Twins have expressed interest in right-handed starting pitcher Dylan Cease, as the Padres become a team to watch on the trade market

The Padres have been said through much of the offseason to be looking for ways to shed payroll and chief among those ways is the rumored potential trade of ace Dylan Cease. Among other teams, obviously,

A.J. Preller is finding traction amid a low-transaction offseason that seems to have been complicated by a budget crunch. Start with Friday’s breakthrough: the arbitration-avoiding, one-year contract reached between Preller and Padres co-ace Michael King.

The agreement extends the Padres’ streak of never having gone to an arbitration hearing in A.J. Preller’s tenure as general manager.