Glavine goes tonight
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Tom Glavine has been ripped his last two starts. His previous three weren’t bad, losing because he didn’t get any run support. “It’s frustrating that I haven’t done anything to help us win in a month,’’ Glavine said.
Glavine said he’s corrected some mechanical flaws since his last start. I’m aware of Glavine’s age, but he’s pitched too good, including this season, for me to think he’s lost it.
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The first hurdle for Glavine today is giving the Mets the chance to score first, which he wasn’t doing even in his better starts recently. Secondly, he needs to be able to hold a lead if the team jumps ahead, which he couldn’t do against the Yanks Saturday.
Does anyone else feel that the home-plate ump has a huge role in how well Glavine does? The last outing Glavine wasn’t getting the call on the outside corner and wasn’t allowed to expand the zone. It looked like the ump squeezed the strike zone for both starting pitchers. At least to me it seems that any time Glavine runs into an ump with a tight strike zone, he has a terrible outing. I’d love to hear if anyone has any thoughts on this. Also, does anyone remember Sosa’s game against the Tigers and how huge the umps strike zone was? If Glavine gets an ump like that, he’d be lights-out every game.
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To Albert
Getting squeezed by an ump is always an issue. But everybody will tell you, both pitcher and hitter, that it is up to the player to adjust to the ump’s strike zone that day. No matter how awful it is. When the zone changes throughout the game is what really irks the players. Glavine didn’t adjust that day. – JD
I firmly believe Glavine will have a great game tonight. In June our interleague play included the Tigers, Tankees and Twins. In each of the series’ our starter who pitched the first game was sparkling. It was our pitching in the last two games of each series that took us out of the games. I fully confident that we will break that trend and win at least two out of three. The pitching matchups are in our favor. Go Mets!
There is no doubt that Glavine is disadvantaged by a tight strike zone. However he can still be good. He just has to stop leaving the ball up in the zone. If he keeps it low a lot of those balls that were hammered would be groundouts.
I have lost any confidence I had in Tom Glavine on the mound. He has shown that he cannot hold a lead – 3 times last time out – and that his biggest concern is his own 300 win record.
Right now, I’d rather have one of the ‘kids’ on the mound. (or, of course, Pedro)
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To Annie:
Very surprised at you for jumping off the Glavine bandwagon. Let me ask you, would you rather have Glavine now or Pedro in his first game back? And, about 300 … if he wins games it stands to reason so will the Mets. No way he’s thinking about the record. You need to trust me on that one. – JD
OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE NO BRAIN SURGEONS CHECKING OUT THIS BLOG. I WAS GOING TO SAY ROCKET SCIENTISTS; BUT THEY’RE ALL CRYING IN THE BRONX. IF WE HAD ANY OF EITHER IN THE AUDIENCE IT WOULD BE OBVIOUS THAT ANY PITCHER WHO’S FASTBALL TOPS OUT AROUND 89 NEEDS AN EXPLANDED ZONE; NOT AN OVER-THE-MIDDLE ONLY ONE. GLAVINE, LIKE DUQUE IS QUICKLY BECOMING A PITCHER WHO FEASTS UPON YOUNG AGRESSIVE HITTERS AND TEAMS LIKE THE TIGERS & TANKEES DON’T FIT THAT DESCRIPTION. FISH & NATS FORTUNATELY ARE IN OUR DIVISION.
‘62MetsFan, I do appreciate the response, if a bit loud. You’re right, Glavine does feast on young and aggressive line-ups, but I think you missed my point. I was asking how much influence the ump has on Glavine’s pitching – I thought it had a huge influence, but wanted other opinions. Apparently you think the ump entirely dictates how well Glavine does. But Taylor makes a great point that even with a squeezed zone, if Glavine keeps his pitches down he can still be very effective. Looking back, his trouble in his last start was that he’d miss middle-middle and up. If he kept the ball down, he’d probably give up a few ground-ball hits, a few runs, but would have at least kept us in the game and not had a meltdown. I’d love to hear other opinions though.
If Glavine gets the corners, he’s money in the bank.
If he doesn’t and the opposing batters are patient, he’s a crapshoot.
That’s been the book on him for a long time. Not getting the corners + the other team realizing it = a very thin margin for error with Glavine that he clearly exceeded the last two games.
If he gets the corners OR an aggressive line-up against him and he keeps the ball down, he’ll go six or seven innings and give up two or three runs and give you a chance to win.
There’s a lot of problems with this team right now. Glavine isn’t high on that list.
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Mike C.
I agree with you. He stunk it up his last two starts, but only got three runs of support in the previous three before that. Had he won those game and just had the last two games, the Glavine bandwagon would be a little more filled up.-JD
John –
OK, I trust you – I know we’ve had this conversation before and you are very loyal to Glavine. Perhaps I would be too, if I could see him as you do. I just think he is so concerned with the BIG 300 that he will not relax until he’s there and that affects his pitching.
What has David Wright got up his sleeve to loosen up the team this time – or is it back to the clippers? Or, hopefully, can Pedro make another special appearance? That man has a sense of humor. Where’s Robin Ventura when you need him?