Bartolo Colon couldn't possibly be a viable candidate for the Colorado Rockies' 2016 rotation... could he?
We've all seen this movie before. The Rockies sign a pitcher well into his 40s, he pumps in slow fastball after slow fastball, gets crushed (remember this?), and the club is mocked relentlessly around Major League Baseball for thinking the guy could ever have been a non-terrible option in the first place.
Knowing that, why am I even writing an article about Bartolo Colon in the first place?
Actually ... he might not be as terrible of an option as you'd imagine at first glance.