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GM: Bill Stoneman (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.7
WAB — wins above budget
-6.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
-42M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.3
roster fWAR
$134.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Trout 23 arb 159 9.3 6.1 +23.2
Kole Calhoun 27 arb 159 3.2 0.5 +9.6
Garrett Richards 27 arb 32 2.8 3.2 +5.6
David Freese 32 FA-elig 121 2.2 6.4 +0.5
Albert Pujols 35 FA-elig 157 1.6 24.0 -18.9
Andrew Heaney 24 pre-arb 18 1.6 0.3 +4.7
C.J. Wilson 34 FA-elig 21 1.6 18.0 -13.1
Johnny Giavotella 27 arb 129 1.5 0.5 +4.1
Chris Iannetta 32 FA-elig 92 1.4 5.5 -1.0
Nick Tropeano 24 pre-arb 8 1.1 0.1 +3.4
Joe Smith 31 FA-elig 70 0.9 5.2 -2.3
Erick Aybar 31 FA-elig 156 0.9 8.5 -5.7
Jered Weaver 32 FA-elig 26 0.8 18.0 -15.5
Fernando Salas 30 arb 72 0.7 1.4 +1.0
Matt Shoemaker 28 pre-arb 25 0.7 0.5 +1.8
Héctor Santiago 27 arb 33 0.6 2.3 -0.3
Cesár Ramos 31 FA-elig 65 0.6 1.3 +0.6
Mike Morin 24 pre-arb 47 0.5 0.5 +1.2
Carlos Pérez 24 – 86 0.5 0.4 +1.3
C.J. Cron 25 pre-arb 113 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Huston Street 31 FA-elig 62 0.4 7.0 -5.8
Jose Alvarez 26 pre-arb 64 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Daniel Robertson 29 pre-arb 37 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Collin Cowgill 29 arb 55 0.2 1.0 -0.3
Trevor Gott 22 – 48 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Alfredo Marte 26 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Jett Bandy 25 – 2 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Cory Rasmus 27 pre-arb 16 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Efren Navarro 29 arb 54 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Ryan Mattheus↔ CIN 31 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Jo-Jo Reyes 30 arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Edgar Ibarra 26 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Wesley Wright↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 9 -0.1 1.4 -1.6
Cam Bedrosian 23 pre-arb 34 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Adam Wilk 27 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Conor Gillaspie↔ CHW 27 FA-elig 17 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Drew Butera↔ KCR 31 arb 10 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Mat Latos↔ LAD 27 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.8 -1.2
Kaleb Cowart 23 – 34 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Kirk Nieuwenhuis↔ NYM 27 arb 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Drew Rucinski 26 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
David Murphy↔ CLE 33 FA-elig 48 -0.2 2.2 -2.9
Taylor Featherston 25 – 101 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Vinnie Pestano 30 arb 19 -0.3 1.1 -2.1
Shane Victorino↔ BOS 34 FA-elig 38 -0.3 7.0 -8.0
Marc Krauss↔ DET 27 – 11 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Ryan Jackson 27 pre-arb 22 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Kyle Kubitza 24 pre-arb 19 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Grant Green 27 pre-arb 21 -0.5 0.1 -1.7
David DeJesus↔ TBR 35 FA-elig 30 -0.7 1.3 -3.6
Matt Joyce 30 FA-elig 93 -1.2 4.8 -8.5

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.