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GM: Bill Stoneman (since 2005)

2005 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.9
WAB — wins above budget
+4.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · made playoffs
-12M
surplus $M (value/$)
41.0
roster fWAR
$84.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Vladimir Guerrero 30 FA-elig 141 5.3 12.5 -2.6
John Lackey 26 arb 33 5.2 0.4 +9.3
Bartolo Colon 32 FA-elig 33 4.1 10.0 -2.3
Orlando Cabrera 30 FA-elig 141 3.5 6.0 +0.6
Paul Byrd 34 FA-elig 31 3.3 5.0 +1.3
Adam Kennedy 29 FA-elig 129 3.2 3.0 +3.0
Chone Figgins 27 arb 158 2.7 0.4 +4.7
Scot Shields 29 arb 78 2.2 0.9 +3.3
Jarrod Washburn 30 FA-elig 29 2.0 6.5 -2.8
Bengie Molina 30 FA-elig 119 1.7 3.0 +0.2
Darin Erstad 31 FA-elig 153 1.7 8.2 -5.1
Ervin Santana 22 – 23 1.6 – –
Francisco Rodríguez 23 arb 66 1.5 0.4 +2.4
Kelvim Escobar 29 FA-elig 16 1.5 6.2 -3.5
Juan Rivera 26 arb 106 1.1 0.4 +1.7
José Molina 30 FA-elig 75 0.9 0.7 +0.9
Dallas McPherson 24 – 61 0.6 – –
Brendan Donnelly 33 arb 66 0.4 0.4 +0.4
Casey Kotchman 22 – 47 0.4 – –
Chris Bootcheck 26 – 5 0.3 – –
Maicer Izturis 24 pre-arb 77 0.3 0.3 +0.2
Jeff DaVanon 31 FA-elig 108 0.3 0.9 -0.5
Jason Christiansen↔ SFG 35 FA-elig 12 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Josh Paul 30 FA-elig 34 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Robb Quinlan 28 pre-arb 54 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Jeff Mathis 22 – 5 -0.0 – –
Joel Peralta 29 – 28 -0.0 – –
Kevin Gregg 27 pre-arb 33 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
David Matranga 28 – 1 -0.0 – –
Greg Jones 28 – 6 -0.0 – –
Lou Merloni 34 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Zach Sorensen 28 – 12 -0.1 – –
Bret Prinz 28 arb 3 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Curtis Pride 36 – 11 -0.1 – –
Chris Prieto 32 – 2 -0.1 – –
Esteban Yan 30 FA-elig 49 -0.2 1.0 -1.3
Joe Saunders 24 – 2 -0.2 – –
Garret Anderson 33 FA-elig 142 -0.2 9.6 -10.1
Jake Woods 23 pre-arb 28 -0.3 0.3 -0.9
Steve Finley 40 FA-elig 112 -1.3 6.0 -8.4

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 28 of them (70%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR). Green = produced more value than paid (bargain); red = paid more than produced. Service: pre-arb (<3 yr) / arb (3–6) / FA-eligible (6+). Click headers to sort.

History: front-office performance & develop-vs-buy (1985–2024)

Trade ledger (realized WAR, all-time)

Best acquisitions
PlayerYearWAR for ANA
Chone Figgins200122.2
Brian Downing197716.9
Andrelton Simmons201514.6
Maicer Izturis200412.2
David Eckstein20009.8
Patrick Sandoval20188.9
Bob Boone19818.8
Bert Blyleven19888.4
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Phil Nevin199917.3
Patrick Corbin201016.5
Damion Easley199615.4
Mike Clevinger201410.8
Brandon Marsh20229.4
Roberto Hernández19898.6
Bobby Jenks20047.8
Martín Maldonado20116.3
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.