bench -- I described the Glaus of April as having undergone Greg Norton surgery -- has become one of the two men (Heyward being the other) these Braves can't do without. Obvious question: What changed? Glaus' answer: "It didn't feel any different in April. It's the results that are different." Glaus has been around. As an Angel, he was the MVP of the Rally Monkey World Series in 2002. Last December he became Wren's greatest reach: A 33-year-old coming off shoulder surgery who was being asked to play first base, a position mostly foreign to him. So how did it feel, coming to a new city and playing on the other side of the diamond and hearing boos from the first week on? "It wasn't a whole lot of fun," Glaus said. "I thought I was having good at-bats -- obviously some bad ones, too -- but this is a result-oriented business. At some point you've got to say, 'I need to get a hit now.' " In April he couldn't buy a hit with American Express. In May he batted .330. And the reconfigured first baseman who's making $1.175 million has driven in more runs in 2010 than the Phillies' first baseman, and Ryan Howard just signed a contract extension for $125 million. Funny old world, huh? "I'm not here for numbers," Glaus said. "I'm here to help the team win. That's been the goal from Day 1. For the first 3 1/2 or four weeks, it didn't work