 innings in his 16th start in an LCS, a record.
Glavine became a winner when Carlos Beltran, who must torment Cardinals manager Tony La Russa in his sleep, hit a two-run home run off Jeff Weaver in the sixth.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2006/10/13/glavine_guides_mets   (864 words)

  
 ABC News: Tom Glavine Does Not Need Surgery   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Glavine is having his pitching shoulder examined for a possible blood clot and could miss the rest of the season.
Glavine felt coldness in his left ring finger after a start last week, triggering fears that a blood clot might have developed that could end his season or possibly, his career.
In 1990, while he pitched for Atlanta, Glavine's left middle finger and index finger were diagnosed in 1990 with Raynaud's, a condition caused by poor circulation that results in numbness and coldness.
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 Tom Glavine | BaseballLibrary.com
Glavine makes his living working on the outside edge of the plate, gradually expanding the strike zone until good batters chase bad pitches.
Glavine occasionally works in a sharp breaking curveball and in recent years has developed a slider that he uses against left-handed batters.
The ace of a rotation that included promising youngsters John Smoltz and Steve Avery, as well as veteran Charlie Leibrandt, Glavine and his partners in crime became known as the Fab Four, forming a staff that was the envy of the baseball world.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/G/Glavine_Tom.stm   (2356 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - Time to move on: Glavine lands deal with Mets
Glavine reached agreement with the New York Mets on Thursday for a three-year contract worth $35 million.
Glavine's contract includes an option for a fourth year, based on innings pitched, that could make the deal worth $42.5 million.
Glavine also happens to be the losingest pitcher in postseason history, going 12-15 overall.
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 Hot Foot :: Tom Glavine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tom Glavine was miffed that Braves GM John Schuerholz detailed a private conversation he had with Glavine when he left to join the Mets.
Glavine was nervous, and he'd been nervous ever since Wednesday, when he'd officially joined his teammates on the field for pregame introductions and officially revisited a month that used to be such a regular part of his annual itinerary.
Tom Glavine and Willie Randolph are the veteran Mets when it comes to postseason experience, and they are doing their best to prepare their teammates for what to expect, reports The Star Ledger.
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 Tom Glavine - SoSH | Boston Red Sox | Red Sox Rumors | Spring Training | Pawtucket Red Sox
After 16 years playing for the Braves, Glavine signed a free agent contract with the New York Mets in December 2002 (Steve Phillips was the Mets' GM at the time).
Glavine will be forever linked with Greg Maddux and John Smoltz for the trio's role in propelling the Braves to sustained dominance throughout the 1990's.
Glavine's younger brother, Mike, made his major league debut for the New York Mets in 2003.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Tom Glavine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Glavine enjoyed good times and bad times during his first several years in the majors, compiling a 33-43 record from 1987 to 1990, including a 17-loss performance in 1988.
Glavine's slump was partially blamed on the New York Mets' decline as a team since the 2002 season, resulting in poor run support that frequently deprived him of an otherwise easy win.
Glavine won a championship with the Braves in 1995 but also lost four World Series (with the Braves in 1991, 1992, 1996 and 1999) which ties him with Smoltz and Roger Clemens for tops among active players.
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 Mets' Tom Glavine set to return to mound - Boston.com
Glavine is 12-6 with a 3.92 ERA this season.
Glavine's left middle finger and index finger were diagnosed in 1990 with Raynaud's, a condition caused by poor circulation that leads to numbness and coldness, but this was the first time his ring finger was affected.
Randolph also announced that Orlando Hernandez (fatigue) will likely be his starter Sunday after a bullpen session Wednesday and long-toss session Thursday went well and that Pedro Martinez (right calf) is expected to throw off the mound Saturday in the next step of his rehab.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2006/08/31/mets_tom_glavine_set_to_return_to_mound   (569 words)

  
 cy young Award, Tom Glavine
As a pitcher for Atlanta Braves, Thomas Glavine led the majors in wins from 1991-95 with 91; NL Cy Young winner in 1991 and 1998; seven-time All-Star and was the NL starter twice; was the World Series MVP in 1995.
In 2002, Glavine started Game Four of the NLDS against the Gianst that was his last start for the Braves, and eventually lost.
Glavine won twenty games five times (leading the league each time), and his 164 wins in the 1990s trailed only his teammate, Greg Maddux (176).
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 New York Mets, Tom Glavine, Cory Lidle, Jose B. Reyes, Major League Baseball, Philadelphia Phillies - CBS SportsLine.com
PHILADELPHIA -- Tom Glavine used his bat and his arm to end Philadelphia's longest winning streak in 15 years.
Glavine pitched seven strong innings and drove in a pair of runs to help the New York Mets beat Philadelphia 13-4 Wednesday night, snapping the Phillies' nine-game winning streak.
Glavine became the 38th pitcher to reach 4,000 career innings on the mound.
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 1984 NHL Entry Draft -- Tom Glavine
Glavine's Baseball Career: Glavine is the most accomplished NHL draft pick when it comes to career performance in another professional sport besides hockey.
A left-handed pitcher, Glavine broke into Major League Baseball with the Atlanta Braves, who had drafted him in 1984, just two days after he was taken in the NHL draft.
By 1988, Glavine was ready for full-time duty in the Atlanta rotation, and he responded with a 7-17 record for a last-place Braves team that won only 54 games.
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 11/21/2006 - Where Will Tom Glavine Pitch In 2007? - Sports - Chattanoogan.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Glavine told Mets COO Jeff Wilpon he would end the suspense by then and allow the Mets to move forward with a degree of certainty they have lacked.
Glavine is vacationing this week, according to his agent Gregg Clifton, and weighing the many factors -- his family, the comparative likelihood of reaching 300 career victories with each team, "going 'home' again," playing again with his buddy John Smoltz and, of course, his family.
"Tom Glavine is a free agent, and re-signing him could be the simplest way for the Braves to start fixing their team.
www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_97085.asp   (614 words)

  
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Tom Glavine does not need surgery on his troublesome left shoulder and will be able to rejoin the New York Mets' rotation in seven to 10 days.
Glavine felt coldness in his left ring finger after a start last week, triggering fears that a blood clot might have developed that could end his season — or possibly, his career.
Glavine was not expected to go on the disabled list, meaning he could be back for the series that starts Sept. 1 at Houston.
www.11alive.com /rss/article.aspx?storyid=83664   (505 words)

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