Los Angeles Dodgers: The three most likely moves to make

3. Re-sign Yasmani Grandal to a two-year contract

When Yasmani Grandal rejected the Los Angeles Dodgers qualifying offer it seemed as if he was bound to head elsewhere in free agency this year.

However, after the turn of the calendar, it is seeming more and more likely by the day that Grandal might find himself back in Los Angeles. We saw this last year with Mike Moustakas, whose market dissolved and lead to him re-signing with the Kansas City Royals for cheaper.

Grandal probably won’t get cheaper than he would have otherwise but he will get fewer years than he could. Grandal should have gotten around four years and actually rejected a four-year, $60 million contract from the New York Mets.

It is hard to pick out another team that is going to offer Grandal something similar so it makes sense for his career to head back to the team he is familiar with to further raise his stock and contend for more money in the short term.

For the Dodgers, it makes sense to add Grandal on two years. That would lead perfectly into when top catching prospect Keibert Ruiz would be big league ready. Not only that, there really are no other options on the market, unless the team wants to overpay for J.T. Realmuto in a trade.

It makes more sense to just pay Grandal rather than give up assets for Realmuto. With the Reds trade and the team also getting Rich Hill off the books, the Dodgers can afford to give Grandal a two-year, $32 million deal that can go as high as $40 million with incentives.

Those incentives would obviously be high but would give Grandal something to work towards. As his market stands right now, the most he is probably going to get is a three-year deal worth $36-40 million, the deal with the Dodgers makes much more sense.

Will it happen? Who knows. Despite his shortcomings at times, Grandal has still been one of the best catchers in the league and is a much better alternative to having Austin Barnes be the everyday catcher.