By J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Main League Baseball content material. A veteran of 20 years of sports activities protection for every day newspapers in California, J.P. coated MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los Angeles Angels (sometimes of Anaheim) from 2012-23 for the Southern California Information Group. His first e-book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All-Time, printed in 2015. In 2016, he gained an Related Press Sports activities Editors award for breaking information protection. He as soon as recorded a keyboard solo on the identical album as two of the unique Doorways.
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When Peter Seidler’s widow sued the brothers of the late Padres proprietor for management of the franchise on Monday, it created a messy scenario round Main League Baseball — and never simply in San Diego.
Andy Martino of SNY reported Tuesday that “San Diego’s immediately contentious possession scenario has left different groups unsure of the crew’s offseason route.”
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The Padres completed second within the Nationwide League West final season at 93-69 and got here inside one recreation of upsetting the eventual World Sequence champion Los Angeles Dodgers within the NL Division Sequence. Seidler, who handed away in Nov. 2023, laid the groundwork for the Padres’ success partially by ballooning the crew’s payroll to report ranges. The Padres reportedly needed a $50 million loan in 2023 simply to satisfy payroll obligations.
Between the tip of the 2023 season and Opening Day of 2024, the Padres managed to shed payroll by almost $100 million. A core group led by Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr., Yu Darvish, and Joe Musgrove remained and helped lead San Diego again to the postseason after a one-year absence.
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Now, a battle for management of the crew has emerged between Seidler’s widow and his brothers. Peter Seidler’s brother, John, was chosen as membership management particular person in December pending MLB approval. Sheel Seidler, his widow, is difficult the appointment.
To @Padres followers, I would like you to listen to immediately from me. Peter and I had a mission to convey championship baseball to San Diego. That is still my dedication to you. Learn my full assertion under. pic.twitter.com/YW605jZ0P8
— Sheel Seidler (@sheel_padres) January 6, 2025
Sheel Seidler alleged in court documents filed Monday that Seidler’s brothers, Bob and Matt, have “irreconcilable conflicts of curiosity” and conspired to promote belief property to themselves at “far-below-market costs” as they “schemed to solidify their management of the Padres.”
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The Peter Seidler Belief, in a statement provided to The Big Lead, responded by saying “The criticism filed by Sheel Seidler, the widow of Peter Seidler, is solely with out benefit. Peter had a transparent property plan. The plan particularly named three of his 9 siblings, with whom he had labored carefully for a lot of many years, as successor trustees of his belief, and Peter himself prohibited Sheel from ever serving as trustee.”
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Given San Diego’s comparatively small market measurement, and the crew’s lack of spending this offseason, it was all however assumed the crew wouldn’t be lively in free company — and maybe make a few of their higher gamers out there through trades in the event that they wanted to additional lower prices upfront of the 2025 season.
Martino’s report means that gamers akin to All-Star Luis Arraez won’t be traded in any case. Arraez was linked to the Yankees as a attainable goal by ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Monday. Pitcher Dylan Stop has additionally been talked about as a credible possibility to get traded.
Now, the Padres’ offseason plan of action — in addition to who controls the membership — seems to be a supply of thriller.
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J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Main League Baseball content material. A veteran of 20 years of sports activities protection for every day newspapers in California, J.P. coated MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los Angeles Angels (sometimes of Anaheim) from 2012-23 for the Southern California Information Group. His first e-book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All-Time, printed in 2015. In 2016, he gained an Related Press Sports activities Editors award for breaking information protection. He as soon as recorded a keyboard solo on the identical album as two of the unique Doorways.
Jon Paul Hoornstra
J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Main League Baseball content material. A veteran of 20 years of sports activities protection for every day newspapers …
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