Our annual look at the oldest players still plying their trade in the league, with a couple of particularly heartbreaking entries for Sounders supporters.
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
-- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T.S. Eliot)
Now in our fourth season, the Retirement Watch highlights the oldest active players in our favorite retirement league, checking in on those who every winter are faced with the decision to hang up their cleats or give it one more season.
The number of players 35 or older who've been tracked in the retirement watch over the last four years — 2012: 25, 2013: 22, 2014: 15, 2015: 15.