Since the launch of the popular image-sharing and lifestyle-faking social-media site Instagram in 2010, eager influencers and fawning followers alike have anxiously awaited the day longtime MLB pitcher Bartolo Colón would finally leverage his brand by getting on there and posting some workout videos and photos of himself hanging out at home.
The wait is over. Bartolo Colón is finally on Instagram. A verified account attributed to the 46-year-old righty made its first post on June 18. After the years-long and unexplained delay of his arrival to the platform, Colón now appears hellbent on making up for lost time. On Wednesday morning, just two weeks after joining the site, Bartolo Colón made his 45th Instagram post.
Colón’s Instagram subject matter ranges from the mundane, as above, to the spectacular, as in this photo of Bartolo Colón at the Aguas Blancas waterfall in the Dominican Republic:
One truly awesome transmission reveals Colón’s creative side, showing game balls he decorated himself — his “favorite hobby,” per the post — after wins. The Colôn Ball is this century’s answer to the Fabergé egg.
There’s also this:
Colón had a rough year for the Texas Rangers in 2018, but he has said he hoped to pitch in 2019 and is currently a free agent. From the looks of it, he’s keeping in shape quite triumphantly:
We’re coming up on the part of the season when teams need to think about how they’ll limit innings for young starters, and Bartolo Colón is out there, Instagramming.
