Miguel Tejada, who not only was figured to have taken steroids just after the Astros acquired him, is now coming out with another bomb shell: He’s not really 31. He’s 33. It doesn’t make much of a difference in real life, but in the baseball world — in the athletic world — it’s a world of difference.

The Houston Astros shortstop told the Oakland Athletics when he was signed out of the Dominican Republic in 1993 that he was 17. But he was actually 19, meaning he is now 33, two years older than his listed age in the Astros’ media guide and other baseball records.

“I’m a poor kid that wanted to sign,” Tejada told the Houston Chronicle about how he followed a coach’s advice in shaving two years off his age. “I’m feeling free now. It’s something that I had in my mind.”

Imagine: A world where Dominican/Cuban/Whatever players lie about their age to get more money from an unsuspecting team. Next thing you know NBA refs will be betting on their own games. . .