Tom Glavine May Take a Job With Braves, but He Won't Be Pitching

Tom Glavine still doesn't know what he's going to be doing for work in 2010, though he seems to have a pretty good idea what he won't be doing, and that's donning a major league uniform and heading out to the mound anytime soon. Glavine is aware that his playing days are likely over, yet like Barry Bonds and Frank Thomas, he has yet to officially announce his retirement.

So if he has a future in the game of baseball it's going to be serving as a coach, a member of a front office or maybe in a television broadcast booth. All opportunities that Glavine is currently mulling over with the franchise he spent the majority of his career playing for, the Atlanta Braves. Neither the Braves nor Glavine are sure just what he'll be doing for them, but it seems that an announcement is just around the corner.

"We're talking about a hodgepodge of things," Glavine said. "I don't want to commit to something and then determine that I don't like it or that the club doesn't like me in that role. That's why I may get a taste of a couple of different things."

Glavine's plan is to officially announce his retirement once he and the Braves have figured out what they want him to do for the club. They've talked about everything from putting him in the broadcast booth, giving him a front office job (much like his former teammate and possible fellow Hall of Fame inductee Greg Maddux), or even having him travel from one Braves minor-league affiliate to the other as an instructor.

Still, much like his retirement, Glavine isn't sure he wants to commit to anything just yet. As of now he says he's enjoying the time he's been able to spend with his family, and is currently in Canada where he's coaching his nine-year old son's hockey team.