Edwin Arroyo was a prize prospect in the Seattle Mariners system prior to being acquired by the Cincinnati Reds in the deal that sent Luis Castillo west. Connor Phillips, too, was a big piece in the Seattle system before he arrived in the Reds system in exchange for Eugenio Suarez and Jesse Winker.
Christian Encarnacion-Strand, meanwhile, was a big, big part of why the Reds chose to trade Tyler Mahle to the Minnesota Twins.
You may think the commonality between this trio is that they were all traded to the Reds during their most recent rebuild. You’d be correct, except that’s only one of the things that trio has in common at the moment.