Description
Glavine is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), for the Atlanta Braves (1987โ2002, 2008) and New York Mets (2003โ2007).
With 164 victories during the 1990s, Glavine earned the second-highest number of wins as a pitcher in the National League (NL), second only to teammate Greg Maddux‘s 176.
He was a five-time 20-game winner and two-time Cy Young Award winner, and one of only 24 pitchers (and just six left-handers) in major league history to earn 300 career wins. He was the Most Valuable Player of the 1995 World Series as the Braves beat the Cleveland Indians.
In 2014, Glavine was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, receiving 91.9% of the votes cast.
(Source: Wikipedia)
