Lake Buena Vista, Fla. ? Greg Maddux is headed to the San Diego Padres, and J.D. Drew and Julio Lugo to the Boston Red Sox. Halfway through baseball’s winter meetings, teams remained focused on free agents instead of potential trades.

Not a single swap had been made through Tuesday evening, but New York Mets general manager Omar Minaya said he was close to a trade. The Chicago Cubs appeared to be discussing deals involving outfielder Jacque Jones.

Boston’s attempts to deal Manny Ramirez appeared to be slowing. But the Red Sox did reach a preliminary agreement on a $70 million, five-year contract with Drew. If healthy, he would join David Ortiz and Ramirez in the middle of the lineup.

“With David and Manny, if they want to walk those guys, we want them to pay a steep price,” Red Sox manager Terry Francona said.

Ramirez at times has said he wants to leave Boston, which annually explores trades for him without making one. Giants general manager Brian Sabean joked about a possible Ramirez trade, saying “it might be a four-way.” He hinted that he’d been in the suite of Red Sox GM Theo Epstein.

Maddux and the Padres, meanwhile, closed in on a $10 million, one-year contract, a deal that would contain a player option for 2008. Agent Scott Boras, without indicating a team, said Maddux’s deal “was moving positively … but not done yet.”

Details on Maddux’s potential contract with the Padres were disclosed by two people familiar with the talks who spoke in condition of anonymity because no deal had been finalized.

Boras said Barry Zito, another client, was “geographically free.” Zito, the top available free-agent pitcher, could wind up with a contract of six or seven years, a length that might eliminate several suitors.

In Tuesday’s only announced free-agent agreement, reliever LaTroy Hawkins and the Colorado Rockies finalized a $3.5 million, one-year contract. Reliever Joe Borowski and outfielder David Dellucci were to take physicals Tuesday, a step toward finalizing contracts with the Indians.

Elsewhere, Mike Piazza is expected to decide as soon as today between Texas and Oakland. Those are the two teams in the running for the 38-year-old Piazza, primed to make a move to the American League after spending the first 15 years of his big league career in the National League as a catcher.