Fielder's situation is nothing like Favre's relating to Green Bay (free agent vs retiring then coming back on your own terms and forcing the team iinto a tough situation) and I'm sorry for even countering that as it was nice to not talk about #4 for pretty much the past 12 months .
If anything this is similar to when Molitor left the Brewers, wanted more money and is entitled to it, more power to him. Team wasn't going to commit that much to one player. Although Molitor was older and thought to be past his prime too, which wasn't the case as it turned out.