According to The Chive. There are some good Colon gifs there for your entertainment.
Seriously? Barolo Colon, whose career started in 1997, is the last remaining Montreal Expo in MLB? The Expos moved to Washington to start the 2005 season as the Nationals. This is only the 11th season without baseball in Montreal. I can’t believe there wasn’t some young kid on that roster who stuck it out in MLB.
This site listed the last 5 Expos. Will Maicier Izturis come back? I’m just baffled that there is only one Expo left and it’s Bart Colon. His last game with them was in 2002!
Is Scott Downs’s career finally over? I never quite trust left-handed relievers to be done until you decapitate them, drive a stake through their heart, and give them a job either in the front office or the broadcast booth.
Tomo Ohka is trying to come back as a knuckleball pitcher, but he’s 39 years old and the longest of the long shots to make it back to the major leagues.
My favorite “last man standing” was Jim Kaat. In 1983 we were down to three or four former Washington Senators, and one of them was Kaat, who was an old-old Senator (last season 1960, now the Twins) as opposed to a new-old Senator (last season 1971, now the Rangers).
And Colon has actually been pitching very well so far (we’ll see how long that lasts, but still!)
One of my favorite bits of sports trivia is that the last MLB player (not counting one-game appearances) to have played in the old Negro Leagues was Henry Aaron.
The last New York Giant (Willie Mays) and the last Brooklyn Dodger (Bob Aspromonte) both finished their careers with the two teams’ NL successor, the New York Mets.
Has any other fat pitcher since Mickey Lolich had such a long career?
I coulda sworn the last Expo would be Izturis. He still may be.
Good call. The guy who observed “I never heard of a player going on the disabled list with pulled fat.”
ML players’ careers are typically over much quicker than you might think. Unless the 'Spos had some young phenom or two playing for them at the moment that switched cities, the chance that there would be no active player from their last Canadian squad is much higher than you might think. A 24 year old would be 35 now, and most baseball players retire before reaching age 35.