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Angels ANA

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GM: Dan O'Brien

Overview

REBUILD → steady
cheap & losing · year 1 in this regime · payroll 0.84× league · TAB -11.4
-11.4TAB — talent above budget25th/28
-8.6WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)21st/28
5.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars20th/28
-7.4dead WAR — sub-replacement drag22nd/28
50%dead money %27th/28
0.438win %21st/28
20.6roster fWAR25th/28
-10surplus $M (value vs cost)22nd/28
$27Mpayroll $M20th/28

Roster

CFChad Curtis 151GStan Javier 16GJim Edmonds 1G
LFLuis Polonia 141GStan Javier 36GKelly Gruber 1G
RFTim Salmon 140GStan Javier 16GJim Edmonds 15G
SSGary Disarcina 126GRod Correia 40GKurt Stillwell 37G
2BTorey Lovullo 91GDamion Easley 54GKurt Stillwell 18G
3BRene Gonzales 79GEduardo Perez 45GKelly Gruber 17G
1BJ.T. Snow 129GRene Gonzales 31GTy Van Burkleo 12G
STARTERSMark Langston 5.6WARChuck Finley 5.1WARPhil Leftwich 1.2WARJoe Magrane 0.6WARJulio Valera 0.1WAR
CGreg Myers 97GRon Tingley 57GJohn Orton 35G
DHChili Davis 150GGary Gaetti 5GLuis Polonia 3G
BULLPEN★ Steve Frey 13svKen Patterson 0hJoe Grahe 0hMike Butcher 0hDoug Linton 0hDarryl Scott 0hScott Lewis 0hChuck Crim 0h
CGreg Myers 97 · Ron Tingley 57 · John Orton 35
1BJ.T. Snow 129 · Rene Gonzales 31 · Ty Van Burkleo 12
2BTorey Lovullo 91 · Damion Easley 54 · Kurt Stillwell 18
3BRene Gonzales 79 · Eduardo Perez 45 · Kelly Gruber 17
SSGary Disarcina 126 · Rod Correia 40 · Kurt Stillwell 37
LFLuis Polonia 141 · Stan Javier 36 · Kelly Gruber 1
CFChad Curtis 151 · Stan Javier 16 · Jim Edmonds 1
RFTim Salmon 140 · Stan Javier 16 · Jim Edmonds 15
DHChili Davis 150 · Gary Gaetti 5 · Luis Polonia 3
SPMark Langston 5.6 · Chuck Finley 5.1 · Phil Leftwich 1.2 · Joe Magrane 0.6 · Julio Valera 0.1
BP★ Steve Frey 13 · Ken Patterson 0 · Joe Grahe 0 · Mike Butcher 0 · Doug Linton 0 · Darryl Scott 0 · Scott Lewis 0 · Chuck Crim 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.

1993 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mark Langston 32 FA-elig 355.6 3.5 +1.0
Chuck Finley 30 FA-elig 355.1 5.4 -1.2
Tim Salmon 24 pre-arb 1424.7 0.1 +3.8
Chad Curtis 24 pre-arb 1522.2 0.2 +1.6
Scott Sanderson↔ SFG 36 FA-elig 212.0 0.5 +1.1
Damion Easley 23 pre-arb 731.4 0.1 +1.1
Phil Leftwich 24 – 121.2 – –
Stan Javier 29 FA-elig 921.0 0.6 +0.2
Chili Davis 33 FA-elig 1530.7 2.4 -1.9
Joe Magrane↔ STL 28 FA-elig 80.6 0.2 +0.3
Torey Lovullo 27 arb 1160.5 0.1 +0.3
Rene Gonzales 32 FA-elig 1180.5 0.8 -0.3
Gene Nelson↔ TEX 32 – 460.4 – –
Steve Frey 29 arb 550.3 0.5 -0.2
Mike Butcher 28 pre-arb 230.3 0.1 +0.1
Kurt Stillwell↔ SDP 28 FA-elig 220.3 0.5 -0.3
Kelly Gruber 31 FA-elig 180.2 4.3 -4.2
Ty Van Burkleo 29 pre-arb 120.1 0.1 +0.0
Brian Anderson 21 pre-arb 40.1 0.1 -0.0
Scott Lewis 27 arb 150.1 0.1 -0.0
Joe Grahe 25 arb 450.1 0.2 -0.1
Julio Valera 24 arb 190.1 0.2 -0.1
Darryl Scott 24 – 160.1 – –
Jerry Nielsen 26 pre-arb 100.1 0.1 -0.1
Larry Gonzales 26 – 20.1 – –
Mark Holzemer 23 pre-arb 50.0 0.1 -0.1
Hilly Hathaway 23 – 110.0 – –
Jim Walewander 31 – 12-0.0 – –
Chuck Crim 31 FA-elig 11-0.0 1.1 -1.1
Jerome Walton 27 arb 5-0.0 0.2 -0.3
Greg Myers 27 FA-elig 108-0.1 0.5 -0.6
Gary Disarcina 25 arb 126-0.1 0.3 -0.4
Paul Swingle 26 – 9-0.1 – –
Chris Turner 24 – 25-0.2 – –
Jim Edmonds 23 pre-arb 18-0.2 0.1 -0.3
J.T. Snow 25 pre-arb 129-0.2 0.1 -0.3
Ron Tingley 34 FA-elig 58-0.2 0.3 -0.5
Ken Patterson 28 – 46-0.3 – –
Eduardo Perez 23 – 52-0.3 – –
John Orton 27 arb 37-0.3 0.2 -0.4
Russ Springer 24 pre-arb 14-0.3 0.1 -0.4
Gary Gaetti↔ KCR 34 FA-elig 20-0.4 0.6 -0.9
Rod Correia 25 – 64-0.4 – –
Doug Linton↔ TOR 28 – 19-0.6 – –
John Farrell 30 FA-elig 21-1.1 0.2 -1.1
Luis Polonia 29 FA-elig 152-2.6 2.5 -4.6

Key additions (new vs 1992)

PlayerfWAR
Scott Sanderson2.0
Phil Leftwich1.2
Stan Javier1.0
Chili Davis0.7
Joe Magrane0.6
Torey Lovullo0.5

Key subtractions (gone from 1992)

Player1992 fWAR
Jim Abbott4.4
Bert Blyleven1.4
Mark Eichhorn1.2
Luis Sojo1.1
Don Robinson0.4
Bryan Harvey0.4

Current & Historical Payroll

1993 payroll
$26.6M

What the front office was committed to as of 1993, 1993–1999. 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 (16)

PlayerAgeSvc1993199419951996199719981999
Chuck Finley307.000$5.4M$3.9M$4.9M$3.1M$4.0M$5.0M$5.8M
Kelly Gruber319.000$4.3MFREE AGENT
Mark Langston329.000$3.5M$3.5M$5.0M$5.0M$4.0MFREE AGENT
Luis Polonia296.000$2.5MFREE AGENT
Chili Davis3312.000$2.4M$2.9M$3.8M$3.8MFREE AGENT
Chuck Crim316.000$1.1MFREE AGENT
Rene Gonzales329.000$750kFREE AGENT$225k
Stan Javier299.000$600kFREE AGENT
Gary Gaetti3412.000$588kFREE AGENT
Greg Myers276.000$525k$700k$852kFREE AGENT
Scott Sanderson3615.000$525kFREE AGENT$250k$200k
Kurt Stillwell287.000$487kFREE AGENT
Ron Tingley3411.000$262kFREE AGENT
John Farrell306.000$200kFREE AGENT
Joe Magrane286.000$197k$1.5MFREE AGENT
Gene Nelson3212.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (9)

PlayerAgeSvc1993199419951996199719981999
Steve Frey294.000$525kARB 3FREE AGENT
Gary Disarcina254.000$265kARB 3FREE AGENT
Jerome Walton274.000$250kARB 3FREE AGENT
Joe Grahe253.000$230kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Julio Valera243.000$190kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
John Orton274.000$160kARB 3FREE AGENT
Scott Lewis273.000$140kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Torey Lovullo275.000$109kFREE AGENT
Ken Patterson285.000—FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (21)

PlayerAgeSvc1993199419951996199719981999
Chad Curtis241.000$220kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Tim Salmon241.000$128kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jerry Nielsen261.000$115kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mike Butcher281.000$115kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Damion Easley231.000$112kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Russ Springer241.000$112kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
J.T. Snow251.000$110kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Brian Anderson210.000$109kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mark Holzemer230.000$109kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jim Edmonds230.000$109kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Ty Van Burkleo290.000$109kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Rod Correia25–—
Larry Gonzales26–—
Hilly Hathaway23–—
Phil Leftwich240.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Doug Linton281.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Eduardo Perez230.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Darryl Scott24–—
Paul Swingle26–—
Chris Turner240.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jim Walewander31–—

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Angels 1993; 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.