After Andrew Friedman was hired by the Los Angeles Dodgers as president of baseball operations, his first big trade was to send Matt Kemp and Tim Federowicz to the San Diego Padres in exchange for Yasmani Grandal, Zack Eflin and Joe Wieland.
Eflin was immediately flipped to the Philadelphia Phillies in a trade for Jimmy Rollins, and in January 2016 the Dodgers acquired Erick Mejia from the Seattle Mariners for Wieland. Suffice to say, Grandal has been the linchpin of the deal for Los Angeles.
In addition to providing them with a power bat at the catcher’s position, Grandal was under team control for three years via salary arbitration.