{"id":552293,"date":"2026-02-03T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/552293\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:08:18","slug":"mariners-reportedly-acquire-cardinals-all-star-brendan-donovan-in-3-team-trade-involving-rays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/552293\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners reportedly acquire Cardinals All-Star Brendan Donovan in 3-team trade involving Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Mariners are reportedly acquiring All-Star infielder\/outfielder Brendan Donovan from the St. Louis Cardinals in a three-team trade that also involves the Tampa Bay Rays, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Per the New York Post’s Joel Sherman<\/a>, the Mariners are sending pitching prospect Jurrangelo Cijntje to the Cardinals and third baseman Ben Williamson to the Rays in return.<\/p>\n

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According to Passan, St. Louis will also receive a pair of prospects, center fielder Tai Peete from Seattle and outfielder Colton Ledbetter from Tampa Bay, as well as two competitive-balance Round B picks, in the return for Donovan.<\/p>\n

Donovan is a former Gold Glove winner who can play multiple positions in the infield and outfield. A four-year MLB pro, he has spent his entire career with the Cardinals and made his first All-Star team last season.<\/p>\n

In 118 games in 2025, Donovan slashed .287\/.353\/.422 with 10 home runs, 50 RBI and 64 runs scored while frequently hitting leadoff. He has played 118-plus games in three of his four MLB seasons and has never played fewer than 95.<\/p>\n

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Donovan joins a Mariners team looking to build on its 2025 AL West championship and trip to the ALCS, in which it lost in seven games to the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

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The Mariners lost slugging third baseman Eugenio Su\u00e1rez<\/a> in free agency this winter. But Donovan will join a lineup that features All-Stars Cal Raleigh, Julio Rodr\u00edguez and Randy Arozarena and finished ninth in runs scored last season.<\/p>\n

Donovan could replace Su\u00e1rez at third base. He offers the Mariners a versatile glove that can fill in at multiple positions, in addition to a reliable bat that can hit near the top of the order.<\/p>\n

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What the Cardinals, Rays are getting in the deal<\/p>\n

Per MLB.com<\/a>, Cijntje was the No. 7 prospect in the Mariners’ system and the No. 90 prospect in all of baseball. He’s a switch pitcher who’s expected to pitch as a right-hander in the majors. It’s not clear when he’ll be ready to pitch for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Peete was drafted by the Mariners in 2023 and spent the entire 2025 season with High-A Everett, where he slashed .213\/.285\/.401 with 19 home runs and 25 steals. Ledbetter was the Rays’ No. 24 prospect. Also drafted in 2023, he slashed .265\/.337\/.378 with 7 home runs and 37 stolen bases at Double-A Montgomery in 2025.<\/p>\n

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Williamson, 25, split his time between the Mariners and the minor leagues last season. He played in 85 Mariners game in his first season of big-league action, slashing .253\/.294\/.310 with 1 home run, 21 RBI and 36 runs scored in 295 plate appearances. He could join the Rays’ lineup this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Mariners are reportedly acquiring All-Star infielder\/outfielder Brendan Donovan from the St. Louis Cardinals in a three-team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,4806,4492,3297,92,3992,32137,1456,65,72662,673,67,2550,68,4391,1966,70],"class_list":["post-552293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-jurrangelo-cijntje","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattle-team","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-the-cardinals","tag-the-rays","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116007095717569343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}