A Brief and Scary Thought About the AL West

Now that Yu Darvish has found a home in Texas and Albert Pujols is settling in Orange County, the next major name on the list to find a home is Prince Fielder. A couple weeks ago when I wrote that the Seattle Mariners would likely not be in on the Fielder sweepstakes, I was apparently misinformed (or perhaps did little to no research). If the Mariners sign Fielder the AL West will be scary. And also fucking entertaining.

I feel bad for the A's, though, they're looking almost as irrelevant as the Houston Astros...

The Pujols-Wilson-Fielder Fallout

So in case you hadn't heard, Albert Pujols signed with the Los Angeles Angels. As of last night, it looked like he was headed back to the Cardinals, so I was a little bit surprised. Apparently it was a 10 year deal worth about $250 million dollars. My first reaction was, this is a great deal for Albert Pujols. He got paid big time and on top of that, it's an AL team. At some point he's going to be a liability on defense, so he can easily make the transition to DH instead of being a human pylon at 1st base halfway through his contract in the NL.

It was also announced that the Angels signed CJ Wilson today. So basically, this means that in order to stay competitive in the AL West(at least in the short term) the Texas Rangers HAVE to sign Prince Fielder. If he goes to another team, than Texas can kiss their World Series hopes good bye...