Mark Walter is still making the same point, and he is making it plainly: he is not selling the Dodgers.
That position comes even as Walter’s financial world is under heavy scrutiny, with an ongoing federal investigation and a separate SEC probe tied to alleged tax fraud involving insurance companies connected to TWG Global. But when asked directly about the Dodgers, Walter told Jack Harris of the California Post that a sale is not part of the plan.
“We’re going to keep the team no matter what,” he said. “We’re going to be winning for 10 years or more.
I think our commitment to do so will be just like it has been in the past. And, you know, we don’t win every year, but we’re going to try to.”
The questions around Walter’s assets have only grown because of how much he has been selling off. Reports say he needs to repay roughly $20 billion by the end of the year, which has forced a fast-moving liquidation. The biggest move so far was the sale of the Los Angeles Lakers to Josh Kusher and former Disney CEO Bob Iger just one year after he bought a controlling stake from Jeanie Buss.
Walter has also sold his stake in Chelsea Football Club and begun exploring a sale of the Los Angeles Sparks. He reportedly even approached Charter Communications with a proposal to end the Spectrum SportsNet and SportsNet LA regional TV contracts early in exchange for a lump-sum payment.
That kind of activity has kept the Dodgers speculation alive, even though the club keeps trying to shut it down.
Dodgers president Stan Kasten has already denied the idea of a sale twice during the season. “The Dodgers are not being sold, they’re not going to be sold, they’re not for sale. There is no process that has been started to sell, period,” he said.
TWG Global has also stepped in to back Walter and push back on claims that the Dodgers have been improperly funded. The company said, “Regarding the Los Angeles Dodgers, to be clear, the team is not being sold and no sale process has been initiated,” while also noting that reports by financial journalists say the Dodgers are not under investigation and no links have been found between the club’s finances and improper funding by Walter’s other businesses.
The company has ruled out Walter selling his shares in the Cadillac Formula 1 team or “any other part of TWG Motorsports,” though it did not close the door on the sale of other assets.
And inside the Dodgers’ walls, the message has stayed consistent: normal business.
After the team was eliminated in the National League Championship Series, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said Walter was already looking forward, not backward.
“We talked to Mark after we lost, and he was obviously really disappointed,” Friedman relayed. “But so much of his focus was on ‘OK, what can we do?
What are our plans? What are our thoughts for the offseason?’
“And our brains weren’t quite there yet, but so much of his focus was on, ‘ How do we put ourselves in the best position to win in ’27?”
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