After dancing around each other for months and months (and months), the Seattle Mariners and St. Louis Cardinals finally hooked up on a trade involving Brendan Donovan on Monday. For kicks, the Tampa Bay Rays got involved to make it a three-team deal.
Per various sources, the full deal breaks down like so:
- Mariners get: INF/OF Brendan Donovan (from STL)
- Cardinals get: RHP/LHP Jurrangelo Cijntje (from SEA), INF/OF Tai Peete (from SEA), OF Colton Ledbetter (from TBR), two Competitive Balance Round B picks (from SEA and TBR)
- Rays get: 3B Ben Williamson (from SEA)
That it's the Mariners who ended up winning the Donovan trade sweepstakes should come as a surprise to nobody.