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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Anything seemed possible for the Padres a year ago. Extend Juan Soto? Sign Shohei Ohtani? There was talk last offseason of the Padres somehow doing both. Things have changed. That double was not all that likely at the time. Now it seems ludicrous. It would be foolish to rule out the possibility A.J. Preller could find a way to steal the hot stove headlines. If a trophy was awarded for winning the offseason, the Padres’ Petco Park lobby would have a display case housing a few of those. Preller, the Padres President of Baseball Operations, spent Tuesday here at the general ma…