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

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.