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Role Grows Even Bigger for Outsize Pitcher Bartolo Colon - The New
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Braves: Colon, Dickey are bridge in rebuild, not new blueprint
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Bartolo Colón celebrated for 21-year career, announcing retirement 5 years after last pitch
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Aging Athletics Pitcher's Substantive Success - The New York Times
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MLB Spring Training: Bartolo Colon and 10 Yankees Who Might Make Opening Day, News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
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TIL 42 year old New York Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon used stem cells to regenerate broken tissue in his throwing arm. He is the oldest pitcher in the MLB. : r/todayilearned
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Role Grows Even Bigger for Outsize Pitcher Bartolo Colon - The New York Times
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Bartolo Colon by the numbers: How Big Sexy has defied the odds and lasted 20 years in the big leagues
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Bartolo Colon controls the secret of baseball
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At 40, Colon Continues to Defy Time and Weight - The New York Times
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Role Grows Even Bigger for Outsize Pitcher Bartolo Colon - The New York Times
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Bartolo Colon, The Most Athletic Fat Guy in Baseball
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Bartolo Colon tossed a (big, sexy) complete game at 44 years old
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Colon arrives to A's camp, doesn't address media
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The Fat Man Pitcheth. Bartolo Colon's shape — effectively, a…, by Robert Silverman