The San Diego Padres shall be sporting a heart-shaped patch on the entrance of their uniforms throughout the 2024 season in reminiscence of workforce chairman Peter Seider, who died this previous November on the age of 63.
The patch options Seider’s initials PS in brown within the Padres’ typeface inside a yellow coronary heart. The patch is being worn on the higher left nook of the jersey, over every participant’s coronary heart.
“He was passionate about owning the Padres and bringing the fans of San Diego a team in which they could always take pride,” Main League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred stated on the time of his passing. “Peter made sure the Padres were part of community solutions in San Diego, particularly with the homeless community.”
San Diego had beforehand worn a memorial patch for an proprietor for Ray Kroc; the “RAK” patch was worn on the Padres’ jersey sleeve over the course of three seasons following his dying in 1984. The Padres have honoured a number of former employees, coaches, and gamers with jersey patches through the years, together with a house plate #19 patch for Tony Gwynn and a star with the initials “JC” for broadcaster Jerry Coleman in 2014, and a black circle with the quantity 48 on it for bullpen coach Darrel Akerfelds in 2012.
