Tom Verducci: Why aging players find limited market for declining skills

By Yo
for Riotboard.com

Published: February 9, 2010

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With less than two weeks remaining before camps open, the free-agent market seems tapped out. Nothing much left, shoppers — nothing much except two batting champions, two Cy Young Award winners, a stolen base champion, a guy chasing 500 home runs and two others with career batting averages better than .290. There is one common denominator for Nomar Garciaparra, Gary Sheffield, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, Johnny Damon, Carlos Delgado, Garrett Anderson and Mike Sweeney, other than their unemployment status: they’re all on the wrong side of their 36th birthday.
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