The Braves and Tom Glavine are talking, but so far there hasn’t been an exchange of figures. Glavine’s agent, Gregg Clifton, said: “Every negotiation is unique. It will progress at its own pace. When the time is right over the next couple of days, we’ll continue the talks.’’
The Mets aren’t being proactive in this at all. GM Omar Minaya said he hasn’t talked with Glavine lately and is waiting to hear the pitcher’s decision. “At some point in time, I’m pretty sure we’re going to hear from him as far as what his plans are,’’ Minaya said.
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Omar can’t let Glavine dictate how this is going to work…Atlanta will clearly make an offer, and Glavine seems to want to go back.
If Glavine is still hanging around by December 1st (and I strongly believe Atlanta will try to sign him without losing a draft pick), Omar better offer arbitration…this handshake agreement nonesense is fine, but not when it goes against smart baseball decisiona
So right on Ravi. Omar doesn’t offer arbitration he should be fired on the spot. This team needs a farm system badly. If he offers and the guy says yes then we can work a trade somewhere and maybe deal out of something other than panic.
Agreed.
I’m thinking Barry Bonds’ asking price has just gone down.
Maybe last year was OK with the handshake deal, but no way you do that again. Omar is responsible to the owners and fans of the Mets, 2 groups that Glavine doesn’t get too worked up about.
So, offer arbitration. At this point, that has two possible positive outcomes:
he signs with the Braves, and we get an extra 1st round draft pick.
He takes arbitration, and returns to the Mets.
I don’t care for him personally, and would like to see him go, but if the alternative is 3-4 years of Silva or Livan Hernandez, 1 year of Glavine doesn’t look too bad.
Slop, gotta agree on this one. If Omar doesn’t get a draft pick for Glavine, somebody (Hello JOHN D!) has got to call him on it.
Of course, given the Wilpons nature to be too nice to certain players (in this case being nice means not doing the arbitration so Glavine can more easily go to the Braves) is not beyond them.
Omar should be fired if he doesn’t get something in return for Glavine. No way should we do Glavine any favors when his heart was never in it in NY anyways.