Who Needs Prince Fielder?

Who Needs Prince Fielder: Going into the off-peak, the basic architectural plan of the Texas Rangers was simply to do their better to retain the armed service* of free agent C.J. Alexander Wilson and continue to harvest the does good from single of the best farm systems of rules in baseball game. A simple-minded, straightforward architectural plan for a team up that won 186 secret plan* and made 2 World serial publication appearings in the cobbler's last 2 years. A plan now shattered gives thanks to the off-peak bonanza of the Los Angeles Angel Falls*.

The angels shocked baseball not only bringing in a top free agent, but the batsman top and top pitcher available in the market. Albert Pujols is already essentially a circle inside the Hall of fame, an aging one but still with plenty in his tank and Wilson is a starter without a lot of mileage on his arm that would have supported for Cy Young in the majority, that is, one without the 2011 version of Justin Verlander.

Not only did the Angels add a bunch of wins a team on the cusp of the playoffs, but Wilson's signature, they also got to take vince directly from Rangers, their main rival to the West. Four wins in addition to your bottom line are always valuable, but arrive to take them directly from your biggest competitor is just the icing on top. Rangers ' replacements for Wilson are better pitchers than Wilson replaces in Anaheim, but is still a further loss.

In other words, Rangers ' grip on the Division is in trouble, but there is a man who can strengthen it: Prince Fielder. I calculated playoff odds 2012 each team with and without the first base of slugging free-agent, and no team is going to earn more by signing him to Texas.