Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of the game.Call it Club 162, a victory for every game of a regular season, spread out across a pitcher’s career. It’s a level Gerrit Cole will reach with three more wins, and it would not be notable except for one curious fact:No pitcher drafted first overall has ever done it. The draft has been conducted annually since 1965, and the most wins by any top pick is 161, by Mike Moore. Cole will soon have a record he didn’t even know about.“That’s wild,” Cole said this week, by his locker in the home clubhouse at Yankee Stadium. “That’s wild. That’s kinda neat, I’ve got to be honest.”Cole, who turns 36 next month, has won his last three starts to push his career record to 159-85. The first overall choice out of UCLA by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2011, Cole has a keen grasp of baseball history but was unfamiliar with Moore.That’s understandable, because Moore’s best seasons came before Cole was born. Chosen first overall from Oral Roberts University by the Mariners in 1981, Moore went 161-176 in a 14-year career with Seattle, Oakland and the Detroit Tigers.“Sometimes I tell these kids: ‘You know, I was the original Stephen Strasburg. I was the first right-handed pitcher ever drafted No. 1,’” Moore told The New York Times a few years ago, when he was coaching at a high school in Oklahoma. “And they’re like: ‘Oh, I kind of understand. Maybe you were good.’”Moore was often very good. Like a lot of No. 1 picks in the 1970s and ’80s, he was solid — once an All-Star, sometimes an ace, but more often a No. 2 or 3. Think Floyd Bannister, Tim Belcher, Andy Benes or Ben McDonald, college arms with a short learning curve who reached the majors quickly.“They probably just figured they have the highest floor,” Cole said, astutely. “There’s two ways you pick pitchers. One, you feel like they have a high floor. Two, you feel like they have a ceiling you can’t pass up. Guys like that would have been Josh Beckett, and I don’t even think Josh Beckett went 1-1.”Cole assumed that Beckett, who was drafted out of high school and went second overall (1-2, that is) after outfielder Josh Hamilton in 1999, was part of Club 162. He was not — despite postseason brilliance for the Florida Marlins and Boston Red Sox, Beckett finished only 138-106.“Well, how about that?” Cole said.Sixty-six drafted pitchers have collected at least 162 victories, including 20 taken in the first round, from Justin Verlander and Bill Gullickson at No. 2 to Adam Wainwright at No. 29. The draft now lasts only 20 rounds, and seven pitchers in Club 162 were taken in rounds that no longer exist, including Andy Pettitte and John Smoltz (22nd round), Roy Oswalt (25th), Mark Buehrle (38th) and more.For many years, it was basically guaranteed that some team, somewhere, would find a pitcher who would last long enough to join the club. Each of the first 15 drafts included one, and after a fallow year (1980), the next four drafts produced 14 more — Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Al Leiter and so on.Somehow, though, all 19 pitchers chosen first overall have finished with fewer than 162 victories. Two (Brien Taylor and Brady Aiken) never reached the majors. One, Mark Appel, never earned a win. Another, Bryan Bullington, went 1-9.