Team chairman talks about star player's redemptive journey, why he believes so strongly in the 24-year-old
One of Fernando Tatis Jr.’s biggest fans was in Sacramento when Tatis began a minor-league assignment earlier this month.Seidler will be at Chase Field on Thursday when Tatis plays in his first major league game since the end of the 2021 season.He is also the guy who met with a 22-year-old Tatis on the night of Feb. 17, 2021, and talked about the next 14 years and all the great times they would enjoy and how thrilled he was to give him $340 million and the accompanying responsibility.
“Strong human beings come back from difficult circumstances,” he said. “I think he’s going to come back strong.” Seidler, the primary owner of the Padres and the namesake of a $3 billion private equity firm, did not get where he is by being naïve. But neither did he get there by sweating the small things or, really, sweating much of anything.
It would be an understatement to call Seidler an optimist and a believer in people. Happy is his default.By the time Seidler met with Tatis in August, the player had already gotten some firm feedback from Padres President of Baseball Operations A.J. Preller. Tatis knew what he had to do.
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