Early life
Tom Glavine excelled inside many sports in the period of high, including ice hockey and baseball, and was drafted by each a Los Angeles Kings in the 1984 NHL amateur draft (in the 4th round—five cycles ahead of new NHL star Luc Robitaille), and a Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball organization in the 2nd around of the 1984 amateur baseball draft. Tom elected to play baseball & manufactured his Major League debut in August 17, 1987.

Glavine enjoyed blast & bad days in the period of his number 1 many years in the majors, compiling the 33-43 record from either 1987 to 1990, including a 17-loss performance around 1988.

Professional baseball career
Glavine's fortunes turned around within 1991 when he won 20 games and posted the Ii.55 ERA. It was his number 1 of 3 sequentially Xx wins or even sir thomas more seasons & his foremost year to earn a National League Cy Young Award. Glavine's year besides led the striking reversal in the Braves' competitory fortunes when it won a National League East Section & went to the World Series, only to lose to the Minnesota Twins.

Atlanta, yearn thought of as a perrenial cellar inhabitant, was lifted in a Nineties into one of the virtually all successful franchises in the game on the nature & severity of its starring pitching staff and firm hit. A trio of Glavine, John Smoltz and Greg Maddux, acquired in 1993, is considered by some to the better trio of pitchers ever assembled in of these team. Between a children, it won seven Cy Young Awards in the period of the period of 1991 to 1998. Glavine won his 2nd Cy Young Award within 1998.

Inside 2003, much to the mortification of numbers of Braves fans, Glavine left Atlanta to play for the rival New York Mets, signing a ternion-season $35-million treat. First since 1988, Glavine failed to win 10 games, likewise posting his foremost losing record in this span, 9-14. Within 2004, he stumbled again using his Second straight losing record, running 11-14. Glavine's slump was part blamed on the New York Mets' decline as a team since the 2002 season, resulting inside unfortunate begin trend lines that ofttimes deprived him of an otherwise easily win. His performance improved somewhat around 2005, going 1Trey-13 by using the 3.53 ERA. Notwithstanding, despite his mediocre performance sustaining a Mets, his pre-2003 performance is more than sufficiency to produce him the virtual lock for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

As of 2005, Glavine's career win total stands at 275. When recently when 2002, he was considered the shoo-runaway to in time achieve 300 career wins; now he may in all probability want to pitch at least ii and perchance threesome further seasons--into his early forties--to email that mark.

Accomplishments
Ennead-instance All-Star (1991-93, 1996-98, 2000, 2002, 2004) Twice National League Cy Young Award winner (1991, 1998) Finished 10th inside National League MVP ballot (1992) Finished Second within National League Cy Young award voting (1992, 2000) Finished 3rd around National League Cy Young award voting (1993, 1995) World Series MVP Award (1995) Finside-instance led National League in wins (1991-93, 1998, 2000)

Teams
Atlanta Braves (1987-2002) New York Mets (2003-)