{"id":560311,"date":"2026-02-07T23:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/560311\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:04:51","slug":"sheel-seidler-drops-most-claims-in-lawsuit-over-control-of-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/560311\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheel Seidler drops most claims in lawsuit over control of Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 Sheel Seidler, the widow of Peter Seidler, has settled most of her lawsuit against the late San Diego Padres owner\u2019s brothers over control of the franchise.<\/p>\n

A Feb. 2 court filing out of Travis County, Texas, showed Sheel Seidler and Robert and Matthew Seidler reached an \u201cagreement to resolve the matters between them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Details on the resolution were not released.<\/p>\n

According to the filing, because of the settlement, Sheel Seidler \u201cnonsuits with prejudice each claim that she asserted\u201d in her 2025 lawsuit. However, her claims of \u201cBreach of Duty to Distribute\u201d and \u201cDemand for Accounting\u201d were not withdrawn, the filing stated.<\/p>\n

Sheel Seidler sued Robert and Matthew Seidler on Jan. 6, 2025<\/a>, accusing the brothers of misappropriating and misusing assets that her late husband left for her.<\/p>\n

The original lawsuit stated, \u201cPeter made clear that the Seidler Trust, and their assets, were to exist for Sheel\u2019s sole benefit during her lifetime. Yet time after time, Defendants have treated those assets as their own, to the detriment of the Trust and Mrs. Seidler.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheel Seidler’s lawsuit also attempted to prevent John Seidler from taking control of the team, rather than her. In the suit, Sheel claimed she was the rightful person to control the franchise after her husband’s death in 2023.<\/p>\n

“Peter had long spoken about his desire to leave the Padres as a legacy to his family his wife and their children and his hopes that the team would one day be run by Sheel and their children. Indeed, for many years before his death, Sheel acted as Peter’s primary advisor in matters related to the Padres, and Peter indicated his wish for Sheel, and later their children, to take up his position as Padres Control Person upon his death,” the lawsuit stated.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, John Seidler was approved by Major League Baseball owners as the Padres\u2019 control person.<\/p>\n

After the 2025 season, the Seidler family announced they were exploring the possible sale of the franchise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 Sheel Seidler, the widow of Peter Seidler, has settled most of her lawsuit against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,73903,73904,38794,137,18,4339,4338,60299],"class_list":{"0":"post-560311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-padres-lawsuit","12":"tag-padres-sale","13":"tag-peter-seidler","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-padres","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-sandiegopadres","18":"tag-sheel-seidler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116031856477136742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}