ANAHEIM — When elite reliever Mason Miller went from the A’s to the San Diego Padres at the trade deadline, he found himself relocating into the most intense rivalry currently in MLB.

“They told me right away, ‘Obviously, we don’t like those guys a whole lot,’” Miller said in a post-trade podcast appearance of being indoctrinated by his new teammates. “I haven’t really had a rivalry to that extent. … Not a rivalry to the sense of, the Padres and the Dodgers. I’m excited to experience that.”

There was apparently no comparable on-boarding process for the Dodgers’ trade deadline acquisitions , Brock Stewart ( now on the injured list ) and Alex Call.

“That’s a ‘their’ thing,” Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia said of Miller’s comments.

“I wasn’t a part of a meeting like that (with Stewart or

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