Atlanta Braves Inside Pitch
by Sports Xchange
This is the easy part.
"The hard part about what I was doing before," Glavine said before heading to Alabama, "was just sitting around and getting treatment and there's no guarantee it's going to work. Unfortunately, it didn't work."
Had "Tommy John" ligament-replacement surgery been required, Glavine wouldn't have done it. He knows he's not going to be pitching much longer, and there was no way he would have put in the year-plus rehab that procedure requires.
Tendon surgery is another matter. Right now his elbow hurts when he turns a doorknob, so getting rid of that pain is a quality-of-life issue. And the recovery period, about four months, will put him on his regular offseason schedule: starting to toss in early January, taking the mound in February, being ready for competitive pitching in early March. So Glavine has the entire offseason to decide whether he'd like to pitch again, and the Braves have that same amount of time to decide whether they want Glavine to pitch for them.
For Glavine, it's the Braves or nothing.
"I don't want to go anywhere else," he said. "At this stage in my life, I've done that. I don't want to do it anymore. I'd be perfectly fine either way."
METS 6, BRAVES 3: RHP Jair Jurrjens racked up a 44-pitch first inning thanks to two two-out walks and two throwing errors -- by 3B Chipper Jones and SS Yunel Escobar -- that extended the inning. When the dust cleared, the Mets were ahead 5-0.
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