Padres owner guilty of signing the star of the Backer Roki Sasaki to a lawsuit of the widow of the late former owner
Owners of San Diego Padres Matthew and Robert Seidler, brother of the late former owner Peter Seidler, replied a lawsuit He endured Peter’s widow, Sheel Kamal Seidler, who sues for the property of this.
Matthew and Robert’s lawyer answered Fox News Digital, suggesting guilt for Sheel’s lawsuit for the inability of the team to sign the Japanese star -stars Roki Sasaki This off -season period. Sasaki signed a rival Los Angeles Dodgers after he had been dealing with difficult discussions with Padres for weeks.
“During the key time when Padres management was in the late negotiating stages of the starry launch, Sheel’s lawsuit recklessly suggested that Matt and his brothers planned to move Padrese elsewhere,” the answer that was submitted to Texas on Monday, read the court.
Sasaki said he was one of the reasons he decided to sign with Dodgers for the stability of the organization, at his introductory press conference last week.
“Thing number 1 that stood out [about the Dodgers] It was the stability of the front office, “said the launch through the translator.
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Los Angeles Dodgers Backer Roki Sasaki (11) speaks during the introductory press conference at Dodger Stadium. (Jayne Kamin-oncea-Imagn Pictures)
In early January, Sheel filed a lawsuit against her brothers in an attempt to take control of them for a team for her children.
In her appeal, the widow stated that before his death, Peter revealed that his dying desire was to take control of Padres, followed by their children and that her children had the highest proportion of ownership. He adds that Peter’s two brothers, Matt and Bob, “are trying to erase Peter’s vision and heritage, as well as falsely throw themselves like the Peter’s true heirs.”
The lawsuit also states that Bob’s wife made more “racist, spacious and hate communication aimed at Sheel – a woman of Indian origin – in communications”.
The answer Matt and Robert claim that Peter never set Sheel as a team’s successor throughout his life.
“Peter could have selected (a) give a sheel right to be, determine or approved an individual who controls Padres, (b) give direct ownership or control with Sheel over the interest of the Padres trust, (c) give Sheel the right to approval or veto on Any transaction by a guardian or (d) requires a guardian to make any major distribution shel requires, “the answer states.
In response, he claims that Peter changed his trust at least seven times after their marriage and never called Sheel as a heir in any version and that she was excluded that he “ever served as a guardian heir under any circumstances.”
The answer also claims that Peter said during his life that he wanted his brothers and sisters and nieces to take control of the team after his death.
San Diego Padres owner Peter Seidler watches before the MLB World Tour Mexico City series between San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants at the Alfred Harp Helú Stadium on April 2023. In Mexico City in Mexico. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
“Peter has raised numerous conversations with his brothers and sisters and others about people who control heirs and consistently identified five family members of Seidler as candidates: Bob, Matt, John, his brother Tom (who has 30 years of career in a baseball, including 12 years with Padresa) and his niece, Monica, “she read.
“In none of these conversations, Peter never suggested or even implied that he wanted Sheel to run Padres. While Peter told people close, he moved his family to Texas in 2021 in a significant part because he wanted to ‘take pressure from Sheel’s children’ and ‘pull Sheel out of the center.’ Peter knew too well with the potential effects of media attention, as well as other pressure, stresses and demands that come with the possession of a sports franchise. “
Fox News Digital addressed Sheel for comment, but did not receive an answer at the time of the publication.
Peter died in November 2023 at the age of 63. He was ill for months, although he had not been discovered exactly what he did. Seidler is a Survivors of cancer who had health problems for a long time.
In July 2023, he said that Padres would remain within his family after he passed away.
Peter was the founder of Seidler Equity Partners, which was a key part of the Padres group bought in 2012. Seidler’s uncle, also named Peter, and Ron Fowler, were also part of the group.
The name of the group comes from Seidler’s grandfather, Walter O’Malley, who owned Dodgers from 1950, when they first moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, until 1979. Fowler transferred the role of the chairman to the 2020 Seidler, and then Seidler bought a part of Fowler’s stake in the organization to become the largest team stakeholder.
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A general view during the game between San Diego Padres and Pittsburgh Pirates on May 27, 2022. At Petco Park in San Diego, California. (Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images)
Prior to his death, he made a number of high costs of Superstar players in an effort to compete with Los Angeles Dodgers at the NL West Division and win World Series.
These contracts include Manny Machad’s contract of $ 350 million, Fernando Tatis Jr. In the amount of $ 340 million, Xander Boguertz $ 280 million and YU Darvish Treaty of $ 108 million.
The team never managed to reach the world series, but they beat the Dodgers rival in the 2021 and 2022 playoffs.
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