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Bartolo Colon stiffed doctors on career-saving treatment: suit

“Big Sexy” is a big deadbeat, a lawsuit charges.

Two doctors who claim they resurrected former major league hurler Bartolo Colon’s career said they were never paid — and are suing him for $4.5 million, 10 percent of what he earned since the 2010 procedure.

Doctors Leonel Liriano and Sergio Guzman are suing the ex-major leaguer in the Dominican Republic, where they said their experimental stem cell treatment gave Colon’s right arm new life, according to a report in the Spanish-language Diario Libre.

The doctors said in court papers that they told Colon the procedure would be free of charge — if it didn’t work.