Óliver Pérez

Any guesses?

If my math is correct, Oliver Perez?

Oliver Perez is not the answer.

The answer is Jonathan Neese.

Oh.

Any guesses?

If my math is correct, Oliver Perez...

Oliver Perez is not the answer.

The answer is Jonathan Neese.

And Jonathan Neese ended up throwing 1,000 innings for the New York Mets, made 179 starts, and pitched to a 399 ERA.

He had a career ERA of 4.31.

Oliver Perez? No.

No.

He was a lefty, though.

[laughs]

It's hard to-

Did you guess Oliver Perez?

I did.

And it was like, "Good luck getting that.

Here's the number of total pitchers who have ever done that at 36." And it's like, well, what's the total number of pitchers who have done it at 35? And how many of them did it at 36? 'Cause it, it doesn't real- I, I don't care that Oliver Perez wasn't a good starting pitcher when he was 36, you know? Like I, that, that doesn't matter to me.

What matters is how, like, like I said, with Chris Sale, h- h- how these old guys, like, sorry, Hall of Famers tend to have different aging curves generally, and then aging curves tend to be slower in the immediate future.

So if you haven't seen the signs of decline, they'll come eventually, but as long as you're getting a discount on the face value, you should always take it with those, with those older guys.

I remember the Mets were forced to do that in 2006 when Dwaner Sanchez got hurt.

They had to trade Xavier Nady in a deal with Roberto Hernandez and Oliver Perez.

I just, I don't love it.

Like give up a single layer reliever.