This season, we've really celebrated youth. 2015 is the year of the prospect, and we can't help getting excited by players who were born so recently they'd probably think a VHS was an artisanal tape dispenser.

But that shouldn't stop us from paying attention to the veterans. During Tuesday night's Giants-D-backs game, Tim Hudson, 40-year-old pitcher who has defeated every team in MLB, hit his fourth career home run:

According to SportsNet, he's ending a bit of a drought for pitchers of a certain age:

#SFGiants Tim Hudson becomes the first 40-year old pitcher to hit a Home Run since Woody Williams on May 15, 2007 - Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) September 9, 2015

But he's not the oldest pitcher to hit a home run. Jack Quinn, a righty who played from 1909-33, homered for the Philadelphia Athletics when he was 46.

But who do you think is going to be, and this is a completely random number here, the first 42-year-old pitcher to hit a home run? Now that LaTroy Hawkins plays for an AL team, it seems unlikely that it'll be him. That means …

In anticipation, we re-christen this the Year of the Veteran.