Baseball scouts tell me their bosses can't figure out Peter Seidler's math. The riddle: how the Padres can afford such large player payrolls, without losing big money.
The Padres outspent 24 other teams each of the past two seasons. Several clubs trailed them by $100 million. In payroll commitments for 2023, the Padres stand fourth. Even the Dodgers trail them, for now, per Spotrac.com.
If other teams' bosses are professing incomprehension at Padres Economics, they may be acting dumb. It wouldn't do to tell the scouts, "Hey, the business of baseball is awesome. We could afford to juice our payroll, too. We just choose not to."
