MLB Trade Deadline Shockers: Which Teams Made Genius Moves and Who Set Themselves Up for Disaster?
Many teams, nowadays, use computer models to help inform and, in some cases, dictate decision making. Padres GM AJ Preller cares not one bit for your model or anyone else’s. Once again, the free-wheelin’ exec swung a headline deal for an All-Star and gave up a bounty in prospect capital to do it. I think giving up De Vries for a reliever is a mistake, though it appears that San Diego might be planning to move Miller back to the rotation next year. For now, the flamethrowing closer gives the Padres a dynamite bullpen capable of knocking off the Dodgers in October, which is the whole point of this anyway. Don’t sleep on the O’Hearn/Laureano deal. Those guys are both having splendid offensive seasons and the top-heavy Padres lineup was in desperate need of reinforcements.
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