{"id":671298,"date":"2026-04-09T01:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671298\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:36:57","slug":"brendan-donovan-gets-honest-as-seattle-continues-to-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671298\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Donovan gets honest as Seattle continues to struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> were defeated 3-0 by the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. Seattle now holds a 4-9 overall record this season. The Mariners were a fairly popular pick to reach the World Series out of the American League before the season, but the team has not played up to expectations. Offensively, Brendan Donovan has swung the bat well. However, the versatile player who was <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/mlb-stories\/brendan-donovan-trade-grades-mariners-cardinals-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired in a trade from the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> during the offseason has made a few mistakes from a defensive standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyanDivish\/status\/2042015179802865937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">addressed his defense Wednesday<\/a>, via Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not something you can run from. You\u2019ve just got to keep preparing and understand I\u2019m not playing to the standard that I set for myself, defensively and what I have done the last few years,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cThat\u2019s frustrating. My biggest thing is I just want to help the team win, and I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m doing a very good job of that over there, so I\u2019ll continue to prepare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donovan is producing on offense, though. He is currently hitting .316\/.422\/.605. The veteran has also hit three home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan earned the first All-Star selection of his MLB career in 2025. He is a player who is more than capable of helping Seattle from both an offensive and defensive standpoint. He will surely figure things out before too long.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/mariners-news-cal-raleigh-1st-2026-homer-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariners will continue to attempt to get back on track<\/a>. Seattle will next play the Houston Astros at home in a four-game series from Friday-Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Mariners were defeated 3-0 by the Texas Rangers on Wednesday.  Seattle now holds a 4-9 overall record this season.  The Mariners were a fairly popular pick to reach the World Series out of the American League before the season, but the team has not played up to expectations.  Offensively, Brendan Donovan has swung the bat well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Mariners were defeated 3-0 by the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. Seattle now holds a 4-9 overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-671298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-mariners","13":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116372190374095163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671298","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=671298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}