At the end of the 2025 season, Ben Rortvedt looked like he could've solved a few problems for the Dodgers. He clearly worked well with LA's pitchers right out of the gate (he caught Yoshinobu Yamamoto's near-no-hitter, then Tyler Glasnow's no-hit seven innings) and actually came up in a few spots offensively as well. He did well enough that he was carried onto the postseason roster instead of Dalton Rushing, and he appeared in four games from the Wild Card into the NLDS.
Keeping Rortvedt, a far more obvious backup catcher than Rushing, would've allowed the Dodgers to dangle Rushing as trade bait for, say, Steven Kwan this offseason.