50-year-old Cy Young winner retires.

MLB insider Hector Gomez reveals that four-time All Star and 2005 AL Cy Young Award ,

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winner Bartolo Colon has decided to hang up his mitt. At the age of 50,

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"Big Sexy" last pitched in the major leagues at the conclusion of the 2018 season,

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but he last did so in the independent Mexican League during the 2021 campaign.

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Gomez points out that on August 26, before the New York Mets' game against the Angels ,

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(against whom Colon won the Cy Young award during a stretch of four years with the Halos),

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In 1997, Colon's MLB career got underway in Cleveland. A consistent worker for the team from 1998 to 2001,

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