Heading into the final hours of Major League Baseball's non-waiver trade season, the San Diego Padres were expected to put up a white flag and start supplying buyers with valuable assets left and right.
But now here we are in the aftermath of Friday's non-waiver trade deadline, and there's one question about the Padres that needs answering:
Just what in the heck happened?
By all accounts, a lot of things. But since it's a long story, we better start at the beginning.
The Padres did indeed have the look of a seller on the eve of the trade deadline.