When the Dodgers traded Yasiel Puig over the winter, it was a bit of a gut-punch, even if it wasn’t terribly surprising. They sent him, Kyle Farmer, Matt Kemp and Alex Wood to the Reds for a to-be-released Homer Bailey and two non-Top 100 prospects in Jeter Downs and Josiah Gray. It was a salary dump that saved the Dodgers about $17 million.
Puig had endeared himself to the fan base after one of the more polarizing careers a Dodger ever had.