Nobody expected what the Yankees got out of Bartolo Colon in the first half of the season, nobody not even the Yankees. What they got out of him was two full months of brilliance. No he was not ace-like, but he was a phenomenal no. 2 starter.
He did that mostly with a two-seam fastball that he had perfect command with that also broke nearly a foot. It was a pitch he relied heavily on as he threw it about 40 percent of the time.
However, since coming back from the DL the pitch just hasn’t been the same. It doesn’t often break the 10-11 inches it did before he went out and when it does it seems like he can’t throw it where he wants to. Last night was a culmination of that as he almost completely abandoned the pitch throwing it just three times out of 106 pitches.
So what happens next? Well, Colon said after the game that he thought he pitched well and said that he threw less two-seamers because he had been taken deep twice on the pitch the week before (source). T...
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