DALLAS — Compelled by financial factors and the hunger of the New York Yankees, the San Diego Padres a year ago traded away one of the most heralded hitters in baseball history. A year later, they arrived at this week’s Winter Meetings in Dallas at the Hilton Anatole in a different position that might not be all that different after all.

Meetings were markedly less eventful for the Padres than the past two. No blockbuster Juan Soto trade. No Xander Bogaerts mega-contract. A productive week nonetheless, said general manager A.J. Preller,