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But is DH really that easy to fill?
I mean, sure it's easy to find the talent out there. But the really good guys, not really. No one ever wants to play it, those who are forced to typically have depressed stats, it's rare and far between finding a Kung-Fu Panda who wants to really play DH and you usually end up with either damaged goods or old guys.
If it were so easy, the Edgar Martinez DH Award shouldn't be worth that much, but there's been like 3 off-the-wall-good DHs the last decade, and one of them has the award named after them. This year's best full-time DH was Hideki Matsui, necessitated by bad knees.
Most teams have moved to using the DH as a musical chair, but to do that, you basically have to be overtalented at multiple positions. The M's are clearly in this mold for next year, but resigning the Griffey/Sweeney pair probably doesn't hurt the M's as much as everyone is complaining.