Sure, Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, and Noah Syndergaard are actually better, under the word’s traditional definition. But when you watch him play, there is nobody in baseball that’s better than Bartolo Colon.
Watch Colon casually flip a ball behind his back to make a play at first base.
Who is more fun to watch than Bartolo Colon? If anybody deserves a World Series win, it’s him. Long live Bartolo Colon.
Prediction: Bartolo Colon in 4.
Ben Weinrib: Let’s review the highlights of my preseason predictions:
Royals: With no anchors in the rotation and a collection of question marks in the lineup, the Royals still have the potential to be a contending team, but they’ve taken several major steps back… maybe the Royals didn’t think last year’s team was good enough to win a World Series in the first place.