Donovan goes to arbitration with Cardinals, asking for $3.3 million instead of $2.85 million
February 11, 2025
Donovan goes to arbitration with Cardinals, asking for $3.3 million instead of $2.85 million
28 comments
Good for him.
Good for him. Fuck DeWallet and Mo and Chaim.
Donovan is literally a top 3 player on our team. And might be top 2.
3.2 WAR is worth nearly 26 million dollars a year for an open market FA in their prime. Fuck this CHEAP Marlins attitude franchise.
Get your money Donny
I really hope Mo just gives him the extra cash, considering it’s so minimal. Donovan is a Gold Glover who has hit over 110 in OPS+ every season. He also adds a lot of flexibility to the lineup by being able to play most positions in the field.
I’m not going to pretend to be one of those smart people who understands how baseball contracts and arbitration works, but on the surface he deserves the extra half million. That should be chump change for a baseball organization like us.
“Pay that man his money”
For the love of all that’s good, Mo, just give him the damn money.
We really are a bunch of freakin cheapskates. Great bat, great utility player. Absolutely no reason that he should lose this hearing.
Just pay him. We can pay Mikolas and Matz over $26mil, but can’t take care of our young core for a measly $450k? Wtf
Pay the man. He’s the team Kama Sutra because he knows all the positions.
Hopefully he wins
PAY THE MAN
Absolute chump change to the DeWitts
Why are the people who run our team a bunch of lolcows?
I think it’ll be good for morale to argue at arbitration that players aren’t worth what they want. Looking forward to a fun season.
People always lose their mind over these reports. Yes, it’s stupid and they should just pay the player but this is the system they have all agreed to. The cardinals are a trial and file team, this isn’t anything new and they are sticking to their policy of trial and file. Donnie will get a raise. But it’s just so weak that this is how teams handle this stuff. Sometimes it’s whatever, but occasionally it can really get into a players head and hurt everyone involved. (See: TON)
I think 3.3 is a bargain based on his consistent performance.
Go for it Donny
Why does it feel like we constantly go to arbitration over a “relatively” small sum for players that are much more valuable than that? Doesn’t arbitration almost always cause at least *some* strife since it’s basically hearing from your team all the ways you don’t deserve the money you’re asking?
Man I’m ready for Mo to get out of the front office this offseason has been a shitshow
I get why everyone is frustrated about what seems like a small number but this is literally nothing new and happens on every team.
This organization absolutely sucks, you have a good young super utility guy that is one of your better hitters and you cheap out over <$500k.
Remember when we used to pick up good young players?
At this point, being a Cardinals fan feels like a chore. Attendance is down, alumni are clowning on the organization, the front office isn’t willing to give the team tools to win, and now we’re nickel and diming one of our best young players.
I wonder how close they can come to becoming the A’s before things turn around.
Fucking dumb ass org doing dumb ass shit
Is this just an industry thing? Like does EVERY TEAM go to arbitration with their players over a couple hundred thousand?
Because Cardinal’s fans (myself included) get understandably pissed whenever this happens, but I’m honestly unsure of if it’s a unique situation where the Cardinals are being dumb and/or cheap, or if it’s just standard practice in baseball for broader business/negotiation reasons.
I agree it’s fucking stupid, but all the fans here and on social media act like it’s a uniquely “Cardinals” thing to squabble over small amounts of money like this and I have no idea how true that is.
This is so fucking stupid… Risk pissing off one of our better, most versatile players, over $450,000? Really?… I’m not a person who is in favor of all these massive contracts, and I can understand not even trying to sign a player like Juan Soto, when it was obvious he was going to ask for the moon.. I GET THAT.
But it’s not like the DeWitt’s aren’t loaded! At one point, fucken Dollar Bill DeWitt Jr. was the 4th richest MLB owner. And even if we’re slashing payroll, GOD FORBID we spend less than half a million on one of the guys who’s actually been a pretty solid player for the last three seasons! Has he been prefect? No. Did he maybe regress a little last year? Yes. But he’s STILL DOING MORE FOR THIS TEAM than the likes of Walker, Gorman, Pages, Matz, Libertore, Mikolas, etc.
28 comments
Good for him.
Good for him. Fuck DeWallet and Mo and Chaim.
Donovan is literally a top 3 player on our team. And might be top 2.
3.2 WAR is worth nearly 26 million dollars a year for an open market FA in their prime. Fuck this CHEAP Marlins attitude franchise.
Get your money Donny
I really hope Mo just gives him the extra cash, considering it’s so minimal. Donovan is a Gold Glover who has hit over 110 in OPS+ every season. He also adds a lot of flexibility to the lineup by being able to play most positions in the field.
I’m not going to pretend to be one of those smart people who understands how baseball contracts and arbitration works, but on the surface he deserves the extra half million. That should be chump change for a baseball organization like us.
“Pay that man his money”
For the love of all that’s good, Mo, just give him the damn money.
We really are a bunch of freakin cheapskates. Great bat, great utility player. Absolutely no reason that he should lose this hearing.
[Donovan growing into Cards’ next leader](https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/news/brendan-donovan-inspired-by-paul-goldschmidt-to-be-cardinals-leader)
And they want to argue over 450k. 🙄
Give it to him, you fucks. He’s our best player
Just pay him. We can pay Mikolas and Matz over $26mil, but can’t take care of our young core for a measly $450k? Wtf
Pay the man. He’s the team Kama Sutra because he knows all the positions.
Hopefully he wins
PAY THE MAN
Absolute chump change to the DeWitts
Why are the people who run our team a bunch of lolcows?
I think it’ll be good for morale to argue at arbitration that players aren’t worth what they want. Looking forward to a fun season.
People always lose their mind over these reports. Yes, it’s stupid and they should just pay the player but this is the system they have all agreed to. The cardinals are a trial and file team, this isn’t anything new and they are sticking to their policy of trial and file. Donnie will get a raise. But it’s just so weak that this is how teams handle this stuff. Sometimes it’s whatever, but occasionally it can really get into a players head and hurt everyone involved. (See: TON)
I think 3.3 is a bargain based on his consistent performance.
Go for it Donny
Why does it feel like we constantly go to arbitration over a “relatively” small sum for players that are much more valuable than that? Doesn’t arbitration almost always cause at least *some* strife since it’s basically hearing from your team all the ways you don’t deserve the money you’re asking?
Man I’m ready for Mo to get out of the front office this offseason has been a shitshow
I get why everyone is frustrated about what seems like a small number but this is literally nothing new and happens on every team.
This organization absolutely sucks, you have a good young super utility guy that is one of your better hitters and you cheap out over <$500k.
Remember when we used to pick up good young players?
At this point, being a Cardinals fan feels like a chore. Attendance is down, alumni are clowning on the organization, the front office isn’t willing to give the team tools to win, and now we’re nickel and diming one of our best young players.
I wonder how close they can come to becoming the A’s before things turn around.
Fucking dumb ass org doing dumb ass shit
Is this just an industry thing? Like does EVERY TEAM go to arbitration with their players over a couple hundred thousand?
Because Cardinal’s fans (myself included) get understandably pissed whenever this happens, but I’m honestly unsure of if it’s a unique situation where the Cardinals are being dumb and/or cheap, or if it’s just standard practice in baseball for broader business/negotiation reasons.
I agree it’s fucking stupid, but all the fans here and on social media act like it’s a uniquely “Cardinals” thing to squabble over small amounts of money like this and I have no idea how true that is.
This is so fucking stupid… Risk pissing off one of our better, most versatile players, over $450,000? Really?… I’m not a person who is in favor of all these massive contracts, and I can understand not even trying to sign a player like Juan Soto, when it was obvious he was going to ask for the moon.. I GET THAT.
But it’s not like the DeWitt’s aren’t loaded! At one point, fucken Dollar Bill DeWitt Jr. was the 4th richest MLB owner. And even if we’re slashing payroll, GOD FORBID we spend less than half a million on one of the guys who’s actually been a pretty solid player for the last three seasons! Has he been prefect? No. Did he maybe regress a little last year? Yes. But he’s STILL DOING MORE FOR THIS TEAM than the likes of Walker, Gorman, Pages, Matz, Libertore, Mikolas, etc.
What a fucking joke.
Cheap fucking bastard DeWitts.