1
depressingly agreed.
I don't see a lot of viable ways the Mariners can contend in the next three years without Fielder or someone as valuable...and the someone as valuable, if it's not Fielder, will cost us a huge chunk of the supporting players we were going to use to flank him. It's a heck of a lot harder to build a winner by trading prospects for prospects or trading for good players from teams who, for whatever reason, no longer want those good players (that's usually a bad sign about the supposedly good player). I don't think it can really be done.