Major League Baseball’s San Diego Padres, where the team’s sale process is scheduled to take place, and those interested in the acquisition have begun to appear.
Citing sources, the San Francisco Chronicle, a leading San Francisco media outlet, said on the 3rd (Korea Standard Time) that NBA team Golden State Warriors owner Joe Raycob is interested in acquiring the Padres.
They anticipated that Racob was “always interested in new opportunities” and that the Padres acquisition could be that “new opportunity.”
사진 확대 Joe Reykop holds the NBA Warriors and the WNBA Valkyries. 사진=ⓒAFPBBNews = News1
Raykop acquired the Warriors club based in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area for $450 million with Peter Goover in 2010. In addition, it also has a new WNBA club, Balkaris, based in the same region.
He has also been steadily interested in acquiring major league teams. There have been two attempts made so far.
He attempted to acquire the Oakland Athletics in the Warriors’ takeover bid. At the time, an oral agreement was completed, but the acquisition was canceled when then MLB Commissioner Bud Selic handed over the rights to sell the Athletics to John Fisher and Lou Wolf.
Since then, when the Athletics insisted on relocating the club, they have again expressed their intention to take over the club to leave the club in the Bay Area, but this time it was canceled because the owner of the Athletics did not express his intention to sell it.
In 2022, it has shown interest in acquiring the LA Angels. At the time, Angels owner Arte Moreno announced the sale of the club, but withdrew a year later.
And this time, the Seidler family began to show interest in acquiring the Padres, which the Seidler family said last month that it would seek to sell.
사진 확대 The Padres have caught both box office hits and performances recently. 사진=ⓒAFPBBNews = News1
The San Francisco Chronicle said it was unclear what kind of connection Raykop has with the Padres.
Guber, a co-owner of the Warriors team, has been a member of the Dodgers owner’s group since 2012.
The Seidler family took part in the Padres takeover battle in 2012 and bought the team for $800 million. Although it has been in the dark for a while, it has advanced to the postseason four times in the past six years and has surpassed 3 million in home games for three consecutive seasons, catching two birds with one stone in performance and box office.
There are also elements of anxiety. Since the Diamond Sports Group’s bankruptcy in 2023, the club has not been able to find a partner and has been broadcasting itself, and the large contracts signed by the late former owner Peter Seidler in his lifetime are also feared to be a negative factor for the club’s management in the future.
[KIM JAE HO, MK Sports Reporter]