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GM: Mike Port

Overview

FORCED-SPEND ↘ cooling
expensive & losing · year 2 in this regime · payroll 1.02× league · TAB -5.9
-5.9TAB — talent above budget19th/26
-7.2WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)21st/26
10.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars3rd/26
-5.7dead WAR — sub-replacement drag19th/26
48%dead money %23rd/26
0.463win %20th/26
28.6roster fWAR19th/26
-3surplus $M (value vs cost)18th/26
$12Mpayroll $M16th/26

Roster

CFDevon White 116GTony Armas 36GDante Bichette 17G
LFTony Armas 74GJohnny Ray 40GThad Bosley 25G
RFChili Davis 154GTony Armas 10GDante Bichette 5G
SSDick Schofield 155GGus Polidor 25GJunior Noboa 3G
2BJohnny Ray 104GMark McLemore 63GJunior Noboa 9G
3BJack Howell 152GGus Polidor 22GDomingo Ramos 10G
1BWally Joyner 156GGeorge Hendrick 12GJim Eppard 6G
STARTERSMike Witt 4.4WARKirk McCaskill 2.6WARChuck Finley 2.4WARTerry Clark 1.1WARDan Petry 0.3WAR
CBob Boone 121GDarrell Miller 53GButch Wynegar 26G
DHBrian Downing 131GJim Eppard 7GJohnny Ray 6G
BULLPEN★ Bryan Harvey 17svGreg Minton 0hStu Cliburn 0hSherman Corbett 0hDeWayne Buice 0hDonnie Moore 0hRay Krawczyk 0hJack Lazorko 0h
CBob Boone 121 · Darrell Miller 53 · Butch Wynegar 26
1BWally Joyner 156 · George Hendrick 12 · Jim Eppard 6
2BJohnny Ray 104 · Mark McLemore 63 · Junior Noboa 9
3BJack Howell 152 · Gus Polidor 22 · Domingo Ramos 10
SSDick Schofield 155 · Gus Polidor 25 · Junior Noboa 3
LFTony Armas 74 · Johnny Ray 40 · Thad Bosley 25
CFDevon White 116 · Tony Armas 36 · Dante Bichette 17
RFChili Davis 154 · Tony Armas 10 · Dante Bichette 5
DHBrian Downing 131 · Jim Eppard 7 · Johnny Ray 6
SPMike Witt 4.4 · Kirk McCaskill 2.6 · Chuck Finley 2.4 · Terry Clark 1.1 · Dan Petry 0.3
BP★ Bryan Harvey 17 · Greg Minton 0 · Stu Cliburn 0 · Sherman Corbett 0 · DeWayne Buice 0 · Donnie Moore 0 · Ray Krawczyk 0 · Jack Lazorko 0

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

1988 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Witt 27 FA-elig 344.4 1.4 -0.0
Bob Boone 40 FA-elig 1223.2 0.9 +0.1
Wally Joyner 26 pre-arb 1583.1 0.3 +0.6
Kirk McCaskill 27 arb 232.6 0.3 +0.6
Johnny Ray 31 FA-elig 1532.5 0.7 +0.0
Brian Downing 37 FA-elig 1352.5 0.9 -0.1
Devon White 25 arb 1222.4 0.2 +0.6
Dick Schofield 25 arb 1552.4 0.6 +0.2
Chuck Finley 25 pre-arb 312.4 0.1 +0.6
Bryan Harvey 25 pre-arb 502.3 0.1 +0.7
Jack Howell 26 arb 1541.3 0.2 +0.2
Greg Minton 36 FA-elig 441.2 0.5 -0.1
Terry Clark 27 pre-arb 151.1 0.1 +0.3
Mark McLemore 23 pre-arb 770.8 0.1 +0.1
Butch Wynegar 32 FA-elig 270.5 0.7 -0.6
Sherman Corbett 25 pre-arb 340.3 0.1 +0.0
Dan Petry 29 FA-elig 220.3 0.8 -0.7
Tony Armas 34 FA-elig 1200.2 0.1 -0.0
Thad Bosley↔ KCR 31 FA-elig 350.2 0.3 -0.2
Donnie Moore 34 FA-elig 270.2 1.0 -0.9
DeWayne Buice 30 pre-arb 320.2 0.1 -0.1
Ray Krawczyk 28 – 140.1 – –
Rich Monteleone 25 – 30.1 – –
Chili Davis 28 FA-elig 1580.1 0.8 -0.8
Jim Eppard 28 pre-arb 560.1 0.1 -0.0
Darrell Miller 30 arb 700.1 0.1 -0.1
Mike Cook 24 – 30.0 – –
Joe Redfield 27 – 1-0.0 – –
Urbano Lugo 25 – 1-0.1 – –
George Hendrick 38 FA-elig 69-0.1 1.0 -1.0
Jack Lazorko 32 arb 10-0.1 0.1 -0.1
Brian Dorsett 27 – 7-0.1 – –
Junior Noboa 23 – 21-0.2 – –
Domingo Ramos↔ CLE 30 – 10-0.2 – –
Vance Lovelace 24 – 3-0.3 – –
Bill Buckner↔ KCR 38 FA-elig 19-0.3 0.1 -0.2
Dante Bichette 24 – 21-0.3 – –
Mike Brown 28 – 18-0.3 – –
Frank DiMichele 23 pre-arb 4-0.3 0.1 -0.2
Doug Davis 25 – 6-0.4 – –
Stu Cliburn 31 arb 40-0.6 0.1 -0.2
Willie Fraser 24 pre-arb 34-0.7 0.1 -0.3
Chico Walker 30 FA-elig 33-0.7 0.1 -0.3
Gus Polidor 26 arb 54-1.1 0.1 -0.4

Key additions (new vs 1987)

PlayerfWAR
Terry Clark1.1
Sherman Corbett0.3
Dan Petry0.3
Thad Bosley0.2
Ray Krawczyk0.1
Rich Monteleone0.1

Key subtractions (gone from 1987)

Player1987 fWAR
John Candelaria2.1
Don Sutton1.1
Doug DeCinces1.1
Gary Pettis0.9
Jerry Reuss0.4
Ruppert Jones0.3

Current & Historical Payroll

1988 payroll
$12.0M

What the front office was committed to as of 1988, 1988–1994. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (15)

PlayerAgeSvc1988198919901991199219931994
Mike Witt277.000$1.4M$1.4M$800kFREE AGENT
Donnie Moore3413.000$1.0MFREE AGENT
George Hendrick3817.000$989kFREE AGENT
Brian Downing3715.000$900k$1.2M$1.2MFREE AGENT
Bob Boone4016.000$883kFREE AGENT
Chili Davis287.000$850k$1.5M$1.4MFREE AGENT$2.4M$2.9M
Dan Petry299.000$785k$785kFREE AGENT
Butch Wynegar3212.000$733kFREE AGENT
Johnny Ray317.000$732k$850k$1.1MFREE AGENT
Greg Minton3613.000$500k$830k$850kFREE AGENT
Thad Bosley3111.000$280kFREE AGENT
Tony Armas3412.000$100k$525kFREE AGENT
Chico Walker308.000$88kFREE AGENT
Bill Buckner3819.000$70kFREE AGENT
Domingo Ramos3010.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (10)

PlayerAgeSvc1988198919901991199219931994
Dick Schofield255.000$552kFREE AGENT
Kirk McCaskill273.000$262kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jack Howell263.000$200kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Devon White253.000$185kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Darrell Miller304.000$108kARB 3FREE AGENT
Gus Polidor263.000$97kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jack Lazorko324.000$97kARB 3FREE AGENT
Stu Cliburn314.000$70kARB 3FREE AGENT
Ray Krawczyk284.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT
Junior Noboa234.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (19)

PlayerAgeSvc1988198919901991199219931994
Wally Joyner262.000$340kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
DeWayne Buice301.000$150kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Willie Fraser242.000$125kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mark McLemore232.000$122kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Chuck Finley252.000$111kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Bryan Harvey251.000$62kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Terry Clark270.000$62kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jim Eppard281.000$62kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Frank DiMichele230.000$62kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Sherman Corbett250.000$62kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Dante Bichette240.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mike Brown28–—
Mike Cook24–—
Doug Davis25–—
Brian Dorsett271.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Vance Lovelace24–—
Urbano Lugo25–—
Rich Monteleone251.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Joe Redfield27–—

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Angels 1988; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
Rosternomics — quantifying front-office skill, attribution-clean. Follow @rosternomics on X. Decision-makers on record back to 1933; resource-controlled metrics (WAR & payroll) cover 1985–2026.
Data: FanGraphs (WAR), Baseball-Reference & the Chadwick Bureau register (rosters, IDs), the Lahman Database, Baseball America prospect rankings (via The Baseball Cube), and public payroll records. Transaction and trade data was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Executive birth/death data via Wikidata (CC0); bios are original. Emoji graphics by OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
All figures are franchise-level outcomes credited to the decision-maker in the acquisition year — not solely attributable to one executive.