{"id":99094,"date":"2025-09-26T20:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=99094"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:03:04","slug":"cardinals-brendan-donovan-likely-shut-down-for-season-with-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=99094","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Brendan Donovan likely shut down for season with setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_sporting_news_articles_584\/37d49e0d3c0f4d6a644f2633a5318e59\" alt=\"Cardinals' Brendan Donovan likely shut down for season with setbacks -  Yahoo Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heading into the final week of the MLB regular season, the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; slim playoff chances were still alive. Now, with a weekend series left, they have been mathematically eliminated from October baseball.<\/p>\n<p>It was an up-and-down season for the Cardinals. They fought the odds up until the very last bit, but ultimately came up short for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>With this being said, reports suggest that it may bring an end to the Cardinals&#8217; lone 2025 All-Star for the final three games of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<h2>Brendan Donovan is likely done for the rest of 2025<\/h2>\n<p>Heading into the final series of the season against the Chicago Cubs, Jeff Jones of the <em>Belleville News-Democrat<\/em> announced that Brendan Donovan will most likely be shut down for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Jones stated that the 28-year-old &#8220;is likely to appear only in an emergency this weekend&#8221; against the Cubs after playing through lingering injuries in the final few months of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Cardinals are playing for nothing, there&#8217;s no need to play the All-Star utility man and risk a long-term injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: Cardinals&#8217; Sonny Gray hints at waiving no-trade clause after disappointing season<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donovan is expected to wrap up his breakout 2025 season after appearing in 118 games for the Cardinals, batting .287 with a .353 on-base percentage, .422 slugging percentage, and a .775 OPS while hitting 10 home runs and 50 RBI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MLB NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cubs&#8217; Rookie of the Year candidate faces setback before first postseason start<\/li>\n<li>Insider reveals three Mets players who could be traded this offseason<\/li>\n<li>Mets provide uncertain update on Kodai Senga following frustrating rehab stint<\/li>\n<li>Phillies set franchise home run record in game against Marlins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals are officially out of playoff contention, which gave the team the green light to shut down All-Star utility man Brendan Donovan for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardinals&#039; 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