At 37, an age when most catchers are winding down, Carlton Fisk set career highs with 37 home runs and 107 RBI. He also caught all 162 games and stole 13 bases for the 1985 White Sox.

Across 1999 and 2000, Pedro Martinez went 41 and 10 with a 1.90 ERA and 597 strikeouts. Two seasons that read like a video game on the hardest setting.

Jim Edmonds hit 393 home runs, won eight Gold Gloves, and produced 60.4 Baseball-Reference WAR. He got 2.5 percent of the Hall of Fame vote in 2016 and fell off the ballot after one year.

Nolan Ryan was 40 years old in 1987 and had the best ERA in the National League, 2.76, with a major league high 270 strikeouts. His record was 8 and 16. Houston scored 27 runs total in his 16 losses. He tied for fifth in the Cy Young vote. He retired with 5,714 strikeouts, 324 wins, seven no hitters and zero Cy Youngs. The closest he ever came was 1973, when Jim Palmer beat him out. Who deserved a Cy Young most on this list?

Larry Walker hit .366 with 49 home runs in 1997, and the easy move is to credit Coors Field. Except 29 of those homers came on the road, nine more than he hit at home, and he batted .346 away from Denver. He also stole 33 bases and won a Gold Glove in right. That summer in the All Star Game, after Randy Johnson threw one over his head, Walker flipped his helmet around backwards and stood in right handed for a pitch. Then he went back to the left side and drew a walk. He won the NL MVP, the first Canadian ever to do it.