Bartolo Colón

Bartolo Colón is genuinely one of my favorite baseball stories ever told. Here's a guy from a tiny town in the Dominican Republic who — by every visual stereotype of what a "professional athlete" is supposed to look like — had no business being one of the most durable starting pitchers in MLB history. Big Sexy earned that nickname for real: rotund, unhurried, perpetually smiling on the mound, and yet he pitched well into his 40s across 11 different teams, racking up 247 career wins and winning the 2005 AL Cy Young Award with the Angels. His 2016 home run for the Mets broke the internet precisely because it felt so gloriously absurd, and that's Bartolo in a nutshell — a walking, throwing reminder that grit, a filthy fastball command, and sheer love of the game will outlast every slick projection model anyone ever wrote about you.

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Name (English)

Bartolo Colón

Name (Japanese)

バートロ・コローン

Reading

ばーとろ・ころーん

Born

May 24, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Altamira, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolo%20Col%C3%B3n
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2886078

Tags

• Puerto Plata Province
• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.