The San Diego Padres were deemed as the co-best buyers with the Seattle Mariners at the trade deadline after the Mason Miller blockbuster.

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.

Starting pitcher Randy Vasquez's locker is cleared out at Petco Park as the San Diego Padres make a roster move.