SUPER CINCO: LatinoBaseball’s Top 5 wins leaders, career

Here are the top five Latino pitchers with the most lifetime wins:

1. BARTOLO COLON, 247 wins

He may be built like a beer-league softball player who spent too much time tapping the keg, but looks were definitely deceiving when it came to the popular righty affectionately known as “Big Sexy.” The Dominican Republic native won 247 games over a 21-year career with 11 different teams — good for No. 1 on the all-time list for Latino hurlers.

2. DENNIS MARTINEZ, 245 wins

He was never included among the elite pitchers of his day, but Dennis Martinez wrapped up a solid 23-career in 1998 as the winningest Latin American-born pitcher in MLB history with 245 wins. The Nicaragua-born righty held the record for 10 years until Bartolo Colon passed him in 2008.

3. JUAN MARICHAL, 243 wins

When Juan Marichal retired in 1975 after 16 seasons — 14 of them with the San Francisco Giants — it was as the winningest Latino pitcher in MLB history, with 243 wins, a 2.89 ERA and six 20-win seasons. It was more than enough to get him into the Hall of Fame in 1983, making him the first Dominican-born player to grace a plaque.

4. LUIS TIANT, 229 wins

He was already the winningest pitcher from Cuba in MLB history when Luis Tiant retired after 1982 with 229 wins — and a legacy as one of the most outsized personalities in baseball history thanks to his fun-loving nature and funky pitching delivery.

5. PEDRO MARTINEZ, 219 wins

He was a 20-game winner only twice, retired at a relatively young 37 and didn’t win more than nine games in each of his last four seasons. Yet Martinez enjoyed a Hall of Fame career that included 219 wins (against 100 losses for a spectacular .687 winning percentage), a 2.93 ERA and three Cy Youngs.