No team gutted its roster at the MLB trade deadline more than the Minnesota Twins. And this quickly had turned the Twins organization into the talk of the baseball world for all the wrong reasons. Given the fact that the Twins find themselves outside of the playoff picture in the American League,

The Padres were not the Twins. With his team’s playoff odds trending heavily upward in the past week, Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller did what he always does: he got aggressive and found ways to get what he needed.