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GM: Jerry Dipoto (since 2011)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.9
WAB — wins above budget
-0.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
-46M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.3
roster fWAR
$138.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dan Haren 30 FA-elig 35 6.0 12.8 +1.8
Jered Weaver 28 arb 33 5.4 7.4 +5.8
Howie Kendrick 27 arb 140 5.4 3.3 +9.8
Peter Bourjos 24 pre-arb 147 4.3 0.4 +10.0
Erick Aybar 27 arb 143 3.8 3.0 +6.3
Alberto Callaspo 28 arb 141 3.6 2.0 +6.7
Ervin Santana 28 FA-elig 33 2.5 8.0 -1.9
Torii Hunter 35 FA-elig 156 2.0 18.5 -13.6
Maicer Izturis 30 FA-elig 122 1.9 3.3 +1.3
Mark Trumbo 25 pre-arb 149 1.8 0.4 +4.0
Jordan Walden 23 pre-arb 62 1.4 0.4 +3.0
Mike Trout 19 – 40 0.7 0.1 +1.6
Scott Downs 35 FA-elig 60 0.6 5.0 -3.5
Hank Conger 23 pre-arb 59 0.6 0.4 +1.1
Joel Pineiro 32 FA-elig 27 0.5 8.0 -6.7
Rich Thompson 26 arb 44 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Vernon Wells 32 FA-elig 131 0.4 26.2 -25.3
Matt Palmer 32 – 3 0.3 – –
Jerome Williams 29 FA-elig 10 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Hisanori Takahashi 36 pre-arb 61 0.2 3.8 -3.2
Bobby Abreu 37 FA-elig 142 0.2 9.0 -8.4
Bobby Cassevah 25 pre-arb 30 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Gil Velazquez 31 – 4 0.1 – –
Tyler Chatwood 21 – 27 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Trevor Bell 24 – 19 0.1 0.9 -0.8
Chris Pettit 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Russell Branyan↔ ARI 35 FA-elig 37 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Efren Navarro 25 – 8 -0.0 – –
Horacio Ramirez 31 – 12 -0.0 – –
Jeremy Moore 24 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Andrew Romine 25 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Jeff Mathis 28 FA-elig 93 -0.1 1.7 -2.0
Francisco Rodriguez 28 – 10 -0.1 – –
Bobby Wilson 28 arb 57 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Scott Kazmir 27 FA-elig 1 -0.2 12.0 -12.5
Reggie Willits 30 arb 22 -0.2 0.8 -1.3
Brandon Wood↔ PIT 26 arb 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Garrett Richards 23 – 7 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Jason Bulger 32 FA-elig 5 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Fernando Rodney 34 FA-elig 39 -0.4 5.5 -6.5
Kevin Jepsen 26 arb 16 -0.5 0.4 -1.6
Alexi Amarista 22 – 23 -0.7 0.4 -2.0
Michael Kohn 25 pre-arb 14 -0.9 0.4 -2.6

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (88%). 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.