33: According to the baseball oracle known as Bill James, “more players — and especially more GREAT players — find 33 to be their most punishing season, the year that long fly balls stop leaving the park, the year that groundballs stop rolling through the infield, the year the bat feels heavy in July and August.” And this is why the stat geeks love James: A-Rod, Soriano, Ortiz, Renteria, Berkman, and Byrnes, to name a few, are all 33, and all struggling mightily this season. James goes on to point out a ton of Hall of Famers who tanked at the age of 33. [SI]