2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

[Benjamin Grimm]

It was moderately popular last year, so we'll try it again this year. IPP stands for Individual Player Predictions. These will be threads where we share our expectations of how a player will perform in the current year. Feel free to make your predictions as specific or as vague as you like. (You can find a listing of the 2013 IPPs here.)

Bartolo Colon is definitely a candidate to be traded in August if the Mets season falls apart or if there's a critical mass of young pitchers who are ready to displace him and Colon has trade value to a contender.

I think he'll make it through the season as a Met. 30 starts, 180 innings, 3.60 ERA.

[Vic Sage]

20 GS / 120 IP / 7-9, 3.75 era -- traded at the deadline for an A-ball pitcher with a high ceiling.

[smg58]

Barto will finish with 15 wins and a 3.00 ERA. Whether he's here beyond July depends on the rest of the team.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

28 starts, 175 IP, 11-8, 3.48 ERA, 16 HR allowed, 118 K, 28 BB, and a whole lotta jiggly fun

[ashie62]

30 starts 11-11 3.75

[Theoldmole]

12 wins, 3.75 ERA.

[metirish]

14 wins - 8 losses 2.95 ERA - 30 starts - stays the season, with that contract they would have to eat most of it and what they would get back would be what?, might as well keep him. I think he will do well.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: 14 wins - 8 losses 2.95 ERA - 30 starts - stays the season, with that contract they would have to eat most of it and what they would get back would be what?, might as well keep him. I think he will do well.

Won't be the last time that phrase is used in a Bartolo Colon assessment.

[batmagadanleadoff]

When informed that the Mets will be at home this fourth of July, 7-time defending champ Joey Chestnut ups his training routine.

[metirish]

Frayed Knot wrote: metirish wrote: 14 wins - 8 losses 2.95 ERA - 30 starts - stays the season, with that contract they would have to eat most of it and what they would get back would be what?, might as well keep him. I think he will do well. Won't be the last time that phrase is used in a Bartolo Colon assessment.

Oh Christ, lol

[MFS62]

Not ready to predict yet.
When is El Gordo going to pitch his first ST game?

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

Think he'll be fine, and carry his weight.
Good trading chip probably when the Mets are wilting in
the summer heat.

[nymr83]

Injured by Memorial Day! 20 starts with a 3.75 ERA

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I foresee a kind of Pedro Astacio/Livan Hernandez ish trajectory, i.e.: Will probably exceed projections early but not always.

He's better than those guys of course, so let's say:

14-9, 3.57 in 31 starts/186.1 innings. Keeps in in the strike zone and in the park.

[Edgy MD]

11-8, 3.69. He'll lose a few decisions as Terry will tend to pull him early.

[Frayed Knot]

d'Kong76 wrote: Think he'll be fine, and carry his weight. ...

The jokes just kind of pop up everywhere whether one is trying or not.

[Lefty Specialist]

I'm guessing he'll be able to pound the strike zone with regularity, which will tip the scales in his favor.

12-12, 3.90, 68 hot dogs.

[Ceetar]

3.51 ERA. 14-8 record. 170 innings pitched. 98 Ks.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Did anyone yet mention that Colon could be the Mets best inning-eater? 'Cause I'll go with that one if no one else did.

[Lefty Specialist]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Did anyone yet mention that Colon could be the Mets best inning-eater? 'Cause I'll go with that one if no one else did.

Yes, but those innings always seem to go to his hips.

[Zvon]

Wins 16, 3.47 ERA

[MFS62]

15-10, 3.89 ERA. 35 starts.
Its a good thing Legares has an acurate arm, because if Colon has to run to back up third, he might not get there in time.
There, I said it.
But I suspect the fat jokes will decline as the wins start to pile up.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Friend, I don't want to live in a world where the fat jokes decline, regardless of reason.

[batmagadanleadoff]

28 starts, 175 IP, 11-8, 3.48 ERA, 16 HR allowed, 118 K, 28 BB, and a whole lotta jiggly fun

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Think he'll be fine, and carry his weight.

When informed that the Mets will be at home this fourth of July, 7-time defending champ Joey Chestnut ups his training routine. [fimg=433]http://s3.amazonaws.com/stnd-culture-staging/photos/16841/medium.jpg[/fimg]

I'm guessing he'll be able to pound the strike zone with regularity, which will tip the scales in his favor. 12-12, 3.90, 68 hot dogs.

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Did anyone yet mention that Colon could be the Mets best inning-eater? 'Cause I'll go with that one if no one else did. Yes, but those innings always seem to go to his hips.

Friend, I don't want to live in a world where the fat jokes decline, regardless of reason.

No more Bartolo fat jokes!!!!!


Bartolo Colon fat jokes prompt Mets to boycott reporter
By Dayn Perry | Baseball Writer
April 26, 2014 6:10 pm ET


The Mets would like you to stop making Bartolo Colon jokes.

It would seem that the Mets have grown weary of "fat jokes" made at the expense of right-hander Bartolo Colon. As Justin Tasch of the New York Daily News writes, the Mets following their 4-3 win over the Marlins on Friday undertook a boycott of sorts: Apparently angry about an article in the New York Post on Friday about Bartolo Colon under the headline “LARDBALL,” the players would not talk to the media until Post writer Mike Puma left the clubhouse. Puma was asked to leave and did so without incident. Within a minute, several Mets appeared in the clubhouse. The team would not comment on the incident. While that headline was almost certainly not Puma's doing, this was his lede from the article in question: If the umpires searched Bartolo Colon's neck for a foreign substance on Thursday, chances are they only would have found peanut butter. Presumably, the Mets have made their point, and relations will continue on a normal basis going forward. As for the Bartolo Colon jokes, well, they're likely to continue apace. Trying to resist one right now, in fact.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24540555/bartolo-colon-fat-jokes-prompt-mets-to-boycott-reporter