Timeline: A look at the Seidler family’s stewardship of the Padres

The Seidler family is exploring selling the Padres, a move that would mark the end of a significant chapter in franchise history.

Here’s a look at the Padres through the Seidler era:

2009: Former player agent Jeff Moorad puts together a group to purchase the Padres from John Moores for $500 million on an installment plan that would take up to five years to complete.

2012:  Unable to secure the 22 owners’ votes needed to finalize the sale, Moorad steps down as CEO in March. Moores puts the Padres back on the market in April.

A group spearheaded by heirs of the former owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers, including Peter Seidler, and San Diego beer distributor Ron Fowler purchases the Padres for $800 million — including $200 million in upfront money the Padres received as an advance payment from Fox Sports San Diego as part of a new, 20-year cable deal. Fowler is introduced as the control person in late August. Seidler is among the speakers at the introductory press conference. Fowler says the group plans to “under-promise and overdeliver.”

2013:  Padres CEO Tom Garfinkel resigns in July, paving the way for Mike Dee, a former Larry Lucchino lieutenant, to return to the team as CEO and president.

2014: General manager Josh Byrnes is fired in July, setting up the new ownership group’s second significant hire as A.J. Preller is hired a month later.

2015: Major League Baseball announces in January that the Padres will host the 2016 All-Star Game, the first at Petco Park. The announcement arrives on the heels of San Diego hosting the winter meetings for the first time since 1985 and Preller’s active first offseason as general manager. Excitement builds. But in June, Padres manager Bud Black is fired after Preller’s first attempt to build a winner — with Matt Kemp, Justin Upton, Wil Myers and James Shields on the roster — gets off to a 32-33 start.

2016: Dee is fired as CEO and president in October, about a month after Preller is served a monthlong suspension for withholding medical information in a trade with the Boston Red Sox. The team loses 94 games amid a string of nine straight losing seasons. The team’s biggest commitments to baseball operations that year arrived in the form of more than $80 million, including overage taxes, spent on the 2016-2017 international amateur class. The team unloads Shields’ contract in June in a trade that nets 17-year-old Fernando Tatis Jr.

2018: The team hands out its first nine-figure salary, signing first baseman Eric Hosmer for $144 million.

2019: Manny Machado signs for $300 million in February, which for a brief time is the largest free-agent contract in MLB history. By the end of spring training, veterans on the team — including Machado and Hosmer — convince Preller that a 20-year-old Tatis is ready to begin the season on the opening day roster.

2020: Fowler steps down as executive chairman and control person in November, clearing the way for Seidler to take over.

2021: Seidler OKs a franchise-record 14-year, $340 million deal for Tatis. Erik Greupner is also promoted to CEO as the calendar year gets underway.

2022: The Padres trade for Juan Soto in the summer, weather Tatis’ wrist surgery and season-ending PED suspension to advance to the NLCS for the first time since 1998.

2023: Buoyed by a deep playoff run, the Padres add Xander Bogaerts ($280 million), extend Machado ($350 million) and draw more than 3 million fans for the first time since Petco Park’s inaugural season in 2004. The Padres still miss the playoffs, adding insult to injury after Bally Sports San Diego’s parent company files for bankruptcy and stops making payments on a cable deal. Seidler dies in November from an infection related to a compromised immune system. In December, the team trades Soto with plans to cut payroll from a franchise-record $256 million.

2024: A second-half surge pushes the Padres back into the postseason. Seidler’s older brother, John, is tabbed in December to become the team’s next control person, taking the baton from interim control person Eric Kutsenda.

2025: Sheel Seidler, Peter Seidler’s widow, sues two of his brothers over control of the team. John Seidler is approved by MLB as the Padres’ control person as the team qualifies for the playoffs for a second straight year and breaks its attendance record a third straight year.

Thursday: The Padres announce that the Seidler family will “explore strategic options,” a move that could be a precursor to selling its stake in the team.