Pardon me, as I haven't seen clancy's post on this topic, but it seems completely unreasonable to me that Fielder would accept a stand-alone contract extension for two years. Why would he do that? As I see it, the only reason would be to increase his value after having an off-year this most recent season. Which would be all fine and good except that a premium player such as Prince should have no problem getting a club to put an opt-out clause in his contract, if he's that worried about it. But besides that, he's performed well enough to have earned a monster contract, there's no need for him to continue doing it for two years. In that situation the risk would outweigh any marginal benefits.