A Baseball Hall of Famer's Brother Has Made A Name for Himself at Northeastern
Mike Glavine coaches college baseball's hottest team as Northeastern chases a return to Omaha.
On Sept. 25, 2003, Mike Glavine started at first base for the New York Mets in a 3-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The otherwise insignificant matchup of teams that finished 75-87 and fourth place in the National League Central (Pittsburgh) and a dismal 66-95 and last in the NL East (New York) made history: With Mike at first and brother Tom making the start on the mound, the Glavines became the Mets first siblings to team up.
The Glavine Family reunion didn’t last long. Mike’s Major League Baseball career lasted only two weeks, during which he connected for half as many base hits (one) as Tom won Cy Young Awards in his career.
Tom Glavine’s MLB resume is as good as it gets, with the two Cy Youngs in 1991 and 1998 and World Series MVP in 1995 headlining his 2014 induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was a pillar of a starting pitching staff that has an argument as Major League’s greatest ever, teaming with Greg Maddux and John Smoltz for the Atlanta Braves.
Mike Glavine’s MLB resume isn’t quite as impressive: The one hit in seven at-bats for a .143 average and .286 OPS. His two weeks for the last-place Mets hardly afforded Mike the opportunity to make any impression on World Series history, though his lone base hit did come against eventual winner of the 2003 Fall Classic, the Marlins.
Mike Glavine might not have come anywhere near the legendary status Tom Glavine earned in Major League Baseball. Nevertheless, Mike is leaving an impressive stamp on the sport — with his best still yet to come.
In the 2025 Coastal Athletic Association Championship, Mike Glavine’s No. 19-ranked Northeastern University Huskies rallied from two different three-run deficits to beat UNC Wilmington, 9-6.
The win sewed up Northeastern’s dual CAA regular-season and tournament championships along with an automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals.
More impressive is that it extended the Huskies’ nation-long leading streak to an astounding 27 games. That’s only five shy of matching college baseball’s longest winning streak since Utah Valley in 2012, and seven away from matching the sport’s all-time longest run.
Now, should Northeastern match FAU’s 34 straight wins in 1999, it would mean the Huskies are playing in Omaha at the College World Series. Northeastern has quickly blossomed into a consistent winner since alum Glavine took over as head coach in 2015.
Its upcoming NCAA Regional appearance marks the program’s fourth since 2018 and third since 2021. Glavine’s tenure now accounts for one-third of Northeastern’s all-time trips to the NCAAs. The 2025 Huskies will head into Selection Monday with a strong case to host at Parsons Field, where they are 23-1.
At home or away, however, Northeastern has the makeup of a College World Series contender. A trio of batters hitting from .325 to .379, each with 10-plus home runs, power the Huskies offense. Jack Goodman is posting a .325 average with 10 homers, Cam Maldonado is hitting .371 with 15 home runs and after his CAA Championship MVP-winning performance, Harrison Feinberg is hitting .379 with 18 home runs.
Both Maldonado and Feinberg have OPS north of 1.150, and each have stolen bases with the best in the sport at 29 and 36 swipes. Maldonado’s outstanding all-around play comes as no surprise; he was a 2023 Freshman All-American, has an impressive Cape Cod Summer League campaign on his resume, and is projected as an MLB draft prospect.
The USC transfer Feinberg’s sensational 2025, meanwhile, is reaching a crescendo at the perfect time to propel himself into the MLB draft — and to help send Northeastern to Omaha.
But if the Huskies are to make their first College World Series since 1966, it’s fitting that a team headed by a Glavine relies primarily on an otherworldly starting pitching rotation.
Mike Glavine’s three primary starters — Will Jones, Jordan Gottesman and Aiven Cabral — head into the NCAAs with ERAs of 1.82, 2.30 and 2.74. All three rank in the top 33 of all Div. I pitchers for earned run average, including Gottesman at No. 13 and Jones at No. 3.
Jones’ ascent to become one of the most dominant pitchers in college baseball is especially remarkable. As noted in a Northeastern Global News piece from earlier this month, the left-hander did not throw at all in his first two seasons in the program.
He’s now a linchpin for a pitching staff that, with a collective 2.92 ERA, leads the nation — including perennial College World Series contenders Coastal Carolina, North Carolina, Texas and LSU.
Invoking Maddux, Smoltz and Tom Glavine to describe the Jones, Gottesman and Cabral triumvirate may be on the hyperbolic side. But on the 30-year anniversary of The Big Three pitching Atlanta to a World Series championship, there’s an undeniable poetry to Northeastern’s own Big Three leading a College World Series run.