I Never Understood How Tom Glavine Was So Good

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he never passed the "eye test" to me. I grew up watching the Braves Big 3 of Smoltz, Glavine and Maddux and while I could see why Maddux and Smoltz was so dominant I could never understand why Glavine was so good. While Maddux never threw hard, his ball movement and location was :ohlawd: and the best ive ever seen along with Pedro. I LOVED watching him pitch. Every pitch had movement to it. Smoltz was the power pitcher and he also had good movement. Glavine however seemed to just throw the ball at the plate and for some reason hitters couldn't hit it :pachaha:. He never threw faster than 88 and I never saw movement on his pitches. I understand he changed speeds extremely well and he used the outside part of the plate to catch hitters looking, but like I said before he never passed the "eye test" to me so he was always my least favorite to watch pitch. :manny:
 

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Great Post Season Pitcher

Glavines Strike Zone was from one end of the Batters box to the other end.

Shyt was hilarious that it only took for him to Pitch for the Mets for the League to figure him out, just hit the ball the other way.

I give him credit, he learned to adapt. Started Pitching Inside. He was good pitcher for them, Kind of feel bad for him that he got bombed by the Marlins to close out Shea Stadium
 

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Great Post Season Pitcher

Glavines Strike Zone was from one end of the Batters box to the other end.

Shyt was hilarious that it only took for him to Pitch for the Mets for the League to figure him out, just hit the ball the other way.

I give him credit, he learned to adapt. Started Pitching Inside. He was good pitcher for them, Kind of feel bad for him that he got bombed by the Marlins to close out Shea Stadium
I can't remember if it was on TV or a magazine, but I remember someone saying Glavine's game plan was always to begin outside and see how far the ump would expand the zone. He would literally throw inch by inch until he found the boundaries then just pound the outer edge of the zone.
 
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