You would think, coming off two years wasted to arm injuries and without a major league job (he signed a minor league deal with the Red Sox), that Bartolo Colon might actually try to get in shape for once. You would be wrong.
I know fat pitchers don’t have a long history of pitching well after losing weight, and I don’t expect Colon to show up looking like Kent Tekulve. But you would think that slightly better conditioning would be on the menu, rather than showing up for camp even more overweight than usual.
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I never expected to read a Kent Tekulve reference today.
The mind set of the professional athlete is that this is what has worked for me before, why should I change. That is why you rarely see a substantial change in the way an athlete goes about his business.
They change when they have to. Colon is apparently slow to realize he has to.
Here in Red Sox Nation we are hopeful that Colon will be able to eat up some innings. Clearly he has an apptitude for that.