Braves Release Tom Glavine

[JWCUB]

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9642590/Sources:-Braves-release-legendary-P-Glavine

 

Tom Glavine is done in Atlanta.

 

According to major-league sources, the Braves released Glavine on Wednesday, just a day after the two-time Cy Young Award winner threw six scoreless innings in his latest rehab start.

[A-Cal]

i hope the brewers or cardinals pick him up

[illiniguy]

i hope the brewers or cardinals pick him up

I want no part of him on the Cardinals.

[Post Count Padder]

Just watch the Cards grab him and he posts a 1.02 ERA the rest of the season.

[A-Cal]

i hope the brewers or cardinals pick him up

I want no part of him on the Cardinals.

 

i think it would be fun to watch...a little duncan dust on ole tommy boy

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Would he agree to be our loogy?

[ArthurVandalay]

I could see this team signing Glavine to be the left in the pen and sending down Marshall. That would make Lou happy.

[JWCUB]

Would he agree to be our loogy?

 

Nice thought. I wonder if he would go for that. :-k

[biittner77]

Sign Glavine to be the 5th starter. Move Marshall and Wells into the pen.

 

Zambrano

Lilly

Harden

Dempster

Glavine

 

Wells

Marshall

Guzman

Old Style

Marmol

Ascanio/ Waddell

Gregg

 

That's a pretty good pitching staff with starting depth to absorb the inevitable missed starts by Zambrano and Harden.

 

Or the Cubs could sell high on Wells and get a Derosa type guy to back up 2nd and 3rd.

[SouthSideRyan]

Sign Glavine to be the 5th starter. Move Marshall and Wells into the pen.

 

Zambrano

Lilly

Harden

Dempster

Glavine

 

Wells

Marshall

Guzman

Old Style

Marmol

Ascanio/ Waddell

Gregg

 

That's a pretty good pitching staff with starting depth to absorb the inevitable missed starts by Zambrano and Harden.

 

Or the Cubs could sell high on Wells and get a Derosa type guy to back up 2nd and 3rd.

 

Except Tom Glavine sucks now.

[Guest]

If there is one thing the Braves are very good at doing, it is evaluating talent. If they think Glavin is finished, he probably is.

 

Now, how they are going to find a taker for Francour? In the past I'd bet even money that Hendry would be all over him, but since he's demonstrated that he can't hit...

[CubLover8769]

Glavine is a true gentelemen in a sport of jerks. i met him once at a restaurant in key west florida and he could not have been nicer. I used to have a picture of us together but unfortunately i have lost it somewhere.

[jersey cubs fan]

If there is one thing the Braves are very good at doing, it is evaluating talent. ...

 

What is the current makeup of the Braves hierarchy, and how does it compare to the one that actually led them to and through greatness? We're going on 4 years of mediocrity with that organization, a bit more of a fall from grace than what Cleveland went through after their much less ballyhooed period of success.

 

Not that this has anything to do with Glavine, but I'm not sure we should just assume Atlanta is making all the right moves anymore.

[Guest]

If there is one thing the Braves are very good at doing, it is evaluating talent. ...

 

What is the current makeup of the Braves hierarchy, and how does it compare to the one that actually led them to and through greatness? We're going on 4 years of mediocrity with that organization, a bit more of a fall from grace than what Cleveland went through after their much less ballyhooed period of success.

 

Not that this has anything to do with Glavine, but I'm not sure we should just assume Atlanta is making all the right moves anymore.

I think they have most of the same people in place, but I'm not sure. They have a history of trading really well. They sort players out pretty quick and usually trade when they have optimum value.

 

I think the main thing that has hurt Atlanta is that they're owned by a corp. that doesn't spend like Turner use to. I think they would have liked to have held on to Tex and Furcal for example. I also think that they have a pretty strong farm system too.

[SouthSideRyan]

If there is one thing the Braves are very good at doing, it is evaluating talent. If they think Glavin is finished, he probably is.

 

Now, how they are going to find a taker for Francour? In the past I'd bet even money that Hendry would be all over him, but since he's demonstrated that he can't hit...

 

Maybe they should've evaluated his talent in the offseason after he sucked last year too. Unless they knew they were going to release him all along so he wouldn't get his full salary. Grudge holding bastards.

[dew1679666265]

If there is one thing the Braves are very good at doing, it is evaluating talent. ...

 

What is the current makeup of the Braves hierarchy, and how does it compare to the one that actually led them to and through greatness? We're going on 4 years of mediocrity with that organization, a bit more of a fall from grace than what Cleveland went through after their much less ballyhooed period of success.

 

Not that this has anything to do with Glavine, but I'm not sure we should just assume Atlanta is making all the right moves anymore.

 

The biggest changes that I know of are Frank Wren as GM with Schuerholz now the team president and Dayton Moore gone to KC.

 

Wren seems far more willing to go the mediocre veteran route to shoot for a lucky playoff spot as opposed to building through the minors as much as Schuerholz and Cox did.

[Careless]

Tom Glavine may file a grievance against the team following his release on Wednesday...Glavine would have received a $1 million bonus if he had been activated from the disabled list for Sunday's start, as he expected.

So he spends his first 15 years with the Braves, leaves when they don't want to pay him anymore, comes back to retire a Brave, and now that they've decided he's done he's going to get in a fight with them. That's a shame

 

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