Find me a Contract!

If you're a free agent, tell you your agent to hurry up and find you a contract.

Because according to a Boston Globe report, of the 160 free agents, 11 are named in the Mitchell Report. The names being named could have a lot of ramifications, but one thing it won't result in is those free agents signing monster deals as if nothing ever happened.

Regardless of what the general managers are saying -- that a name on the list won't factor into their decision on whether to sign that player -- the reality of the matter is that the Mitchell Report has a great deal of significance to the future of the sport.

No one wants a tainted player, at least not for that price.

Looking over the list of free agents, there's one slam dunk to be on the list; Jose Guillen has already been implicated in separate reports. If Guillen is a slam dunk, we'll call Barry Bonds a layup.

That leaves plenty of room on Mitchell's "roster" for guys like Eric Gagne, Luis Gonzalez, Andruw Jones, and even -- gasp! -- A-Rod. I am by no means pointing fingers, I'm just saying that the next couple of weeks could be very interesting.

The bottom line here is that I expect new contracts to be deflated from what they have been in recent years, which seems appropriate given all of the steroid inflation since the early 2000s.

So if you're a free agent, and you think you're name could be on that list, I'd recommend getting a deal done as soon as possible.

For more on the Mitchell Report and current Free Agents...
11 Free Agents spoke in probe (ESPN.com)
Free Agents Rushing to Sign Deals before Mitchell Report comes out (The Brushback)
Anticipating Backlash from the Mitchell Report (All on the Field)
List of Free Agents (ESPN.com)