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GM: Jerry Dipoto (since 2012)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.5
WAB — wins above budget
+8.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
98–64 (0.605)
record · made playoffs
-5M
surplus $M (value/$)
45.3
roster fWAR
$137.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Trout 22 arb 157 8.3 1.0 +23.2
Howie Kendrick 30 FA-elig 157 4.6 9.3 +4.2
Erick Aybar 30 FA-elig 156 4.2 8.5 +3.7
Garrett Richards 26 arb 26 4.1 0.5 +11.6
Kole Calhoun 26 pre-arb 127 3.4 0.5 +9.3
Hank Conger 26 arb 80 2.8 0.5 +7.7
Albert Pujols 34 FA-elig 159 2.7 23.0 -15.0
David Freese 31 arb 134 2.5 5.0 +2.2
Matt Shoemaker 27 pre-arb 27 2.0 0.5 +5.5
Chris Iannetta 31 FA-elig 108 2.0 5.0 +0.9
Tyler Skaggs 22 pre-arb 18 1.5 0.5 +3.9
Collin Cowgill 28 arb 106 1.4 0.5 +3.5
Jered Weaver 31 FA-elig 34 1.3 16.0 -12.1
Josh Hamilton 33 FA-elig 89 1.1 17.0 -13.8
Joe Smith 30 FA-elig 76 1.0 5.2 -2.4
Kevin Jepsen 29 FA-elig 74 0.9 1.5 +1.0
Jason Grilli↔ PIT 37 FA-elig 40 0.8 2.7 -0.4
Cory Rasmus 26 pre-arb 30 0.7 0.5 +1.4
Fernando Salas 29 arb 57 0.6 0.9 +0.8
Huston Street↔ SDP 30 FA-elig 28 0.6 3.2 -1.6
C.J. Wilson 33 FA-elig 32 0.6 16.0 -14.4
Mike Morin 23 – 60 0.6 0.5 +1.1
Héctor Santiago 26 arb 30 0.5 0.5 +1.0
Wade LeBlanc↔ NYY 29 pre-arb 10 0.3 0.1 +0.7
Efren Navarro 28 pre-arb 64 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Gordon Beckham↔ CHW 27 arb 26 0.2 0.9 -0.3
Vinnie Pestano↔ CLE 29 arb 12 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Drew Rucinski 25 – 3 0.1 – –
Yoslan Herrera 33 – 20 0.1 – –
Jairo Díaz 23 – 5 0.1 – –
Jose Alvarez 25 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.5 -0.4
JB Shuck↔ CLE 27 arb 22 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Sean Burnett 31 FA-elig 3 0.0 3.8 -3.7
Rich Hill↔ NYY 34 – 2 0.0 0.0 -0.0
John Buck↔ SEA 33 FA-elig 5 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Joe Thatcher↔ ARI 32 FA-elig 16 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
David Carpenter 26 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Cam Bedrosian 22 – 17 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Josh Wall 27 – 2 -0.1 – –
Dane De La Rosa 31 arb 3 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Jarrett Grube 32 – 1 -0.1 – –
Nick Maronde 24 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Ian Stewart 29 arb 24 -0.1 0.9 -1.3
Michael Kohn 28 arb 25 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Shawn O'Malley 26 – 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Luis Jimenez 26 – 18 -0.1 – –
C.J. Cron 24 – 79 -0.2 0.3 -0.8
John McDonald 39 FA-elig 95 -0.2 0.8 -1.4
Tony Campana↔ ARI 28 arb 18 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Grant Green 26 pre-arb 43 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Michael Roth 24 pre-arb 7 -0.4 0.3 -1.5
Brennan Boesch 29 arb 27 -0.5 0.8 -2.3
Ernesto Frieri↔ PIT 28 arb 34 -0.5 2.7 -4.3
Raul Ibanez↔ KCR 42 FA-elig 57 -0.8 1.7 -4.0

54 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (89%). 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.