A mid-afternoon Teixeira question

As baseball sits in a holding pattern waiting for the Mark Teixeira chip to fall, I have a question that we can ponder. How exactly does Mark Teixeira fill a need for either the Orioles or Nationals? While he is an elite offensive player, he’s not a Big Name like Barry Bonds. He won’t fill seats in the pathetically empty Nationals ballpark or Camden Yards. Considering the deep-rooted organizational and systematic problems those two teams face, the last thing they need to do is tie up their payrolls with an eight- or ten-year investment in a first baseman.

At this stage, the ideal landing spots for Teixeira are Anaheim, Boston and the Bronx. The Yanks seem to be playing this one close while the Angels and Red Sox are publicly all in. He may very well wind up on the Nationals and Orioles, but then Mark Teixeira would just toil in relative obscurity for a team heading nowhere fast.