Soothsaying for Sixteen: Bartolo Colón

[Edgy MD]

I challenge you to put down what you think my 2016 season will look like, because everything about me confounds expectations. I'm old. I'm portly. I learned a new skill in my forties. I was signed with the idea that I'll last until I don't and then be tossed over, but I doggedly stuck around through the course of my contract. If I pitch stinky for a few weeks and look like I'm done, I turn a corner, like, EVERY TIME.

And now I got a new contract, and I was offered more than one. If it was anybody else, you'd say I was due to retire before breaking camp. But it's not. It's me. What's 2016 gonna look like for me?

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[Guest cooby classic]

Bartolo, you will have a good year. Not your best, but not too shabby. We fans will love you because, as we age, we need more heroes that hang in there.


God bless you darling

[Lefty Specialist]

9-8, 4.10, lotsa laffs. Moves to the pen without complaint and excels when Zach takes off the training Wheels.

[MFS62]

10-9, 4.25 ERA, 10 "holds" after he moves to the bullpen when Wheeler arrives mid year, and at least one game-winning RBI.
And lots of jerseys sold with his name on the back. He is one popular dude.

Later

[Guest cooby classic]

oooh I like the GWRBI!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

6-7, 4.20, 28 Games (14 starts), 108 innings, 70 K, 14 BB, 120 hits

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

All fun? No, compadres. He'll get hammered a little in July, a few weeks after moving to the pen; but, yeah, he'll right the ship by August. The buoyancy probably helps wit-- [is clobbered by low-hanging fruit]

40 G, 17 GS, 131 IP, 8-5, 3.96 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 6.29 K/9, 1.28 BB/9, 17 HR allowed

[MFS62]

cooby wrote: oooh I like the GWRBI!

Hey, who knows?
Could even be a dinger.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/03/bartolo-colon-home-run-broke-tree-mets

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

MFS62 wrote: oooh I like the GWRBI! Hey, who knows? Could even be a dinger. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/03/bartolo-colon-home-run-broke-tree-mets Later

If he ever did that in a regular season game, CitiField would collapse.

[Guest d'Kong76]

.500 pitcher with 1-2 of the losses not his fault (no run-support or errors).
Traded in July, and we all feel a little less complete without Unclebart on
the team for our playoff run.

[Guest cooby classic]

Boo!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Fear not, coobs... my Unclebart gets traded predictions have come and
gone like a half dozen times already!

[Guest cooby classic]

Whew! So your saying it makes it NOT so...

[ashie62]

11-9 180 innings 1.08 whip

2 hits

[TransMonk]

Is Bartolo Colon the Best 43-Year-Old Pitcher of All Time?

[Edgy MD]

Among all the statements of respect in this thread, nobody respected Colón enough to predect the magnitude of the season he had I think the closest we come is some combination of cooby, LeiterWagner, and Ashie. But even then, we're not particularly close to the season he had.

Poster	W	L	WIN%	Hd	ERA	G	GS	IP	SO	BB	HR	WHIP	H	GWRBI	Characterization
cooby														>0	A good year. Not his best, but not too shabby.
Lefty Specialist	9	8	.529		4.10										Lotta laffs. Half the season in the pen.
MFS62	10	9	.526	10	4.25									>0	Lots of jerseys sold.
John Cougar Lunchbucket	6	7	.462			28	14	108.0	70	14
LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr	8	5	.615		3.96	40	17	131.0	92	19	17	1.220			Terrible July in the bullpen.
d'Kong76			.500												Absorbs 1 completely unjust loss, traded in July.
Ashie62	11	9	.550					180.0				1.080	2
BARTOLO COLON	15	8	.652	0	3.43	34	33	191.2	128	32	24	1.210	3	0	.530