{"id":897993,"date":"2026-10-28T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:44:13","slug":"mark-walter-plans-to-keep-dodgers-no-matter-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897993\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Walter plans to keep Dodgers \u2018no matter what\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mark Walter\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WPY5YZCP5NDJVOSNHBZ4T4AXRE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Dodgers owner Mark Walter said he is going to \u201ckeep the team no matter what.\u201d MLB Photos via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Dodgers owner Mark Walter said he is going to \u201ckeep the team no matter what.\u201d In other words, just as everyone from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/23\/dodgers-president-stan-kasten-confirms-mark-walter-will-not-sell-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/23\/dodgers-president-stan-kasten-confirms-mark-walter-will-not-sell-team\/\">team President Stan Kasten<\/a> to President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman has \u201crepeatedly reiterated in recent months,\u201d Walter plans on things \u201cbeing business as usual for his iconic baseball franchise.\u201d His comments, which came in an exclusive interview with the CALIFORNIA POST, come amid \u201ccontinued speculation\u201d surrounding him and his status as the team\u2019s owner and chairman. Walter stated not only to continue owning the Dodgers, but that he will keep \u201csupporting them with the same level of financial resources that have allowed them to set MLB payroll records each of the last two seasons.\u201d Walter \u201cdeclined to address the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/20\/report-mark-walters-insurance-companies-guggenheim-face-federal-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/20\/report-mark-walters-insurance-companies-guggenheim-face-federal-probe\/\">federal investigation<\/a> into his insurance companies, saying it was \u2018not appropriate for me to comment while the investigation is ongoing.\u2019\u201d He was \u201cadamant that the sale of the Lakers had \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/12\/report-mark-walter-not-selling-dodgers-following-lakers-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/12\/report-mark-walter-not-selling-dodgers-following-lakers-sale\/\">nothing to do with the Dodgers<\/a> at all.\u2019\u201d He also declined to comment on recent reporting that he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/10\/23\/report-walter-trying-to-unload-wnbas-sparks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/10\/23\/report-walter-trying-to-unload-wnbas-sparks\/\">looking to sell the Sparks<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/28\/sports\/dodgers-owner-mark-walter-wont-sell-dodgers-no-matter-what\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/28\/sports\/dodgers-owner-mark-walter-wont-sell-dodgers-no-matter-what\/\">CALIFORNIA POST, 10\/28<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers owner Mark Walter said he is going to \u201ckeep the team no matter what.\u201d MLB Photos via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,363,99],"class_list":["post-897993","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\/897993","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=897993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}