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It's not the end of the world; starting pitching is the strength of the organization, esp. in the high minors. Darvish would have been a nice add, but we really need bats obviously.
Even if we miss out on Fielder (maybe not a bad thing?... it concerns me a little that 29 other teams seem uninterested in his services), that does not perclude filling holes through the trade market.
We just can't make anymore Fister-like underwhelming trades, and a lot of things have to go right.  The good news is that we could have multiple aces in our rotation next year (Felix, Pineda, Paxton, Hultzen with more on the way shortly in Walker and Campos and possible surprises like Snow). 
Vargas is solid, and may be better post "twist"... maybe even a Bedard-light (I said a lot would have to go right, didn't I?).  We have another high draft choice coming up, which will give us some flexability to trade some of our current shiny prospects for lineup help if necessary.  We can renegotiate our TV deal in 2015. 
We will have to look at other options like Ackley to CF so Seager can play his natural position at 2B to open up 3B for a bat or bringing in a LFer with Carp to DH.  A perverse effect of having so many holes is that there's lots of options to upgrade the offense.