The San Diego Padres were one of the most active teams at the ... They have depleted their prospect pipeline in recent years in the name of winning now. Padres GM AJ Preller spoke on why he was willing to part with De Vries, according to ESPN’s Alden ...

When the work was finished, and five trades involving 22 players had been executed within six hours, A.J. Preller's peers called him everything from a "lunatic" to a "genius," a divergence befitting Major League Baseball's most polarizing executive.

The San Diego Padres had a "potentially devastating" trade deadline, according to a rival front office executive.