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GM: Jerry Dipoto (since 2012)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.2
WAB — wins above budget
-4.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-37M
surplus $M (value/$)
31.7
roster fWAR
$122.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Trout 21 pre-arb 157 10.1 0.5 +26.7
C.J. Wilson 32 FA-elig 33 2.9 11.0 -3.2
Hank Conger 25 arb 92 2.8 0.5 +7.0
Jered Weaver 30 FA-elig 24 2.3 16.0 -9.9
Howie Kendrick 29 FA-elig 122 2.1 8.8 -3.0
Garrett Richards 25 pre-arb 47 1.7 0.5 +4.1
Jason Vargas 30 FA-elig 24 1.7 8.5 -4.0
Mark Trumbo 27 arb 159 1.7 0.5 +3.9
Josh Hamilton 32 FA-elig 151 1.3 17.0 -13.5
Erick Aybar 29 FA-elig 138 1.2 8.5 -5.4
Dane De La Rosa 30 – 75 1.0 – –
Kole Calhoun 25 pre-arb 58 1.0 0.5 +2.2
JB Shuck 26 pre-arb 129 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Ernesto Frieri 27 pre-arb 67 0.7 0.5 +1.4
Grant Green↔ OAK 25 pre-arb 40 0.7 0.1 +1.6
Peter Bourjos 26 pre-arb 55 0.6 0.5 +1.0
Albert Pujols 33 FA-elig 99 0.5 16.0 -14.7
Robert Coello 28 – 16 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Tommy Hanson 26 arb 15 0.4 3.7 -2.7
Alberto Callaspo↔ OAK 30 FA-elig 86 0.4 2.6 -1.6
Luis Jimenez 25 – 34 0.3 0.2 +0.7
Scott Downs↔ ATL 37 FA-elig 43 0.3 3.2 -2.3
Michael Roth 23 pre-arb 15 0.3 0.1 +0.7
Kevin Jepsen 28 arb 45 0.3 1.2 -0.4
Jerome Williams 31 FA-elig 37 0.3 2.0 -1.3
Buddy Boshers 25 pre-arb 25 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Matt Shoemaker 26 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Collin Cowgill↔ NYM 27 pre-arb 50 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Efren Navarro 27 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.0 +0.1
Juan Gutierrez↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 28 0.1 0.4 -0.3
John Hester 29 arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Ryan Brasier 25 – 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Sean Burnett 30 FA-elig 13 -0.1 3.5 -3.6
Scott Cousins 28 – 7 -0.1 – –
Andrew Romine 27 arb 47 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Cory Rasmus↔ ATL 25 pre-arb 16 -0.2 0.1 -0.5
Daniel Stange 27 – 3 -0.2 – –
Brad Hawpe 34 – 17 -0.2 – –
Michael Kohn 27 pre-arb 63 -0.2 0.4 -1.1
David Carpenter 25 pre-arb 1 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Chris Nelson↔ COL 27 arb 33 -0.3 0.3 -1.0
Mark Lowe 30 FA-elig 11 -0.3 0.6 -1.3
Barry Enright 27 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Nick Maronde 23 pre-arb 10 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Tommy Field 26 – 15 -0.3 – –
Joe Blanton 32 FA-elig 28 -0.4 6.5 -7.5
Brendan Harris 32 – 44 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Billy Buckner 29 – 7 -0.5 – –
Chris Iannetta 30 FA-elig 115 -0.6 5.0 -6.5

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 43 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.