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According to Ken Rosenthal at FOXSports.com, the agent for LHP 
Tom Glavine will meet with Braves GM Frank Wren today in Arizona.
Rosenthal asks…
“The question is whether the Braves will make Glavine a strong enough offer to persuade him to change teams again.”
Rosenthal writes that the Phillies and Nationals are also believed to have interest in Glavine, who became a free agent when he turned down a $13 million, mutual option with the Mets.
…rosenthal doesn’t write this, but, i am getting a strong sense that glavine will just retire if he is unable to work out a new deal with the Braves…i believe the Mets would happlily bring him back if he’s interested, but i feel it is Braves or bust at this point…
Well, if your feelings are correct, they have to offer him arbitration. Pretty much a no lose (unless you consider him coming back a loss!)
1 year of Glavine is still probably better than 3 years of Livan or 4 years of Silva.
False.
All I want from Glavine is the draft pick.
If the Mets DO feel this way, as Cerrone suggests, I think they might be the most inept franchise in the history of baseball…
I mean, NOBODY wants Glavine back…NOBODY! He stinks. We have all seen him decay over his years here. All we need to know is 1/3 IP, 7 ER….guy is atrocious.
Only the Mets would bring back a player that everyone in the stands LOATHES!
I think it’s a matter of other options…I mean, let’s say the Mets can’t trade for a starter, and they roll craps on the free-agent market.
At that point, would your view on Glavine change?
I suspect the team is looking at it that way.
Cerrone,
I am glad we can debate this. I been wanting to take this argument on with you about Glavine for a LONG time.
My stance is this: Glavine is a league average/below average starter. He has marginal stuff and he is a nibbler. So, he is a .500 pitcher with a mid 4 ERA…I would venture to say that Pelfrey COULD likely do the EXACT same thing for WAY LESS money. Glavine stinks. He walks the ballpark, nibbles, gives up way too many hits, etc…
While I agree on the no Glavine part, there is no way that Pelfrey would have the ERA or Innings of Glavine next season.
In ERA he is league average. In innings as well as quality starts he is above average. And what the heck does “a .500″ pitcher mean? Not only are wins a team stat but Glavine was well above .500 the last two years.
Having said that I don’t want Glavine back because he faded badly down the stretch and he will probably decline next year.
I don’t want Livan either. They need to stop wasting money on pitchers who are too old and fading or just washed up and start giving Humber and Pelfrey more chances. If they trade one or both of those 2 for a quality established pitcher, fine. But until they do, pencil them in for next year instead of taking on the dregs.
Well said!
Oh yeah! Well said! Good research!
Yeah Glavine IS a .500 pitcher. (wait what? last 3 years he went 41-28?)
But he definitely has a mid 4 ERA! (is that really the league average?)
But he walks the ballpark! (say what? who issued more BBs last year? Carlos Zambrano? Tim Lincecum? Jake Peavy???)
Such is the nature of the beast. One inning determined whether Glavine would have walked away as a hero or a goat. Shame that we’re just going to have to throw away everything else.
Glavine was never fully comfortable here, he has his 300 wins, and will get booed mercelessly if he were a Met in 2008. Why in the world would he want to come back to the Mets next year? Braves or retire makes most sense for Glavine. I don’t think he wants to end his career on 1/3 inning pitched, but he certainly doesn’t want to end his career with us–not anymore. And I have no interest in him doing so.
It was an interesting run with Glavine, and his performance in the ‘06 playoffs were stellar. But it’s over, and if the Mets do bring him back, it is going to create a very, very odd and cold relationship between this team and its fans. I don’t think that’s a dynamic they want to create.
All the more reason to offer him the arbitration tag. With your argument in place, he is very unlikely to accept it and would either sign with Atlanta , Houston the Nationals or walk away.
Absolutely. I’d offer it to him in a heartbeat. Even if for some unfathomable reason he did sign, we could still use him at mid-season in a trade that might net some talent. It is hard to think of any good reason not to offer him arbitration.
Oh, and you can forget Houston and the Nats. He has more than enough money, has won 300, has a World Series Ring, and has as good a chance to make the playoffs with the home town team as he would in Houston or DC. If he gets a half-decent offer from the Braves, he’ll take it, that’s fine by me, as I think you’ll see him go about 9-15 with a bit over 5 ERA next year if he goes the full season. Teams have adjusted to his adjustments that he made with Peterson, and he doesn’t have anything left to change to try and get hitters out.
Good riddance