聯盟認為 A.J. Preller 在之前 Drew Pomeranz 交易案, 和其他的交易中，
刻意隱瞞健康紀錄，所以決定禁止他執行職務30天。
https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/776564438044381184
@Ken_Rosenthal
Sources: Pomeranz and other players traded by #Padres were taking oral
medications that SD did not disclose.
http://lat.ms/2cCkv0n
Padres General Manager A.J. Preller is suspended for 30 days
In 2014, when the new owners of the San Diego Padres hired A.J. Preller as
their general manager, they insisted that they were well aware of an asterisk
by his name. When Preller ran international scouting operations for the Texas
Rangers, Major League Baseball had suspended him for a month, reportedly over
improper contact with a prospect.
Two years later, MLB has suspended Preller again. The league announced
Thursday that Preller has been suspended 30 days without pay over
improprieties related to the Padres’ July 14 trade of pitcher Drew Pomeranz
to the Boston Red Sox.
The league announcement did not offer any details, but ESPN reported Thursday
that the Padres had effectively withheld medical records from other clubs by
setting up an internal database and funneling some information there rather
than into the database accessible to all 30 teams.
Pomeranz remains with the Boston Red Sox. However, after the Padres sent
pitcher Colin Rea to the Miami Marlins in a seven-player trade on July 29,
Rea started the next day and was removed in the fourth inning with an elbow
injury. The Padres agreed to take back Rea in a subsequent trade; the
announcement of Preller’s suspension cited only the Pomeranz trade.
The suspension caps a turbulent season for the Padres. The team will miss the
playoffs for the 10th consecutive year, and attendance is down despite the
lure of this year’s All-Star Game at Petco Park.
The Padres have traded most of Preller’s high-priced imports from the winter
of 2014-15, his first in charge. The Padres finished in fourth place last
season with Matt Kemp, Craig Kimbrel, Melvin Upton and James Shields, and
they will finish in fourth place — or fifth — without them.
In the interim, the owners entrusted Preller to spend the most money of any
major league team this year on signing international amateur players and told
fans the team probably would not contend again until 2019.