Oliver Perez won his arbitration hearing against the Mets yesterday, and will earn $6.5 million this year rather than the 4.725 million proposed by the Mets. Score another win for Perez's agent Scott Boras who has a little experience in contract disputes.

Perez was the first Met to go to arbitration since David Cone did so in 1992, since then the Mets have signed all other arbitration players to contract extensions thus avoiding arbitration.

Unless the Mets sign Perez to an extension during the season, he will likely become a free agent after 2008, and multiple reports last week indicated that Scott Boras has every intention of getting Perez out on the free agent market.

Hopefully this whole process won't deter Perez from signing a long term deal with the Mets, regardless of what Boras wants him to to. Now that the drama is over, lets get down to baseball.