Peter Seidler saw his top-6 payroll end a playoff drought, one year after spending big dollars didn't work out
Though the jalopy wheezed and sputtered, they didn’t go home, heading instead to New York or St. Louis this week for the club’s first playoff game off a full season since 2006.See the National League playoff field, where all six teams occupy the NL’s top-6 in player payroll.Seidler tipped off this spree early in a tenure that began in August 2012, saying the Padres would begin to sustain playoff contention about 2020.
Not done flexing the team’s financial muscles, Seidler supported the team’s trades in early August. At a time when Fernando Tatis Jr. seemed on the verge of rejoining them, the Padres traded for closer Josh Hader and ate money on Eric Hosmer’s long-term contract to complete the trade that brought in Juan Soto and Josh Bell.The Padres were gunning to win this year’s World Series. Then came the announcement Tatis would be unavailable until 2023 because of a failed drug test.
Seidler had witnessed only losing seasons since buying into the Padres, other than the pandemic-shortened 60-game season in 2020. San Diego’s payroll was $80 million larger, and for the Brewers, the 2023 cost of retaining Hader, their often dominant but increasingly expensive, slump-ridden closer, fed into the decision to trade him west, even as the Padres loomed as a wild card-race rival.
Hader rallied after his July slump bled into August. Over his final nine outings, he allowed no earned runs and recorded five saves, Meantime, one day after a fatigued Williams blew a save, the Brewers punched San Diego’s playoff ticket Sunday.The Padres would be golfing if not for the huge 2022 seasons they reaped from two players whose price tags scared other teams.
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