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a policy made to be broken. I guess the questions are what is the relative degree of interest in Fielder now as opposed to Pujols when they first insisted that policy applied, how much did their hopes of landing Darvish dim their interest in both Pujols and Fielder, and now that they have failed to land Darvish, have the new circumstances and a ton of now freed-up uncommitted cash changed their calculations and their policy.
The answers to these questions may prove to be decisive in what looks to have become a Fielder match race rather than a Fielder sweepstakes. With Texas' winning Darvish, it appears the only remaining AL teams bidding for Prince's services are Toronto and Seattle.
Boy, I think Grumpy has hit the nail on the head. Heading into the offseason we had hoped that a Fielder signing would vault us back at least into the discussion of contention. Now it looks like signing Fielder might merely avert becoming totally irrelevant.