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.

A.J. Preller of the San Diego Padres is arguably the most fun general manager in MLB because of his insatiable desire to make trades, but that also makes him difficult for people around the league to deal with.

A.J. Preller’s Last Stand — the Padres’ president of baseball operations has traveled Highway Not Quite Good Enough to where he now finds himself: the exit to the community of Maybe Still Not Good Enough.

An anonymous American League executive spoke about San Diego Padres general manager AJ Preller after his active trade deadline.

For the Padres' general manager, it was another deadline where he was one of the top buyers. But, in a piece from Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, from the perspective of executives arou