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Some big names who have changed teams recently
 
2009 - Teixeira
2009 - Dunn
2010 - Holliday
2010 - Granderson
2010 - Beltre
2011 - Werth
2011 - Dunn
2011 - AGON
2011 - Crawford
2011 - Beltre
2012 - Fielder (pending)
2012 - Pujols (pending)
2012 - Reyes (pending)
Part of my dismissal in regards to Fielder being a "You Must Call in the Next 5 Minutes or You're Doomed!" offer ... is that I recall precisely the same rhetoric being espoused about how much we needed to go after Teixeira when HE was on the market back in 2009.  He's under 30.  He's a subperb bat.  Guys like this don't come along every day.
Heck, at that time the club didn't have any obvious 1B talent - so the bulk of my argument against Tex was that he had already peaked and that his production was going to drop a LOT faster than most people expected.  (Just fyi, Tex this season posted a 2.4 WAR (101st in baseball), which put him slightly behind Ackley (2.5 WAR in his 376 PAs), and even further behind Brendan Ryan (2.8 WAR - leading the Ms, but ranking 82nd on the WAR-O-Meter).
I'm sorry, but it's a real hard sell for me that another Fielder isn't on the horizon when Tex moved in '09, Holliday moved in '10, AGON moved in '11 and Fielder is moving in '12. 
The argument that there won't be a 5-WAR player that is a good fit for Seattle's needs a year from now ... that I can buy.  Then again, part of my argument with Fielder is that he isn't a good fit for Seattle now.