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Padres need starting pitching
The San Diego Padres president of baseball operations, A.J. Preller, will be in Las Vegas over the next several days with other baseball executives and player agents to plan the offseason following the 2026 season.
That job will be complicated this year by the looming labor unrest and lockout that will almost definitely begin late on Dec. 1. The only previous precedent for this was the 2021-2022 offseason, when the last Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) was set to expire. During that short window of 2021, teams spent $1.9 billion before the lockout began.