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2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Benjamin Grimm Mar 05 2014 06:19 PM

It was moderately popular last year, so we'll try it again this year. IPP stands for Individual Player Predictions. These will be threads where we share our expectations of how a player will perform in the current year. Feel free to make your predictions as specific or as vague as you like. (You can find a listing of the 2013 IPPs here.) Bartolo Colon is definitely a candidate to be traded in August if the Mets season falls apart or if there's a critical mass of young pitchers who are ready to displace him and Colon has trade value to a contender. I think he'll make it through the season as a Met. 30 starts, 180 innings, 3.60 ERA.

Vic Sage Mar 05 2014 06:23 PM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

20 GS / 120 IP / 7-9, 3.75 era -- traded at the deadline for an A-ball pitcher with a high ceiling.

smg58 Mar 05 2014 06:49 PM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Barto will finish with 15 wins and a 3.00 ERA. Whether he's here beyond July depends on the rest of the team.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 06 2014 01:05 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

28 starts, 175 IP, 11-8, 3.48 ERA, 16 HR allowed, 118 K, 28 BB, and a whole lotta jiggly fun

Ashie62 Mar 06 2014 01:36 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

30 starts 11-11 3.75

TheOldMole Mar 06 2014 02:07 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

12 wins, 3.75 ERA.

metirish Mar 06 2014 02:29 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

14 wins - 8 losses 2.95 ERA - 30 starts - stays the season, with that contract they would have to eat most of it and what they would get back would be what?, might as well keep him. I think he will do well.

Frayed Knot Mar 06 2014 03:00 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

metirish wrote: 14 wins - 8 losses 2.95 ERA - 30 starts - stays the season, with that contract they would have to eat most of it and what they would get back would be what?, might as well keep him. I think he will do well. Won't be the last time that phrase is used in a Bartolo Colon assessment.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 06 2014 03:38 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

When informed that the Mets will be at home this fourth of July, 7-time defending champ Joey Chestnut ups his training routine.

metirish Mar 06 2014 04:01 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Frayed Knot wrote: metirish wrote: 14 wins - 8 losses 2.95 ERA - 30 starts - stays the season, with that contract they would have to eat most of it and what they would get back would be what?, might as well keep him. I think he will do well. Won't be the last time that phrase is used in a Bartolo Colon assessment. Oh Christ, lol

MFS62 Mar 06 2014 04:25 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Not ready to predict yet. When is El Gordo going to pitch his first ST game? Later

d'Kong76 Mar 09 2014 05:27 PM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Think he'll be fine, and carry his weight. Good trading chip probably when the Mets are wilting in the summer heat.

Nymr83 Mar 09 2014 06:28 PM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Injured by Memorial Day! 20 starts with a 3.75 ERA

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 10 2014 01:11 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

I foresee a kind of Pedro Astacio/Livan Hernandez ish trajectory, i.e.: Will probably exceed projections early but not always. He's better than those guys of course, so let's say: 14-9, 3.57 in 31 starts/186.1 innings. Keeps in in the strike zone and in the park.

Edgy MD Mar 10 2014 01:51 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

11-8, 3.69. He'll lose a few decisions as Terry will tend to pull him early.

Frayed Knot Mar 10 2014 11:43 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

d'Kong76 wrote: Think he'll be fine, and carry his weight. ... The jokes just kind of pop up everywhere whether one is trying or not.

Lefty Specialist Mar 10 2014 03:10 PM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

I'm guessing he'll be able to pound the strike zone with regularity, which will tip the scales in his favor. 12-12, 3.90, 68 hot dogs.

Ceetar Mar 10 2014 06:37 PM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

3.51 ERA. 14-8 record. 170 innings pitched. 98 Ks.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 10 2014 06:46 PM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Did anyone yet mention that Colon could be the Mets best inning-eater? 'Cause I'll go with that one if no one else did.

Lefty Specialist Mar 10 2014 06:52 PM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Did anyone yet mention that Colon could be the Mets best inning-eater? 'Cause I'll go with that one if no one else did. Yes, but those innings always seem to go to his hips.

Zvon Mar 12 2014 03:48 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Wins 16, 3.47 ERA

MFS62 Mar 12 2014 04:03 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

15-10, 3.89 ERA. 35 starts. Its a good thing Legares has an acurate arm, because if Colon has to run to back up third, he might not get there in time. There, I said it. But I suspect the fat jokes will decline as the wins start to pile up. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 12 2014 04:13 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

Friend, I don't want to live in a world where the fat jokes decline, regardless of reason.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 27 2014 09:24 AM Re: 2014 IPP: Bartolo Colon

28 starts, 175 IP, 11-8, 3.48 ERA, 16 HR allowed, 118 K, 28 BB, and a whole lotta jiggly fun [youtube]oShTJ90fC34[/youtube] Think he'll be fine, and carry his weight. When informed that the Mets will be at home this fourth of July, 7-time defending champ Joey Chestnut ups his training routine. [fimg=433]http://s3.amazonaws.com/stnd-culture-staging/photos/16841/medium.jpg[/fimg] I'm guessing he'll be able to pound the strike zone with regularity, which will tip the scales in his favor. 12-12, 3.90, 68 hot dogs. [youtube]gpaOy8b8X6A[/youtube] Did anyone yet mention that Colon could be the Mets best inning-eater? 'Cause I'll go with that one if no one else did. Yes, but those innings always seem to go to his hips. Friend, I don't want to live in a world where the fat jokes decline, regardless of reason. No more Bartolo fat jokes!!!!! Bartolo Colon fat jokes prompt Mets to boycott reporter By Dayn Perry | Baseball Writer April 26, 2014 6:10 pm ET The Mets would like you to stop making Bartolo Colon jokes. It would seem that the Mets have grown weary of "fat jokes" made at the expense of right-hander Bartolo Colon. As Justin Tasch of the New York Daily News writes, the Mets following their 4-3 win over the Marlins on Friday undertook a boycott of sorts: Apparently angry about an article in the New York Post on Friday about Bartolo Colon under the headline “LARDBALL,” the players would not talk to the media until Post writer Mike Puma left the clubhouse. Puma was asked to leave and did so without incident. Within a minute, several Mets appeared in the clubhouse. The team would not comment on the incident. While that headline was almost certainly not Puma's doing, this was his lede from the article in question: If the umpires searched Bartolo Colon's neck for a foreign substance on Thursday, chances are they only would have found peanut butter. Presumably, the Mets have made their point, and relations will continue on a normal basis going forward. As for the Bartolo Colon jokes, well, they're likely to continue apace. Trying to resist one right now, in fact. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-bas ... t-reporter