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GM: Dan O'Brien

Overview

FORCED-SPEND ↘ cooling
expensive & losing · year 3 in this regime · payroll 1.01× league · TAB -15.8
-15.8TAB — talent above budget25th/26
-10.1WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)21st/26
4.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars22nd/26
-8.6dead WAR — sub-replacement drag25th/26
57%dead money %25th/26
0.444win %20th/26
18.6roster fWAR26th/26
-15surplus $M (value vs cost)22nd/26
$30Mpayroll $M12th/26

Roster

CFJunior Félix 125GChad Curtis 35GReggie Williams 12G
LFLuis Polonia 99GChad Curtis 48GRob Ducey 20G
RFVon Hayes 85GChad Curtis 62GTim Salmon 21G
SSGary Disarcina 157GRene Gonzales 8GLuis Sojo 5G
2BLuis Sojo 96GRene Gonzales 42GBobby Rose 28G
3BGary Gaetti 67GRene Gonzales 53GDamion Easley 45G
1BLee Stevens 91GGary Gaetti 44GAlvin Davis 22G
STARTERSMark Langston 5.4WARJim Abbott 4.4WARJulio Valera 3.1WARBert Blyleven 1.4WARChuck Finley 1.3WAR
CMike Fitzgerald 74GRon Tingley 69GJohn Orton 43G
DHHubie Brooks 68GLuis Polonia 46GGary Gaetti 17G
BULLPEN★ Bryan Harvey 13svChuck Crim 0hSteve Frey 0hScott Bailes 0hScott Lewis 0hMike Butcher 0hHilly Hathaway 0h
CMike Fitzgerald 74 · Ron Tingley 69 · John Orton 43
1BLee Stevens 91 · Gary Gaetti 44 · Alvin Davis 22
2BLuis Sojo 96 · Rene Gonzales 42 · Bobby Rose 28
3BGary Gaetti 67 · Rene Gonzales 53 · Damion Easley 45
SSGary Disarcina 157 · Rene Gonzales 8 · Luis Sojo 5
LFLuis Polonia 99 · Chad Curtis 48 · Rob Ducey 20
CFJunior Félix 125 · Chad Curtis 35 · Reggie Williams 12
RFVon Hayes 85 · Chad Curtis 62 · Tim Salmon 21
DHHubie Brooks 68 · Luis Polonia 46 · Gary Gaetti 17
SPMark Langston 5.4 · Jim Abbott 4.4 · Julio Valera 3.1 · Bert Blyleven 1.4 · Chuck Finley 1.3
BP★ Bryan Harvey 13 · Chuck Crim 0 · Steve Frey 0 · Scott Bailes 0 · Scott Lewis 0 · Mike Butcher 0 · Hilly Hathaway 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.

1992 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mark Langston 31 FA-elig 335.4 3.5 +0.7
Jim Abbott 24 arb 294.4 1.9 +1.6
Julio Valera 23 pre-arb 303.1 0.1 +2.3
Rene Gonzales 31 FA-elig 1042.3 0.3 +1.5
Chad Curtis 23 pre-arb 1391.5 0.1 +1.0
Bert Blyleven 41 FA-elig 251.4 0.9 +0.2
Chuck Finley 29 FA-elig 311.3 4.4 -3.4
Mark Eichhorn↔ TOR 31 FA-elig 421.2 1.2 -0.2
Luis Sojo 27 pre-arb 1061.1 0.2 +0.6
Gary Disarcina 24 arb 1571.1 0.1 +0.7
Joe Grahe 24 pre-arb 460.8 0.1 +0.5
Ron Tingley 33 FA-elig 710.7 0.2 +0.4
Damion Easley 22 – 470.5 – –
Don Robinson↔ PHI 35 FA-elig 30.4 0.2 +0.1
John Orton 26 arb 430.4 0.1 +0.2
Bryan Harvey 29 arb 250.4 3.1 -2.8
Tim Fortugno 30 – 140.3 – –
Bobby Rose 25 arb 300.3 0.1 +0.1
Scott Lewis 26 pre-arb 210.2 0.1 +0.1
Lance Parrish↔ SEA 36 FA-elig 240.2 0.6 -0.5
Luis Polonia 28 arb 1490.2 1.6 -1.5
Mike Fitzgerald 31 FA-elig 950.1 0.3 -0.3
Junior Felix 24 arb 1390.1 0.6 -0.6
Mike Butcher 27 – 190.1 – –
Dick Schofield↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 10.0 0.0 +0.0
Reggie Williams 26 – 14-0.0 – –
Hilly Hathaway 22 – 2-0.1 – –
Alvin Davis 31 FA-elig 40-0.1 0.8 -0.9
Greg Myers↔ TOR 26 arb 8-0.1 0.1 -0.2
Jose Gonzalez 27 – 33-0.3 – –
Ken Oberkfell 36 – 41-0.3 – –
John Morris 31 FA-elig 43-0.4 0.2 -0.5
Tim Salmon 23 – 23-0.4 – –
Steve Frey 28 – 51-0.5 – –
Rob Ducey↔ TOR 27 arb 31-0.6 0.1 -0.5
Lee Stevens 24 pre-arb 106-0.7 0.1 -0.7
Chuck Crim 30 arb 57-0.7 1.1 -1.7
Scott Bailes 30 FA-elig 32-0.8 0.6 -1.2
Von Hayes 33 FA-elig 94-0.8 2.2 -2.9
Gary Gaetti 33 FA-elig 130-1.1 2.7 -3.5
Hubie Brooks 35 FA-elig 82-1.7 2.3 -3.7

Key additions (new vs 1991)

PlayerfWAR
Julio Valera3.1
Rene Gonzales2.3
Chad Curtis1.5
Bert Blyleven1.4
Damion Easley0.5
Don Robinson0.4

Key subtractions (gone from 1991)

Player1991 fWAR
Wally Joyner3.8
Dave Gallagher1.7
Kirk McCaskill1.3
Dave Winfield0.8
Donnie Hill0.6
Chris Beasley0.1

Current & Historical Payroll

1992 payroll
$30.3M

What the front office was committed to as of 1992, 1992–1998. 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 (18)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Chuck Finley296.000$4.4M$5.4M$3.9M$4.9M$3.1M$4.0M$5.0M
Mark Langston318.000$3.5M$3.5M$3.5M$5.0M$5.0M$4.0MFREE AGENT
Gary Gaetti3311.000$2.7M$2.4MFREE AGENT
Hubie Brooks3512.000$2.3MFREE AGENT
Von Hayes3311.000$2.2MFREE AGENT
Mark Eichhorn3110.000$1.2MFREE AGENT$170k
Bert Blyleven4122.000$900kFREE AGENT
Alvin Davis318.000$800kFREE AGENT
Lance Parrish3615.000$624kFREE AGENT
Scott Bailes306.000$600kFREE AGENT
Mike Fitzgerald319.000$350kFREE AGENT
Rene Gonzales318.000$325k$750kFREE AGENT$225k
Don Robinson3514.000$208kFREE AGENT
John Morris316.000$200kFREE AGENT
Ron Tingley3310.000$170k$262kFREE AGENT
Dick Schofield299.000$11kFREE AGENT$200k$250k
Jose Gonzalez277.000—FREE AGENT
Ken Oberkfell3615.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (11)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Bryan Harvey295.000$3.1MFREE AGENT
Jim Abbott243.000$1.9MARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Luis Polonia285.000$1.6MFREE AGENT
Chuck Crim305.000$1.1MFREE AGENT
Junior Felix243.000$640kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Greg Myers265.000$140kFREE AGENT
Gary Disarcina243.000$135kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
John Orton263.000$130kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Bobby Rose253.000$125kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Rob Ducey275.000$115kFREE AGENT
Steve Frey283.000—ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (12)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Luis Sojo272.000$190kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Lee Stevens242.000$130kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Joe Grahe242.000$125kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Scott Lewis262.000$120kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Julio Valera232.000$112kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Chad Curtis230.000$109kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mike Butcher270.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Damion Easley220.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Tim Fortugno300.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Hilly Hathaway22–—
Tim Salmon230.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Reggie Williams260.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Angels 1992; 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.