Glavin Rips Off Mets, Clemens a Bargain for Yankees
Noted Clemens’ apologist Peter Abraham writing about Tom Glavine’s 5 years with the New York Mets:
You have to hand it to Tom Glavine and agent Gregg Clifton. They pulled $47 million out of the Mets over five years, a hefty price for a past-his-prime left-hander.
Glavine was 61-56 with a 3.97 ERA and averaged 201 innings a season. That’s not bad, but he was never the ace the Mets signed him to be.
In another column published the same day Peter Abraham writes about Roger Clemens:
The big right-hander helped turn the team around, a process that took four long months.
Each of Glavine’s victories cost the Mets 770,000 dollars.
Clemens, with an ERA of 4 plus, who now takes 4 weeks between starts, somehow turned the Yankees’ season around with a 6 and 6 record. Each of those victories cost the Yankees 3 million dollars.
Being a Clemens apologist is a full time job. Luckily for Clemens, Peter Abraham is the man for the job.
