Michael Young, the anti-A-Rod, getting another well-deserved honor

He is a free agent now, looking for work -- don't believe that retirement talk, Young wants to play -- and he could still be an asset at the right price. The

Kostya Kennedy | Jan 21, 2014

Michael Young, the anti-A-Rod, getting another well-deserved honor /

Michael Young (left), who will be honored by the B.A.T. on Tuesday, has kept a far lower-profile than fellow perennial All-Star and one-time teammate Alex Rodriguez / AP

He is a free agent now, looking for work -- don't believe that retirement talk, Young wants to play -- and he could still be an asset at the right price. The Dodgers need infield help and Young's old Rangers need another righty bat. Maybe the Orioles could use him. Maybe the Red Sox. And oh yes, of course, let's not forget that the Yankees have an opening at third.

Published Jan 21, 2014

KOSTYA KENNEDY

Kostya Kennedy, a senior editor for Sports Illustrated, joined the magazine in 1994 and writes on a range of topics for the magazine and SI.com. He covered hockey as a writer for many years and edited Sports Illustrated's The Hockey Book (2010). He has written often on baseball and he edited the magazine's Scorecard section. Kennedy's journalism experience includes time as a staff writer at Newsday. He was news editor at The Queens Tribune in New York City and he has written for The New York Times and The New Yorker among other publications. Kennedy received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and earned an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded a Pulitzer Fellowship. He has taught journalism at Columbia and at New York University.