Mets' Bartolo Colon: May not be a priority for Mets

Re-signing Colon may be a backburner item for GM Sandy Alderson, who may be comfortable with the Mets' starting rotation depth, Joel Sherman of the NY Post reports.

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Colon, who led the Mets in wins the past two season, has expressed some interest in returning to the Orange and Blue. But with Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Zack Wheeler, Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo in Queens, Alderson may feel he has enough depth. However, with deGrom. Harvey and Matz all returning from arm surgery, Wheeler having missed all of 2016 coming back from Tommy John surgery and Syndergaard pitching through bone spurs in his elbow last season, that depth is somewhat up in the air. Colon will pitch somewhere in 2017, but it remains to be seen if it will be back with the Mets.