Fansided · Nov 29, 2025
'Ridiculous' 3-team trade proposal will break Mariners fans' brains
St. Louis Cardinals v Colorado Rockies | Justin Edmonds/GettyImagesNobody has ever looked at a hypothetical MLB trade proposal and been 100-percent convinced at first glance. This is not a fact, but it's a reasonable working theory that applies to a recent trade pitch designed, in part, to get Brendan Donovan from St. Louis to Seattle.
This one comes from Anthony Castrovince of MLB.com, who was open with framing his collection of trade pitches as "ridiculous." His notion was to be big and bold, no matter how unlikely his proposals are to happen in real life. Which brings us to this one involving the Mariners, the Cardinals and the New York Mets:
Mariners get: INF/OF Brendan Donovan