Cy Young Contender: Bartolo Colon

You may laugh at me as you read this blog, as I write about how I think that Bartolo Colon is once more a Cy Young contender, but I feel as though Bartolo is back in business. The two time All-Star and Cy Young winner has gone through a career that has had the highest of pinnacles to the lowest troughs. Now, he is back on the rise in Oakland and has a somewhat viable offense to back him up. But after being with Yankees last year, you would have thought that Colon would have won more games, give him a break! He was coming back from a year plagued with surgeries repairing his torn rotator cuff and many other shoulder problems. Now Colon is 3-1 with the A's and gave a great performance in Japan against the Mariners. His one loss is when pitching against "King" Felix Hernandez, but I would just like to think that Colon was still jet-lagged from the flight back from Japan. In his second start in the US, Colon faced Hernandez again, and then beat the pants off him only giving up 3 hits and 1 walk in 7 innings pitched. But last night's game could have been Colon's hardest outing, but he went out with his best stuff, blanking the Angels to only 4 hits in 8 innings pitched. Bartolo was pitching against Ervin Santana, who entered the day with 13 wins and a 2.00 ERA in 23 career games (21 starts) against the A's. So the Athletics were in a position where it didn't look good, but Colon looked past the numbers and threw 82 strikes, with 38 in a row! Bartolo Colon threw strikes from the first pitch in the 5th inning into the 8thing inning. Throwing strikes against a lineup that is full of powerful hitters means nothing to Colon, he was unfazed. He also did all of this under the team in which he won his 1st and only Cy Young award with, the Angels. Another story developing with the Bartolo Colon triumph is the power behind the bat of Yoenis Cespedes, who hit his 4th homerun of the season to give the A's an early 3-0 lead. As of right now, Colon has a 2.63 ER, a WHIP of 0.80, leads the MLB in innings pitched with 27 1/3 innings, and ties Roy Halladay in MLB with 3 wins. I really think he can pull through for another Cy Young award if he keeps up this pace, what do you think?