The Los Angeles Dodgers have won two World Series championships in the last five years, and only a select few players have been a part of both.

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Two of those players, Austin Barnes and Chris Taylor, were released by the Dodgers in the span of a week. While the Dodgers used both veterans sparingly this season, the pair were the longest-tenured position players both having spent nearly a decade with the organization.

Nevertheless, the Dodgers felt it was best to part ways with Barnes and Taylor amid a tight division race. While the decision made sense from a business standpoint, Kiké Hernandez explained why their departures were difficult.

“That’s the part that sucks the most, not being able to say your goodbyes,” Hernandez said to Bill Plunkett of The Orange County Register. “It’s not like they’re dying. But not being able to say your proper goodbyes because you don’t know when you’re going to see them again.

“To see those two guys leave and not be able to have a moment to say goodbye and to have to do it through a text message or a phone call makes things a little weird.”

Both Barnes and Taylor are not expected to be out of a job for very long, but neither will be donning the Dodger blue. The next time the Dodgers see either player, they will be in a different uniform.