Players · C · Pitcher · 2018 regular season

Bartolo Colon

Age: 45
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 285 lb
Number: #40

Born: May 24, 1973 in Altamira, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: April 4, 1997

dbWAR: 19.1
IP: 146.1
ERA: 5.78
FIP: 5.47
K/9: 5.0
FIP−: 132

Bartolo Colon was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2018 he struck out 81 batters over 146.1 innings across 28 appearances, 24 of them starts, going 7-12. His ERA of 5.78 was 39.3% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 15th of 20 on his team, and 456th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.47 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.6% of swings (5.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.9%. His -0.3 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2018 regular season.

FIP5.47

K/95.0

WHIP1.35

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2018; his career began in 1997, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2018	TEX	28	24	146.1	7	12	172	94	81	25	5.78	5.47	1.35	5.0	1.5	139	132	-0.3
2017	MIN/ATL	28	28	143.0	7	14	192	103	89	35	6.48	5.21	1.59	5.6	2.2	149	120	0.4
2016	NYM	34	33	191.2	15	8	200	73	128	32	3.43	3.99	1.21	6.0	1.5	82	95	2.7
2015	NYM	33	31	194.2	14	13	217	90	136	24	4.16	3.84	1.24	6.3	1.1	105	97	2.3
2014	NYM	31	31	202.1	15	13	218	92	151	30	4.09	3.57	1.23	6.7	1.3	109	95	2.6
2013	OAK	30	30	190.1	18	6	193	56	117	29	2.65	3.23	1.17	5.5	1.4	68	84	3.5
2012	OAK	24	24	152.1	10	9	161	58	91	23	3.43	3.82	1.21	5.4	1.4	85	95	2.0
2011	NYY	29	26	164.1	8	10	172	73	135	40	4.00	3.83	1.29	7.4	2.2	101	97	2.2
2009	CWS	12	12	62.1	3	6	69	29	38	21	4.19	5.70	1.44	5.5	3.0	97	132	-0.2
2008	BOS	7	7	39.0	4	2	44	17	27	10	3.92	4.34	1.38	6.2	2.3	91	100	0.5
2007	LAA	19	18	99.1	6	8	132	70	76	29	6.34	4.70	1.62	6.9	2.6	142	105	0.9
2006	LAA	10	10	56.1	1	5	71	32	31	11	5.11	5.33	1.46	5.0	1.8	113	118	0.1
2005	LAA	33	33	222.2	21	8	215	86	157	43	3.48	3.75	1.16	6.3	1.7	81	87	3.8

Batting Regular season


2018	TEX	2	4	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.0	-109	-0.0
2017	ATL/MIN	12	20	0	0	0	0	10	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-5.4	-123	-0.2
2016	NYM	30	65	5	1	2	1	40	.083	.098	.167	.083	.211	1.5%	61.5%	.116	-10.7	-39	-0.3
2015	NYM	28	64	8	0	4	0	24	.138	.150	.155	.017	.229	0.0%	37.5%	.136	-9.1	-28	-0.1
2014	NYM	28	69	2	0	0	0	33	.032	.032	.048	.016	.069	0.0%	47.8%	.035	-14.6	-101	-0.6
2013	OAK	3	6	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.5	-126	-0.1
2012	OAK	2	4	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.0	-123	-0.0
2011	NYY	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-116	-0.0
2008	BOS	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-0.0
2007	LAA	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-124	-0.0
2006	LAA	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.6	-129	-0.0
2005	LAA	1	3	1	0	1	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.000	1.000	0.0%	66.7%	.298	-0.1	80	0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Bartolo Colon's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2015 Post	NYM	Postseason total	7	0	8.2	1	1	7	2	1	4	7	2.08	1.27	7.3
		NLDS	3	0	4.0	0	0	3	2	1	0	5	4.50	0.75	11.3
		NLCS	1	0	1.1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.00	0.75	6.8
		World Series	3	0	3.1	0	1	4	0	0	3	1	0.00	2.10	2.7
2013 Post	OAK	ALDS	1	1	6.0	0	1	10	3	0	0	4	4.50	1.67	6.0
2005 Post	LAA	ALDS	2	2	8.0	0	1	10	4	0	2	7	4.50	1.50	7.9
2005–2018		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	10	3	22.2	1	3	27	9	1	6	18	3.57	1.46	7.1

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	293	270	73	7	18	37	.270	.315	.459	.334	12.6%
vs RHB	335	321	99	25	7	44	.308	.322	.620	.396	13.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

Loading 1 batted balls…

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .247.

Pitch sequencing

What Bartolo Colon throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter

SinkerFour-seamChangeupSliderCutter

Select a count to see exactly what Bartolo Colon throws in it.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	62.3%	1,389	86.9	2,136	44.1%	8.4%	379	.290	.864
Four-Seam Fastball	16.4%	365	89.3	2,279	44.4%	15.1%	83	.241	.662
Changeup	11.1%	248	80.8	1,656	43.1%	25.3%	66	.348	1.135
Slider	7.4%	164	80.5	2,388	32.9%	18.3%	45	.267	.788
Cutter	2.8%	62	85.5	2,312	32.3%	12.0%	19	.368	.979

Bartolo Colon's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

Compare Bartolo Colon with…

Side by side with up to three others.

Compare with… add up to 3 more players

Bartolo Colon

Similar players

Nearest 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Corey OswaltNYM

ERA: 5.85
FIP: 5.70
SO: 45
WAR: -0.6

Matt KochAZ

ERA: 4.15
FIP: 5.83
SO: 50
WAR: -0.8

Adrian SampsonTEX

ERA: 4.30
FIP: 6.03
SO: 15
WAR: -0.2

Daniel GossettOAK

ERA: 5.18
FIP: 5.95
SO: 12
WAR: -0.2

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.