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Beloved ex-Met Bartolo Colon finally retires from baseball at 50

Bartolo Colon, 50, has officially retired from baseball, Z101’s Hector Gomez reported.

The right-hander, whose Major League career spanned 21 seasons, joined the Mets in 2014 and became a dependable part of the rotation for three seasons.

He threw 31-plus starts each year, with his best statistical season coming in 2016 when he finished 15-8 with a 3.43 ERA and earned his fourth and final All-Star Game selection.

RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: June 03, 2023 at 04:30 PM | 26 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. The Yankee Clapper Posted: June 03, 2023 at 10:22 PM (#6131444)

HOLD THE PRESSES! Bartolo Colon is reportedly NOT retiring. Perhaps the increases in grocery prices made him decide to keep working?

2. ReggieThomasLives Posted: June 03, 2023 at 11:14 PM (#6131448)

Imagine if he had ever been in shape?

3. Cris E Posted: June 03, 2023 at 11:51 PM (#6131451)

Round is a shape...

4. The Duke Posted: June 04, 2023 at 10:30 AM (#6131462)

I know a lot of baseball players that are in good shape but aren't very good.

That's always been one of the attractions of baseball is that you don't have to necessarily be an athlete (or look like an athlete) to play the game at a high level. Probably more true for pitchers than hitters.

Babe Ruth
Kent Tekulve
Mickey lolich
Rusty Staub
Tim Lincecum
Kyle Schwarber /john Kruk - they are really the same guy, right ?
David wells
Smokey burgess
Jon Lester
Greg maddux

5. The Honorable Ardo Posted: June 04, 2023 at 12:56 PM (#6131474)

Add Wilbur Wood to that list.

If I were coaching young pitchers, I'd have them watch Old Bart in action. Four-seam, two-seam, cutter, hitting all four quadrants of the strike zone, topping out at 91. No 100+ heat, no breaking balls, no extraneous motion, just throwing to the catcher's target.

6. Tom and Shivs couples counselor Posted: June 04, 2023 at 01:04 PM (#6131475)

Isn't the leader a guy who got called a fat tub of goo

7. SoSH U at work Posted: June 04, 2023 at 01:07 PM (#6131476)

Isn't the leader a guy who got called a fat tub of goo

A fat tub of goo who was a .400 hitter until his final year in the NL.

8. Walt Davis Posted: June 04, 2023 at 02:08 PM (#6131481)

Ortiz, late Stargell, late Gwynn, Alejandro Kirk, Vogelbach, late Nelson Cruz. Hitting a baseball is hard and, if you can do it, they will pay you to do it even if that's all you can do. And of course that's even more true if you can throw 95 or have good movement on pitches since that's nearly 100% of the job description.

9. Infinite Yost (Voxter)

Posted: June 04, 2023 at 02:21 PM (#6131484)

The progression of Colon's public image over his career always reminds me of a quotation from Chinatown:

"Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."

10. Adam Starblind Posted: June 04, 2023 at 05:58 PM (#6131502)

Amusingly, he was outed in the Mitchell Report as a steroid user. That may account for the home run.

11. The Duke Posted: June 04, 2023 at 09:33 PM (#6131514)

No better proof than Colon that we will never know who took steroids

I assume it was during injury recovery which in my mind is a co
Platelet different thing than using it while active.

12. Howie Menckel Posted: June 04, 2023 at 09:45 PM (#6131515)

also positive for Viagra, perhaps.

as a Met, Colon had two families.
the wife and their 4 kids lived in Clifton, NJ.
the mistress and their 2 kids lived a (in theory only, mostly) modest GW Bridge ride away in Washington Heights in upper Manhattan (trivial: my Dad's last FDNY job was as Battalion Chief in a firehouse there).

the wife apparently was aware of the "arrangement," and afaik they are still married.

he met the mistress at his favorite restaurant - she was his favorite waitress.

13. ReggieThomasLives Posted: June 04, 2023 at 10:42 PM (#6131523)

the wife apparently was aware of the "arrangement," and afaik they are still married.

Love us a wonderful thing.

14. SoSH U at work Posted: June 04, 2023 at 11:32 PM (#6131529)

Amusingly, he was outed in the Mitchell Report as a steroid user. That may account for the home run.

The positive test (and 50-game suspension) for synthetic testosterone also helped ID him as a PED dabbler.

15. cookiedabookie Posted: June 05, 2023 at 08:58 AM (#6131536)

Missed some guys
https://franchisesports.co.uk/10-heaviest-mlb-players-of-all-time/

On the other end, guys like Altuve also make baseball stand out as a skill over athleticism sport

16. Lassus Posted: June 05, 2023 at 09:25 AM (#6131542)

Surprised Garces hadn't been mentioned.

17. jacksone (AKA It's OK...) Posted: June 05, 2023 at 11:47 AM (#6131556)

On the other end, guys like Altuve also make baseball stand out as a skill over athleticism sport

You don't think Altuve is athletic?

18. JJ1986 Posted: June 05, 2023 at 12:07 PM (#6131558)

I assume it was during injury recovery

Based on?

19. base ball chick Posted: June 05, 2023 at 08:58 PM (#6131606)

ReggieThomasLives Posted: June 04, 2023 at 10:42 PM (#6131523)

the wife apparently was aware of the "arrangement," and afaik they are still married.

Love us a wonderful thing.

- "love" - pls

you mean large quantities of $$$ and living in luxury while agreeing to pretend your kids father actually loves you

20. nick swisher hygiene Posted: June 05, 2023 at 09:22 PM (#6131609)

Yeah, and Clifton NJ is hardly luxury in that part of the world: quick check of Redffin shows that there's not a single property there right now listing at more than $1.1 million.

Dude is cheaping out on the homestead to pay his mistresss's rent in gentrifying Washington Heights--not a good look.

Maybe she has a rent-stabilized place though?

21. What did Billy Ripken have against ElRoy Face? Posted: June 05, 2023 at 09:37 PM (#6131611)

he met the mistress at his favorite restaurant - she was his favorite waitress.

I’m not…shocked that he would fall in love with a woman who brings him food.

22. Howie Menckel Posted: June 05, 2023 at 09:50 PM (#6131613)

yeah, I kind of put that one a tee for anyone who needed to get a good swing in

:)

23. Booey Posted: June 05, 2023 at 10:25 PM (#6131615)

No better proof than Colon that we will never know who took steroids

Maybe BALCO offered to make him a box of The Cream filled donuts.

24. ReggieThomasLives Posted: June 06, 2023 at 03:07 PM (#6131665)

I’m not…shocked that he would fall in love with a woman who brings him food.

You should be banned as I'm never going to get all of that milk out of my keyboard.

25. ReggieThomasLives Posted: June 06, 2023 at 03:09 PM (#6131666)

- "love" - pls

you mean large quantities of $$$ and living in luxury while agreeing to pretend your kids father actually loves you

Love is very complicated and very expensive...

26. A triple short of the cycle

Posted: June 08, 2023 at 10:22 PM (#6132126)

Pitching for the A's in 2012, he threw 38 consecutive strikes in a game against the Angels.

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