Tom Glavine May Be Baseball’s Last 300 Game Winner
With Tom Glavine’s 300th win last night over the Cubs, baseball fans have most likely witnessed the last time ever that a pitcher will hit that hallowed mark. Glavine makes the 23rd pitcher to make the list of 300 game winners, and surprisingly, only the fifth lefthander on the list.
The bleak future of 300 game winners, in my opinion, has only one legitimate contender left to claim that mark. Randy Johnson, who only needs 16 wins to hit 300, is currently in the midst of a stint on the disabled list due to back surgery, and is doubtful to be able to perform well enough or long enough to
win even that many more games at his age. And many of the 200+ game winners on the list currently are over 40.
Looking into the future, the price tag put on pitchers of that caliber is so high that pitch counts and liberal usage of the DL, as well as modern five man pitching rotations, make it relatively safe to conclude that if Johnson can’t return to the mound, baseball has seen the last 300 game winner of all time.
-Kenneth England
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Tom Glavine lived in the town next to me.. As a young pup and budding LH pitcher, on a whim I called his mom back in '89 during my baseball card collecting craze, after I got his Topps card with that 17 losses in bold italics cause he led the league.. (This was possible back in the day before people became all creepy and stuff.) His mom was happy he had a local fan after his horrific season, and said to bring over my cards for him to sign when he gets back. He did, and he's always been my fave non-Sox player since then.. I had no idea he would win 300 and be a hall of famer.. So basically what I am saying is, I take credit for his hall of fame career. Leo Mazzone has nothing on a little 12 year old local fan motivation..