have said a resolution is not far off<\/a>. And Machado did acknowledge he thinks Preller will remain.<\/p>\n\u201cObviously, there\u2019s a lot going on right now with the organization, but I think they\u2019ll figure it out,\u201d Machado said. \u201cI think at the end of the day, we all know the value of A.J. in this organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
The goings on have included Preller trying to build out the roster and Seidler working through the process of selling the team, which is believed to be nearing its final stages.<\/p>\n
Machado on Sunday morning also provided commentary on the state of ownership. He first tied it to the job Preller has done building a playoff team on a budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, the last few years, we\u2019ve been pieces away \u2014 whether it\u2019s ownership or budget-related, we\u2019ve kind of been limited on some things,\u201d Machado said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some missing pieces. I think (Preller) does his best to put the best team out there. He\u2019s done it the last I don\u2019t know how many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Padres\u2019 payroll will sit in excess of $230 million once the three contracts agreed to this weekend \u2014 Castellanos and pitcher Griffin Canning and Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez \u2014 are finalized. That ranks eighth in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n
But almost half that money was committed on or before April 1, 2023, under the stewardship of late chairman Peter Seidler.<\/p>\n
Seidler and his fellow owners incurred massive debt while inflating the payroll to $282 million in 2023, third highest in the league. Following Seidler\u2019s November \u201823 death, and with MLB demanding the Padres drastically trim their debt, the team slashed nearly $100 million from the payroll and went on to win 93 games in 2024.<\/p>\n
With their payroll back among the top 10, the Padres made the postseason for the fourth time in six seasons in \u201825.<\/p>\n
Machado, however, has made enough pointed comments regarding spending in recent years to make clear he thinks ownership can do more.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, he lamented the fact the Seidler ownership is coming to an end but sounded a hopeful note about the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter\u2019s vision, we\u2019ve all bought into it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s sad that it\u2019s kind of (on)\u00a0 his last as last strings. \u2026 At the end of the day, all we can ask for is the next ownership to do what is best for the city. I think this city deserves the best. We\u2019re so close. We\u2019ve come so close. We\u2019ve come so far. We\u2019re excited for new ownership to come in and hopefully continue Peter\u2019s legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 Manny Machado arrived at spring training with the idea it will serve him and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,1334,74,76,75,2611,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-179287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}