I just heard this indirectly from someone who works in the Padres front office. He's been right in the past with previous knowledge of Bochy leaving and Wells being signed far ahead of time.
He says in the next two days (before the end of the winter meetings) we will be signing one or more of the following: Carlos Lee, Barry Bonds or Alfonso Soriano. He also says we have a pretty good chance of signing Barry Zito who said he was willing to take less to come to San Diego.