{"id":72012,"date":"2026-04-17T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/san-diego-padres-reportedly-set-for-mlb-record-3-9bn-sale-to-chelsea-co-owner\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:54:55","slug":"san-diego-padres-reportedly-set-for-mlb-record-3-9bn-sale-to-chelsea-co-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/san-diego-padres-reportedly-set-for-mlb-record-3-9bn-sale-to-chelsea-co-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres reportedly set for MLB-record $3.9bn sale to Chelsea co-owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Clearlake\u2019s Jos\u00e9 E Feliciano, wife Kwanza Jones win bid<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Previous record for club was Cohen\u2019s $2.42bn for Mets<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Everton owner Dan Friedkin said to be among finalists<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The San Diego Padres are nearing a sale to a group led by Jos\u00e9 E Feliciano, co-founder of private equity firm Clearlake Capital and co-owner of Chelsea FC, and his wife, Kwanza Jones, for a Major League Baseball-record $3.9bn, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/sports\/baseball\/san-diego-padres-sale-b954a4d4\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7203881\/2026\/04\/17\/san-diego-padres-sale-jose-e-feliciano\/\">the Athletic<\/a> reported on Friday that the group was closing in on a deal. The sale requires approval by 75% of MLB\u2019s 30 owners. The reported price would surpass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/oct\/30\/steve-cohen-new-york-mets-sale\">the $2.42bn Steve Cohen<\/a> paid for the New York Mets in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/17\/san-diego-padres-record-sale-jose-feliciano-chelsea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearlake\u2019s Jos\u00e9 E Feliciano, wife Kwanza Jones win bid Previous record for club was Cohen\u2019s $2.42bn for Mets Everton owner Dan Friedkin said to be among finalists The San Diego Padres are nearing a sale to a group led by Jos\u00e9 E Feliciano, co-founder of private equity firm Clearlake Capital and co-owner of Chelsea FC, &#8230; <a title=\"San Diego Padres reportedly set for MLB-record $3.9bn sale to Chelsea co-owner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/san-diego-padres-reportedly-set-for-mlb-record-3-9bn-sale-to-chelsea-co-owner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about San Diego Padres reportedly set for MLB-record $3.9bn sale to Chelsea co-owner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}