“This is my first time ever being traded,” Brendan Donovan said in news conference Wednesday at the Peoria Sports Complex in Peoria, Ariz. “I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I thought it went smooth. When I got the call from (president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto), I was like ‘OK this is a real thing.’ Immediately after talking with my family, we were just excited. You see the history of this organization and what the team did last year, and immediately after, just the welcoming factor. Guys were just so welcoming to my family and I. To me that’s very important. … Just seems like an overall great group of people.”
