{"id":525410,"date":"2026-03-15T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525410\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:09:10","slug":"san-diego-padres-narrow-down-pool-of-buyers-as-sale-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525410\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres narrow down pool of buyers as sale nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"John Seidler is the new Padres control person.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JD5BKL33BBPDOTSA6VAKCEQCGU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>The Padres have \u201cnarrowed the field to four groups of prospective buyers as the process moves toward a sale that could be completed by April.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Padres have \u201cnarrowed the field to four groups of prospective buyers as the process moves toward a sale that could be completed by April,\u201d and the team\u2019s current owners may fetch \u201cmore than\u201d $3B. All of the four remaining groups \u201cspent time at the team\u2019s complex\u201d this week. The identities of the four remaining potential buyers \u201care not known,\u201d though three of the five suitors were identified by various sources in February as groups headed by Premier League club Chelsea owner &amp; Clearlake Capital Group co-founder Jose E. Feliciano, Friedkin Group CEO Dan Friedkin and Warriors owner Joe Lacob. It is not known if all three remain in the running to buy the Padres (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/03\/13\/four-remaining-prospective-buyers-visit-padres-spring-training-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/03\/13\/four-remaining-prospective-buyers-visit-padres-spring-training-complex\/\">SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 3\/13<\/a>). The final round of bids is \u201cexpected to come in early to mid-April.\u201d Those bids are \u201cprojected for the second week of the month\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7116849\/2026\/03\/13\/padres-sale-final-bids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7116849\/2026\/03\/13\/padres-sale-final-bids\/\">THE ATHLETIC, 3\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres have \u201cnarrowed the field to four groups of prospective buyers as the process moves toward a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,363,99],"class_list":["post-525410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}