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The San Diego Padres withdrew their $4 million offer to Trevor Hoffman on Monday, leaving it unclear whether they would continue to negotiate with the career saves leader.

General manager Kevin Towers said last week he was trying to work out an agreement to keep the closer, but he sent a text message to The Associated Press on Monday night confirming "our offer was withdrawn." Towers would not...

No more flip decisions. Rather than heads or tails, baseball general managers plan to recommend that sites for division and wild-card tiebreakers be decided by wins and losses, rather than coin flips.

"The team that performed better against the other team I think is the one that deserves to have home-field advantage, not an arbitrary coin flip," San Diego Padres general manager Kevin Towers said...

The Dodgers clinched their first NL West championship in four years Thursday without lifting a bat. The Dodgers entered the day with a magic number of one, and got what they needed when the second-place Arizona Diamondbacks lost 12-3 at St.

Louis in the afternoon. That was several hours before Los Angeles faced the San Diego Padres in the Dodgers' final home game of the regular season.

In 2005, the San Diego Padres won the National League West with a record of 82-80, the kind of accomplishment a division never lives down.

It was the worst record ever for a division champion, and it was embarrassing, but it was also not likely to be repeated.

The NL West was about to unveil a crop of new players who would make it impossible for anyone to win the division at 82-80 again.