TAMPA, Fla. — Major League Baseball's investigations team intends to meet with Alex Rodriguez sometime between Wednesday and Friday to discuss his recent confessions of illegal performance-enhancing drug use, a person familiar with the situation told Newsday.

A-Rod will leave shortly for Jupiter, Fla., where he'll work out with Team Dominican Republic for the World Baseball Classic. Baseball officials want to get together with Rodriguez before he begins his WBC preparations.

For all of Bud Selig's threats of discipline against the Yankees' third baseman, there's virtually no chance of that happening. A-Rod likely will bring both a personal attorney — he just hired Jay Reisinger, who has represented Andy Pettitte and Sammy Sosa — and a players association lawyer with him, and the only questions Rodriguez will be compelled to answer are whether he procured illegal PEDs on MLB grounds — the clubhouse, for instance, or the team plane.

Since Sports Illustrated reported his positive result from the 2003 survey testing, Rodriguez has offered one story to ESPN's Peter Gammons and a second to a group of media. He won't have to offer a third version, as long as he is properly represented.

Meanwhile, Don Fehr, the head of the players association, said he disagrees with his constituents who have advocated releasing the names of A-Rod's fellow 103 positive testers from the 2003 survey.

"The agreement we had was that information related to 2003 was supposed to be and should remain confidential," Fehr told reporters Monday after meeting with the Marlins in Jupiter, "and we believe it should."

High-profile players Curt Schilling and Brad Lidge have said that all of the names should be released from the 2003 survey tests so that all players aren't smeared by the questioning about it.

"If that's the judgment, it seems to me that is entirely wrong," Fehr said. "We know what happened in 2003. The number of positives we had was slightly over 5 percent. That means that slightly over 94 percent was negative."

Responding to Selig's comments that A-Rod "shamed the game" with his confession, Fehr said, "The commissioner is entitled to say whatever the commissioner wants to say. Everybody understands that there were things which happened in the early part of the decade which we wish hadn't, that that's not the case anymore. We fixed the problem and we need to look forward, as Bud has said many times."