End Of The Line: Alex Rodriguez

End Of The Line is an occasional offseason series that will take a closer look at the career of DMBL players leaving the league after the 2016 season.

Colon notches 100th career win

Bartolo Colon became the 26th pitcher to earn 100 career wins after earning a victory Friday night against Hoboken. Colon went 6 innings, giving up 2 runs and striking out 5 to beat the Cutters, 6-2.

Now in his 12th season, Colon ranks 25th all-time in wins, tied with Barry Zito and one win away from matching Brad Radke at 101.

Colon is enjoying a resurgent season this year, standing at 5-1 with 3.48 ERA in eight starts for Livingston. Earlier this year, he passed David Wells for 15th all-time in career starts, with 320, and is just two behind Roy Oswalt for No. 14 (322). He's also 26 innings away from reaching 2,000 career innings, a mark only 15 other pitchers have eclipsed.

Colon enjoyed eight straight seasons of at least 31 starts for the Hillsborough/Vatican City/Wanaque franchise  but surprisingly only one winning season, 13-7 in 2006. His best season might be considered 2003 when he went 16-16, 3.61 ERA, with 12 complete games and 4 shutouts. He experienced double-digit losses in seven straight years, including another 16 games in 2005 and a career-high 19 in 2004. He entered the 2014 campaign 7th all-time in losses, with 130.

After 2006, Colon took some time off from the DMBL to get his head right and eat some Krispy Kreme, returning in 2012 as a supplemental pick by Blue Ridge.

Delgado calls it quits, but will he get the call?

Carlos Delgado announced his retirement from baseball last week after trying to come back from a hip injury that kept him out of the DMBL last season.

A native of Puerto Rico, Delgado last appeared in the DMBL in 2009 with the Carolina Mudcats, which means he'd be eligible for the DMBL Hall of Fame beginning in 2014. The 38-year-old could make a compelling case for enshrinement, ranking among the all-time leaders in home runs and runs scored. Only 11 players have appeared in more DMBL games.

Delgado played 14 consecutive seasons, breaking in with the Norfolk Ewes in 1997. The converted catcher played in no fewer than 128 games from 1997 until 2007. He played for five different franchises  in the DMBL, mostly with the Hillsborough (two different franchises, the Destroyers and Hit Men), though he won his only Kevin Mitchell Award in 2001 with the Vatican City Cardinals when he put career highs with a monster season: .345/.455/.653, 208 hits, 41 home runs, 138 RBIs, 59 doubles, 153 runs, 122 walks. He matched his career high in home runs the previous year when he was with Hillsborough, and hit 39 homers when Vatican City relocated to Wanaque in 2002.

Taken in the second supplemental round in 2008 by Sardine City but released before the start of the season, Delgado signed later that year with Carolina. He contributed somewhat to the Mudcats that year, appearing in 25 games, but had one more season in him. In 2009, he had 34 home runs and 98 RBIs (to put him over 1,000 for his career, only the 22nd player to do so) while batting .280 and slugging .502.

A look at Delgado's career stats, with all-time ranking in parentheses -- do they read "Hall of Fame"?

Games: 1,701 (12th)
Batting: .265
OBP: .355
SLG: .516 (17th)
OPS: .871
AB: 6,035 (28th)
H: 1,597 (35th)
2B: 361 (20th, tied with Ray Durham)
HR: 370 (16th, recently passed by Albert Pujols)
RBI:  1.075 (21st)
Runs: 1,027 (11th, soon to be passed by Pujols)
Strikeouts: 1,571 (10th)
Walks: 844 (18th)