Stan Kasten, who was the Nationals’ president from 2006 to 2010, is part of a triumvirate of businessmen who last night reached a deal to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers. Kasten joined with NBA legend Magic Johnson and Mark Walters, a Chicago financial services executive, to piece together a $2 billion bid for the the team, which has been a disputed asset in the viciously public divorce of its current owners, Frank and Jamie McCourt.

The Post’s Dave Shenin writes that while Johnson is the Los Angeles icon and Walters is the money man, the new ownership team really revolves around Kasten, whom Shenin calls “baseball’s top consiglieri“:

And Kasten, as folks in Washington surely know, is the ultimate baseball-ownership insider, having served as president of the Atlanta Braves during their 1990s-2000s heyday and the Washington Nationals from 2006-10. In Washington, it was Kasten’s inclusion in the Ted Lerner ownership bid, at least as much as Lerner’s own deep pockets and local ties, that won that group the right to buy the Nationals.

Kasten, SB Nation reports, is in line to run the day-to-day operations of the Dodgers once Major League Baseball approves the sale. Kasten, who helped Nationals owner Ted Lerner build up the franchise here out of the carcass of the Montreal Expos and ushered the construction of Nationals Park, is widely seen as a great asset for another team pulling itself up from the ground.

While running the Nats, Kasten earned a reputation for brusqueness with anyone who questioned his agenda, the Post’s Shenin writes. But it was a winning formula to get the Nationals up and running, and should serve him well in Los Angeles: “It would not be surprising if, given the franchise’s revenues, (soon to be bolstered by a lucrative television deal) and deep-rooted fan base, the Dodgers experience a quick turnaround under their new owners.”