Fielder, 27, hit .299, with 38 home runs, and 120 RBI last season with the Milwaukee Brewers, but was never a strong threat to return to Milwaukee, as he and his mega-agent Scott Boras was going to take the highest offer on the market.
Fielder joins a Detroit Tiger team that was coming off a season in which they advanced to the American League Championship Series behind MVP and Cy Young Justin Verlander and the bats of first baseman Miguel Cabrera and DH Victor Martinez. Martinez was lost for the 2012 season with a torn ACL last week, so Fielder is great replacement for him in the short term. However, long term, this contract, the fourth largest in baseball history, is still insane money, and has little chance of paying off, especially at such a loaded position.
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