As the Los Angeles Dodgers continued building a superteam, Ryan Brasier became expendable. Boxed in by a lack of flexibility in their reliever group, they designated Brasier for assignment last Thursday.

Brasier, 37, had been designated for assignment on Thursday when the Dodgers made official their signing of Kirby Yates. Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes explained the move at the time was made due to a need for “flexibility” — with Brasier and Yates,