"Preller drives everyone nuts!" said an AL executive. "He basically kept multiple teams on the hook as he shopped De Vries. He was a buyer, but kind of operated like a seller in terms of auctioning off De Vries to the highest bidder."

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' ambitious trade deadline may or may not work out in their favor, but A.J. Preller at least mitigated the risks.

The San Diego Padres made a lot of moves at the trade deadline, but one of their smaller moves looks to be better than anybody expected.

The San Diego Padres took a different route at the trade deadline, trading top prospects in their quest to catch the Dodgers.

DETROIT didn’t have a terribly sexy deadline but added starters Charlie Morton and Chris Paddack along with a few bullpen arms. The WHITE SOX held onto outfielder Luis Robert Jr. He has club options for the next two years, so perhaps we haven’t heard the last about his potential trade value.

We are about a week removed from the 2025 MLB trade deadline, and although theSan Diego Padres made multiple huge splashes to improve the roster right now byacquiring the likes of Mason Miller, Ramón Laureano,