The Pacific Northwest's long regional nightmare is finally over. Brendan Donovan is going to be a Seattle Mariner, and the trade that made it happen feels like the best possible kind of bait-and-switch.
Mariners fans had been hoping for (and certainly reading plenty about) a potential Donovan trade for what felt like months. That's probably because the game of chicken between the Mariners and St. Louis Cardinals did last for literal months, before finally culminating in a three-team trade with the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday.
Katie Woo and Chad Jennings of The Athletic first broke the news, with Adam Jude and Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times eventually reporting more details:
The Mariners are sending Ben Williamson to Tampa Bay and two prospects to St.