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I made 5 different points, and you picked out a single one and ignored all the rest. Come on.
Let me make it easy for you:
1. There aren't any elite hitters available after next season so your "wait until next year to sign a star" strategy is already clearly off the mark
2. Even if there was a star hitter available next year, he's not likely to be the PERFECT fit you think is the only type the team should acquire
3. Even if there was a star hitter available next year, there will be other teams fighting to get him so the M's can not at this time act as if he's already in the bag
4. This team is missing out on millions of dollars in revenues because of its poor play and the longer it goes on the worse it gets and the harder it will be to turn things around
Can you please respond to those points?
As for the Phillies, I brought them up because they did not pursure your philosophy of only spending huge bucks on a single player when they knew EXACTLY what they needed. They grabbed a guy who could help them right away without fretting over whether or not he was "perfect" for them. Doing so paid off handsomely with the team going from a Pythag 79-win performance to a Pythag 90-win performance. They also saw over 640,000 more fans pay to watch them play, a whopping 40% increase in attendance. His entire salary that year was paid for by the increased ticket sales alone! And when they had another young stud first baseman come along who was blocked by Thome, they dealt with it at that point and kept on winning.
If in two years the M's are in the terrible position of having both Smoak and Fielder performing great and another slugger tearing up Triple-A, they can deal with the "problem" at that time. Similarly, if in 2013 the team needs a center fielder, the org can worry about the issue then. To not fill a hole now because another hole might pop up is self-defeating, especially when waiting to fix the team means you'll have less money to go around.