{"id":560535,"date":"2026-02-08T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/560535\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T02:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:10:14","slug":"cardinals-hit-jackpot-landed-exciting-star-in-brendan-donovan-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/560535\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Hit Jackpot, Landed Exciting Star in Brendan Donovan Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have made a slew of moves in the right direction this offseason. They&#8217;ve traded players like Sonny Gray, Nolan Arenado, and Willson Contreras to bolster their farm system and free up money off their payroll.<\/p>\n<p>But the biggest move the Cardinals made this offseason was the blockbuster deal that sent All-Star infielder Brendan Donovan to the Seattle Mariners. The Tampa Bay Rays were also involved in the deal, making it a loaded three-team trade.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals were able to net a haul in exchange for Donovan, which makes a lot of sense, considering how incredibly talented and versatile Donovan is. While the loss of Donovan will hurt St. Louis, the team can&#8217;t be mad with the return.<\/p>\n<p>If you like our content,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">choose Sports Illustrated as a preferred source on Google.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bleacher Report&#8217;s Joel Retuer recently <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25390277-ranking-top-15-mlb-prospects-were-traded-offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared a lot of high praise for Cardinals pitching prospect Jurrangelo Cijntje<\/a> and listed him as the sixth best prospect who was traded this offseason. Cijntje was acquired in the aforementioned three-team blockbuster that sent Donovan to the Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals landed a potential star in the Brendan Donovan trade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Cardinals have made a slew of moves in the right direction this offseason. They&#8217;ve traded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-560535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116032584068092282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560535","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=560535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}