My Take
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.
Overview
Bartolo Colón (born May 24, 1973), nicknamed "Big Sexy", is a Dominican–American former professional baseball pitcher. He previously played for 11 different Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Cleveland Indians (1997–2002), Montreal Expos (2002), Chicago White Sox (2003, 2009), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004–2007), Boston Red Sox (2008), New York Yankees (2011), Oakland Athletics (2012–2013), New York Mets (2…
1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Ox
- Origin
- Altamira, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 180 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- baseball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.