Willie Mays is the only other Mets player to homer at age 42 or older. Colon's major league debut was April 4, 1997, in a no-decision for Cleveland against the Angels. Franco was his teammate.

Bartolo kicked off his Rangers tenure with a solid 3.55 ERA over his first nine starts, but finished the season with a 7-12 record and 5.78 ERA over 146 innings pitched.

Mets right-hander Bartolo Colon has been named by NL All-Star manager Terry Collins as the replacement for the Giants' Madison Bumgarner, who is unavailable because he will pitch Sunday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Mets aren't the only team interested in landing Bartolo Colon. PLUS: Everything you need to know about Mets' busy Wednesday MLB.com's Mark Bowman reported Thursday that the ...

— -- The Atlanta Braves have designated veteran pitcher Bartolo Colon for assignment, the team announced Thursday. Colon, 44, an All-Star last season with the New York Mets, had been a ...

Trade deadline deals are the sport’s most tempting game of “what if.” Sometimes it’s a veteran rental who makes a playoff ...

JUPITER, Fla. - Matt Holliday hit his first home run this spring, a long drive off Bartolo Colon that helped the St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Mets 3-1 on Monday.

Flores, Colon lead Mets over Phillies 6-3With the score 3-all, Daniel Murphy led off the sixth with a single off Elvis Araujo (1-1), De Fratus walked Cuddyer, and Flores homered off the original ...

Bartolo Colon is a joy to watch, a wild outlier, a historically significant major leaguer, one of the best pitchers of his generation and clearly worse than the average Hall of Fame starter. That ...

LOS ANGELES -- Top that, Bartolo Colon! One day shy of the one-year anniversary of his major league debut, Noah Syndergaard became the second pitcher in franchise history to hit two home runs in a ...