Glavine decline player option

Just so whoever happens to read this knows, I'm not doing those playoff things for the NL, I was going to but the playoffs have started and I don't see the point of it at this point, but I will do my NL picks later.

Anyways, Tom Glavine has decided to decline his 13 million player option and go for Free Agency. I find this kind of puzzling for a few reasons, one being that theres no way he'll get more than 13 mil on the open market no matter how good his agent is, second being that this could either mean the end of his career or a return to Atlanta. A team like the Nationals or D'Rays or Royals could also look to sign him to mentor their young starters and teach them the ropes and teach them how to pitch without a 95 MPH heater.

The Mets are hoping they can resign him on the open market, but it is clear, to me at least and probably them, that if he wanted to stay in New York that he would've simply exercised his option, which means that the chances of him returning to pitch as a Met are very slim.

I would say that there is also a fair chance that he retires and goes into the Hall of Fame in five years.

My feeling, however, is that he will return to wash the taste of the Mets collapse out of his mouth with a team near the east coast. I'd say his most likely destinations, should be return, would be Atlanta, Washington, Tampa Bay with the Mets being a long shot. He would serve as a mentor in Washington or Tampa, with possibly having a chance to contend in Tampa depending on how things go, but in Atlanta he would have a chance to win another ring.

No matter what he does he is a great pitcher and a surefire, first ballot Hall of Famer.