SAN DIEGO (AP) — When baseball officials last gathered in San Diego for the winter meetings, the session took place at the Town and Country Resort in Mission Valley. No free agents reached agreements and players claimed collusion, which led to the first of three grievances against owners and eventually a $280 million settlement.The annual get-together is back, this time in downtown San Diego at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, and the average salary has soared from $372,000 to about $3.5 million. But one thing hasn’t changed from 1985: The Kansas City Royals are defending AL champions.Since then, offense has boomed with the Steroids Era and then gone bust in a new Age of the Pitcher.