Until now, the offseason of the San Diego Padres will remain in the memories for two things: Mail Roki sasaki And The start of a brunt of property at birth. It turns out that the two could be linked.
This fight of property involving the former president of Padres, the widow of the widow of Peter Seidler, and her brothers became ugly on Monday evening. In response to the pursuit of Sheel alleging violations of the trustee and fraud obligation, Matt Seidler, one of the brothers, filed an answer with his own set of allegations.
More particularly for fans of Padres, Matt Seidler painted the timing of the Sheel trial as reckless with the continuation of the Sasaki team, a Japanese phenomenon with so much excess value integrated He could have transformed his off -season.
“During a crucial period when Padres management was in the late negotiation phase with a star launcher, the Sheel trial has insufficiently suggested that Matt and his brothers plotted to move the paadres elsewhere,” said the file.
The formulation of the “late negotiation stages” with Sasaki would indicate that the paadres made progress to convince Sasaki to sign, although it is difficult to take something written in a legal file as objective representation of these negotiations.
However, the Sasaki team has definitely noticed:
“We knew it was a problem,” Sasaki agent Joel Wolfe said on Tuesday when he presented the wording in Matt Seidler’s response. “The moment appeared strangely strategic, and I wanted to allow the paadres to face it first in their own terms rather than trying to understand it for ourselves, which they did.”
The paadres were considered the most likely team to land Sasaki if he rejected the dodgers and were not shy about their interest. The director general of Padres, AJ Preller, went so far as to call Sasaki by name during the celebration of the life of Peter Seidler last March. The team was reported To be willing to exchange for enough international bonus pool money to offer it a bonus over $ 10 million, much more than the $ 6.5 million he obtained from Dodgers.
Instead, Sasaki chose the Dodgers. During his introductory press conference, he said that the No. 1 thing that stood out about his new team was “Stability of the Office Front. “”
Some have seen this as an indirect excavation for the paadres and their situation. Former Padres Voltueur Jurickson Profar said things more explicitly after Leave the team for an agreement of $ 42 million over three years With the Braves d’Atlanta, calling for the “problem” of the team’s property as why a return to San Diego would have been difficult.
More broadly, the problems of ownership of the team can be seen by the fact that the paadres did not sign a free agent to a major league contract until Tuesday, when they brought the recipient Elias Díaz on A one -year agreement, $ 3.5 million. Meanwhile, the dodgers have blown out the world of baseball and the giants of San Francisco and Arizona Diamondbacks both signed free agents to nine -digit offers.
San Diego has run one of the largest wages in baseball in the last years of Peter Seidler’s life, but has continued to reduce pay since the loss.
Matt Seidler’s response to Sheel would have been far beyond the Sasaki line, alleging that she had demanded $ 20 million in the team’s annual distribution and describing it as “unhappy” that Peter did not leave her In control of the team after his death. He claims that Peter changed his confidence at least seven times after his marriage in 2008 and did not name him once a successor fiduciary.
Another of Peter’s brothers, John Seidler, should be elected by the owners of the MLB as a permanent control of the Padres next week.
