MLB · 3B · Seattle Mariners
Brendan Donovan
B/T L/R · 5' 11" · 210 lb · born Wurzberg, Germany · age 29 · draft 2018 rd 7 · played 3B 40, DH 3, RF 3, 2B 2, +1 more · MLB debut 2022-04-25
159 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
500 career hits — Thu, Mar 26 · night game vs. Cleveland Guardians The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipBrendan Donovan #US150 · 2022 Topps Update · 48 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieBrendan Donovan #543 · 2022 Topps Heritage · 46 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Brendan Donovan is a 29-year-old third baseman born in Wurzberg, Germany, a 2018 seventh-round pick who debuted in April 2022. In 531 MLB games he has hit .282 with a .773 OPS and only 294 strikeouts against 43 home runs — a left-handed bat who puts the ball in play and has been doing it for five years.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95101.24
- Deserved (xVal)0.32018
- Got (aVal)0.36051
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0504
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- 2026 salary
- $6.50M
- Tax hit
- $6.50M
- Service time
- 5 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
The deal A3
On the sheet: A3 · agent Bledsoe Agency
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Seattle Mariners.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $5.80M
- Guaranteed
- $5.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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Umpire favor
-1.5 net runs over 18 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →