ORLANDO, Fla. — As the Dodgers made a move to shore up their weak bullpen, the Padres seem to be trying to keep their strong bullpen intact.

And so the National League West goes on as it has.

“Obviously, they’ve invested a lot in their bullpen and their team every year, it feels like,” Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller said Tuesday. “I think we go into it knowing the NL West is gonna be really strong. We go into it knowing that obviously the Dodgers are gonna gonna spend a lot of money and they’re gonna go get top players every year and top performers. So I think those are givens.”

Preller was responding to a question about one of the big moves on the second day of the winter meetings.

Shortly after news broke that the Phillies had agreed to pay $150 million over fiv

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