Anatomy of a player: Tom Glavine
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The Hardball Times found this 11/20/2007 on www.hardballtimes.com [flag] |
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studes +1Awesome job, Josh. When you watch Glavine pitch, you have no idea how he's getting batters out. Though I still don't fully understand it, your article helps.
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Published 11/21/2007 by AE at SPORTS UNFILTERED
The Hardball Times has it here . The most telling thing from it: Despite all this guile, Glavine showed some signs of aging last year. Glavine posted one of his lowest strikeout totals of his career, getting slightly over four strikeouts per game. His walk rate stayed pretty much the same, but his groundball rate plummeted to under 42% as did his infield fly ball percentage. This increased his FIP to 4.86. The strong Mets defense kept his ERA at 4.45, but going forward Glavine will be counting on his defense more and more. With Andruw Jones outfield defense (most probably) ...
