By Buster Olney

Saturday, March 7, 2009

The economy T-boned the free-agent market this winter, seemingly at 100 mph, and this was the major reason why established players -- guys who had been putting up numbers for years -- were getting one- and two-year offers rather than offers of three or four years. But there has been another underlying factor in play, illuminated by Alex Rodriguez's circumstances: Major league executives are taking a very different look at age in this time of more stringent drug testing. Thirty-two years old is ...

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