Playboy's 2009 Baseball Preview

May, 2009

PLAYBOY'S Baseball PREVIEW 2009UNLESS YOU PLAY IN THE BRONX. THE DAYS OF BUILDING A TEAM WITH FREE AGENTS ARE GONE. TEAMS NOW HAVE TO REY ON HOMEGROWN TALENT-AND KEEPING THAT TALENT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERaseball is a kid's game. And the adult kids who play the game are getting younger. Maybe it's the end of the era of performance-enhancing drugs, or maybe it's a cost-control device, but teams are relying more on young, homegrown talent. The average age of a major league player declined more...