Bartolo Colon

About Bartolo Colon

All-Star starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels who won 21 games and won the Cy Young Award in 2005. In 2015, he assisted the New York Mets in reaching the World Series.

Bartolo Colón, nicknamed "Big Sexy", is a Dominican-American professional baseball pitcher for the Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican League. He played in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians, Montreal Expos, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, Minnesota Twins, and Texas Rangers. Colón made four MLB All-Star Games: for the Indians, Angels, Athletics, and Mets. He won the American League Cy Young Award with the Angels in 2005, when he led the American League in wins. Early in the 2016 season, Colón was 42 when he became the oldest MLB player to hit his first career home run. At age 45 during the 2018 season, Colón was the oldest active MLB player and the last active Major Leaguer who played for the Montreal Expos. He holds the record for most career wins by a Latin American-born pitcher.

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Trivia

Early in his career he had a blistering fastball that sat in the mid-90s; as his velocity faded, he learned to rely more on movement.

Bartolo Colon before fame

He grew up without indoor plumbing, electricity, or running water in Altamira, Dominican Republic.

Achievement of Bartolo Colon

Early in his career he had a blistering fastball that sat in the mid-90s; as his velocity faded, he learned to rely more on movement.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$55 Million

Bartolo Colon family life

He married Rosanna, a woman he had known since he was thirteen years old. They had four sons together.

Associations of Bartolo Colon

Shortstop with excellent fielding skills On the Cleveland Indians, he was teammates with Omar Vizquel.

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