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You have implicitly assumed that the Bedard trade was directly responsible for the follow-on collapse...or that's the way it comes across.  It didn't.  In fact the Bedard trade played almost no role at all in determining the fate of the '08 club or nay future club unless you think with all our pitching depth that we're going to depserately miss Tillman and Butler.
Adam Jones didn't have a veyr good 2008 year and has been easily replaced in 2009.
George Sherrill is now and has always been spectacularly overrated by most Mariner fans.  He's a nice fungible lefty specialist with stuff good enough to close out games shakily for a last place team.  Woo.
The rest of the prospects were replaceable too.
The 2008 team imploded due to many factors...NONE of which were Erik Bedard - aside from Bedard's injury trouble that is.