Tigers ‘Heavyweight’ Deal May Benefit Royals

I received several texts, emails and phone calls in the days following the Tigers’ signing of Prince Fielder. The messages varied, but the tone was always the same: “Now we have to go sign Roy Oswalt, there’s no way we can compete without him.” “Now we have no reason to sign Oswalt, we can’t compete this year, period.” “Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera in the same lineup? In the AL Central? This sucks.” Yeah, well imagine you are a Royals fan that wrote this last week. Then you read that all signs point to Oswalt signing with the Cardinals. The Cardinals? Did anyone tell him that Dave Duncan left? Anyway, there was only one person that could wake me from this nightmare of the week… you guessed it, the Kool Aid Drinker. See, the Kool Aid Drinker thinks the Fielder signing was great for the Royals. $214 million for a 275 lb first baseman that had his career high in HRs 5 years ago and his career high in RBI 3 years ago? Awesome! Prince will have 1000 games on those knees after the t...