And conditioning never has been his strong point.
I recall being in the players' parking lot at Maryvale (Brewers' spring training) when Colon, then with the Angels, drove in. He was scheduled to start in a "B" game. He was already in uniform and climbed down out of his pickup with a one liter Mexican Coke in hand (made with sugar, not HFCS).
He polished it off with a couple of large swigs, tossed it back in the cab...and grabbed another one before waddling his way to the visitors' clubhouse.
Up close, he is incredibly round!
no kidding, but in the clips of this throw, he looked mighty nimble for such a big guy.
42 year old Bartolo Colon is the second oldest active player behind LaTroy Hawkins of the Colorado Rockies. LaTroy will be the last player born in 1972 to play.
The 11 oldest players were born before 1976. #10 in age Randy Choate turned 40 yesterday. David Ortiz turns 40 in November.
LaTroy Hawkins 42 12/21/1972 COL
Bartolo Colon 42 5/24/1973 NYM
Ichiro Suzuki* 41 10/22/1973 MIA
R.A. Dickey 40 10/29/1974 TOR
Koji Uehara 40 4/3/1975 BOS
Rafael Betancourt 40 4/29/1975 COL
Tim Hudson 40 7/14/1975 SFG
Torii Hunter 40 7/18/1975 MIN
Alex Rodriguez 40 7/27/1975 NYY
Randy Choate 40 9/5/1975 STL
David Ortiz 39 11/18/1975 BOS
I know Big Papi has signed on to play next year. Don’t know who else of the 40 plus club will be playing.