Hi, hello & welcome to THE USB Baseball Report! I'm Steve Cook, and we're right in the middle of one of the best times of the sports year. The NBA & NHL playoffs are in full effect with games just about every night. The English Premier League just had Championship Sunday. The NFL had its Draft. Sometimes it's tough for baseball to get attention with all this other stuff going on, but there are certain events that stand out. One of those events took place Saturday.
The Home Run Heard Around The World
Bartolo Colon is certainly a cult favorite among MLB fans everywhere. The oldest active player in baseball at 42 years & 351 days, the man known as "Big Sexy" has bounced all around the world of baseball. He started out in Cleveland, got traded to Montreal for a playoff run, spent a year with the Chicago White Sox, went to the Angels for four seasons & a Cy Young Award, had a injury-shortened stint in Boston, had another year with the White Sox, spent a year as a Yankee, went to Oakland for two years & had an All-Star Game appearance at the age of 40, and has spent the last three seasons as the veteran presence in the New York Mets' dynamic young starting rotation, helping cultivate the next generation of great pitching talent.
You may have noticed that most of those were American League teams. Until his stint with the Mets, Big Bart had only played seventeen games as a member of a National League team. He had accumulated 104 regular season plate appearances during the first sixteen years of his career, so he never really had a reason to master the art of batting. And to say people have noticed this would be a great understatement.
