Cardinals have 2 front-runners for Brendan Donovan
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The St. Louis Cardinals and Seattle Mariners could come together on a trade involving Brendan Donovan this offseason.
MLB fans are demanding that the St. Louis Cardinals sign a former Cy Young Winner to bolster their pitching rotation.
Donovan is also one of the most consistent players in baseball, with an OPS between .759 and .787 in each of his four seasons. He’s hit 11, 14 and 10 home runs in each of the last three seasons, respectively, with an OPS+ of 114, 114 and 119. He posts, as the kids say. He posts every single season, in roughly the same way.
The market is large for Donovan, but a deal hasn't happened yet. While this is the case, ESPN's Jeff Passan said he expects at least one second baseman will be on the move and that Donovan and Ketel Marte are the "clear top options."
On the eve of these Winter Meetings near Disney World, Cardinals manager Oli Marmol put in a call to one of the players most teams are calling