The San Diego Padres have been pretty quiet thus far ahead of the trade deadline, but there have been a lot of rumblings that AJ Preller could be cooking up something big. The Padres have been fascinated in a trade for Jarren Duran for a long time and he was certainly a trade candidate, but another name that kept popping up in the San Diego rumor mill was Athletics closer Mason Miller.
With closer Robert Suarez a trade candidate, the Padres found themselves in potential need of high leverage bullpen help and adding some rotation reinforcements given their injury situation wouldn't hurt as well.