The fit is obvious. The price might not be. And the Cardinals are trying to make it feel urgent.
If the Seattle Mariners needed a clearer read on how the Cardinals are playing this Brendan Donovan thing, Chaim Bloom just handed them one — with a stopwatch attached.
Multiple reports, including from Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, noted Bloom’s comments at the Cardinals’ Winter Warm-Up. The Cardinals’ president of baseball ops said he’d “ideally” like Donovan’s situation resolved “one way or other” by the start of Spring Training.