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What if the Orioles never made the Erik Bedard trade?

All across SB Nation this week, sites are posing the amazing, frustrating, and sometimes terrifying question: What if?

The last 20 years of Orioles baseball could be broken up into two eras: before the Erik Bedard trade, and after.

It would have been fair to refer to the O’s as a “bumbling” franchise from the late '90s through the first decade of the 2000s. They couldn’t get out of their own way, making poor decisions in free agency, struggling to develop their own players and cycling through managers and GM’s every season or two.