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05-11-2011, 03:30 PM
Experimental medicine practiced in Santiago is the explanation for 37-year old Yankees pitcher Bartolo Colon's return to sports headlines, reports Diario Libre. Reporters for the newspaper say Colon underwent stem cell therapy with physicians Sergio Guzman and Leonel Liriano of the Union Medica in Santiago. The therapy has restored strength to his arm as was evidenced by the eight innings he pitched to defeat the Chicago White Sox 3-1 on 27 April.
Colon was due to pitch in the Minor Leagues but had such a strong camp that he made the Yankees team as a long reliever, filling in for All-Star Phil Hughes.
Bartolo Colon is best known for winning the American League Cy Young Award with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2005. That year he went 21-8 with a 3.48 ERA and became the first Angels pitcher to win the Cy Young Award since 1964. In his career, Colon was a two-time All Star, winning 153 games over a 13-year career that saw him pitch for five teams, including the Chicago White Sox last year until he was plagued by injuries and lowered to the Minor Leagues in 2009.
Diario Libre reports that the doctors extracted bone marrow and adipose tissue from the pelvis that was then processed in a centrifuge and placed in his shoulder tissues.
To read about the now famous 27 April game in which he pitched eight innings for the New York Yankees to defeat the White Sox 3-1.
The physicians told Diario Libre if pitcher Pedro Martinez submits to the therapy, he too could return to be effective in Major League Baseball.
Read more: www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Guillen-tossed-White-Sox-stymied-by-Bartolo-Colon-1355929.php#ixzz1M2we2gLF (http://www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Guillen-tossed-White-Sox-stymied-by-Bartolo-Colon-1355929.php#ixzz1M2we2gLF)
www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Guillen-tossed-White-Sox-stymied-by-Bartolo-Colon-1355929.php (http://www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Guillen-tossed-White-Sox-stymied-by-Bartolo-Colon-1355929.php)
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Colon was due to pitch in the Minor Leagues but had such a strong camp that he made the Yankees team as a long reliever, filling in for All-Star Phil Hughes.
Bartolo Colon is best known for winning the American League Cy Young Award with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2005. That year he went 21-8 with a 3.48 ERA and became the first Angels pitcher to win the Cy Young Award since 1964. In his career, Colon was a two-time All Star, winning 153 games over a 13-year career that saw him pitch for five teams, including the Chicago White Sox last year until he was plagued by injuries and lowered to the Minor Leagues in 2009.
Diario Libre reports that the doctors extracted bone marrow and adipose tissue from the pelvis that was then processed in a centrifuge and placed in his shoulder tissues.
To read about the now famous 27 April game in which he pitched eight innings for the New York Yankees to defeat the White Sox 3-1.
The physicians told Diario Libre if pitcher Pedro Martinez submits to the therapy, he too could return to be effective in Major League Baseball.
Read more: www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Guillen-tossed-White-Sox-stymied-by-Bartolo-Colon-1355929.php#ixzz1M2we2gLF (http://www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Guillen-tossed-White-Sox-stymied-by-Bartolo-Colon-1355929.php#ixzz1M2we2gLF)
www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Guillen-tossed-White-Sox-stymied-by-Bartolo-Colon-1355929.php (http://www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Guillen-tossed-White-Sox-stymied-by-Bartolo-Colon-1355929.php)
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