In evaluating players for this article, I immediately see a stark difference between the
years of 1973 to 1985 and the next ten. In the decade of 1986 to 1995, you can see the difference that the emerging free agent market has had. Players began changing teams at much younger ages. The acquisitions between 1973 and 1985, by and large, were failures. Most of the acquisitions between 1986 and 1995 still had some tred left on their tires and a few made significant contributions in their tenure with Kansas City. The second major difference is that in the ’73-’85 period the flow of aging free agents was a trickle.