Bartolo Colon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 285 lb

BornMay 24, 1973 · Altamira, Puerto Plata, D.R.

MLB debutApril 4, 1997

Final gameSeptember 22, 2018

Seasons21 (1997–2018)

Cleveland Indians 1997–2002; Montreal Expos 2002; Chicago White Sox 2003; Anaheim Angels 2004; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2005–2007; Boston Red Sox 2008; Chicago White Sox 2009; New York Yankees 2011; Oakland Athletics 2012–2013; New York Mets 2014–2016; Atlanta Braves 2017; Minnesota Twins 2017; Texas Rangers 2018

Percentile snapshot

2016 season — qualified pitchers

87.7

71.2

SHO

200

16.4

68.5

94.5

128

41.1

191.7

ERA

3.43

68.5

WHIP

1.210

57.5

K/9

6.01

5.5

FIP

4.03

43.8

FIP-

100.2

32.9

ERA+

117.3

64.4

sWAR

3.0

60.3

of 74 qualified 2016 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.0

61.1

sWAR

42.1

98.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1997	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.0	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1998	31	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	168.7	160.1	.449	4.3
1999	32	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	-42.4	-27.6	.129	4.3
2000	30	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.8	-100.0	.000	4.1
2001	34	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	-38.3	-24.7	.128	3.4
2002	33	49	45	1	6	0	0	3	0	23	.133	.149	.133	.282	-46.9	-26.8	.132	6.1
2003	34	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.3	-100.0	.000	3.7
2004	34	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.0	-100.0	.000	0.9
2005	33	3	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	80.1	81.4	.298	4.2
2006	10	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.3	-100.0	.000	0.2
2007	19	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.1	-100.0	.000	-1.0
2008	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.7	-100.0	.000	0.6
2009	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
2011	29	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.7	-100.0	.000	2.0
2012	24	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.5	-100.0	.000	2.4
2013	30	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	4.6
2014	31	69	62	3	2	1	0	0	0	33	.032	.032	.048	.081	-105.1	-77.1	.035	0.0
2015	33	64	58	2	8	1	0	4	0	24	.138	.150	.155	.305	-31.0	-14.3	.138	0.9
2016	34	65	60	4	5	2	1	2	1	40	.083	.098	.167	.265	-44.9	-29.7	.115	3.0
2017	28	20	19	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.0	-100.0	.000	-2.0
2018	28	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.6	-100.0	.000	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1997	19	17	4	7	1	0	107	59	45	66	12	94.0	5.65	1.617	6.32	4.93	105.8	82.5	-0.1
1998	31	31	14	9	6	2	205	84	79	158	15	204.0	3.71	1.392	6.97	3.83	80.8	128.0	4.3
1999	32	32	18	5	1	1	185	90	76	161	24	205.0	3.95	1.273	7.07	4.37	86.9	127.3	4.3
2000	30	30	15	8	2	1	163	81	98	212	21	188.0	3.88	1.388	10.15	4.05	80.3	130.0	4.1
2001	34	34	14	12	1	0	220	101	90	201	26	222.3	4.09	1.394	8.14	4.05	88.7	111.7	3.4
2002	33	33	20	8	8	3	219	76	70	149	20	233.3	2.93	1.239	5.75	3.73	84.2	151.2	6.1
2003	34	34	15	13	9	0	223	104	67	173	30	242.0	3.87	1.198	6.43	4.17	94.8	113.6	3.7
2004	34	34	18	12	0	0	215	116	71	158	38	208.3	5.01	1.373	6.83	5.08	113.0	89.7	0.9
2005	33	33	21	8	2	0	215	86	43	157	26	222.7	3.48	1.159	6.35	3.78	88.9	122.4	4.2
2006	10	10	1	5	1	1	71	32	11	31	11	56.3	5.11	1.456	4.95	5.37	119.0	88.3	0.2
2007	19	18	6	8	0	0	132	70	29	76	15	99.3	6.34	1.621	6.89	4.77	105.8	71.1	-1.0
2008	7	7	4	2	0	0	44	17	10	27	5	39.0	3.92	1.385	6.23	4.37	96.7	115.1	0.6
2009	12	12	3	6	0	0	69	29	21	38	13	62.3	4.19	1.444	5.49	5.74	123.9	110.7	0.9
2011	29	26	8	10	1	1	172	73	40	135	21	164.3	4.00	1.290	7.39	3.86	91.5	105.6	2.0
2012	24	24	10	9	0	0	161	58	23	91	17	152.3	3.43	1.208	5.38	3.77	96.1	114.6	2.4
2013	30	30	18	6	3	3	193	56	29	117	14	190.3	2.65	1.166	5.53	3.26	83.9	146.6	4.6
2014	31	31	15	13	0	0	218	92	30	151	22	202.3	4.09	1.226	6.72	3.54	101.9	84.9	0.0
2015	33	31	14	13	1	1	217	90	24	136	25	194.7	4.16	1.238	6.29	3.87	102.6	90.6	0.9
2016	34	33	15	8	0	0	200	73	32	128	24	191.7	3.43	1.210	6.01	4.03	100.2	117.3	3.0
2017	28	28	7	14	1	0	192	103	35	89	28	143.0	6.48	1.587	5.60	5.21	117.5	68.4	-2.0
2018	28	24	7	12	1	0	172	94	25	81	32	146.3	5.78	1.346	4.98	5.51	117.5	81.1	-0.4

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

565

326

299

RBI

166

.0836

OBP

.0921

SLG

.1070

OPS

.1991

Pitching

G (P)

565

299th-most career G (P)

552

30th-most career GS

247

51st-most career W

188

57th-most career L

SHO

478th-most career SHO

3,462

77th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,535

37th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

948

138th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.118

WHIP

1.3118

K/9

6.59

270th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2016-05-07	NYM @ SD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
2016-08-26	PHI @ NYM Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	3
2002-08-09	WSH @ MIL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2
2015-05-31	MIA @ NYM Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	2
2014-06-18	NYM @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1998-05-29	CLE @ TOR Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	2	14	0
2000-09-18	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	1	13	0
2000-06-03	CLE @ STL Gameday	8.0	3	2	2	2	12	0
2000-05-17	DET @ CLE Gameday	7.0	6	2	2	2	12	1
1999-10-06	BOS @ CLE Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	3	11	1

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Cy Young Award4× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.