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GM: Billy Eppler (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.1
WAB — wins above budget
-9.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-43M
surplus $M (value/$)
25.4
roster fWAR
$126.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Trout 24 arb 159 8.6 16.1 +11.9
Matt Shoemaker 29 arb 27 3.5 0.5 +10.8
Kole Calhoun 28 arb 157 3.1 3.4 +6.7
Andrelton Simmons 26 arb 124 2.9 6.0 +3.4
Yunel Escobar 33 FA-elig 132 1.5 7.0 -2.0
Jhoulys Chacín↔ ATL 28 arb 29 1.5 0.7 +4.0
Ricky Nolasco↔ MIN 33 FA-elig 11 1.1 4.1 -0.5
C.J. Cron 26 pre-arb 116 1.0 0.5 +2.8
Cam Bedrosian 24 pre-arb 45 1.0 0.5 +2.7
Albert Pujols 36 FA-elig 152 1.0 25.0 -21.9
Jefry Marte 25 pre-arb 88 0.8 0.4 +2.3
Jose Alvarez 27 arb 64 0.8 0.5 +2.1
Garrett Richards 28 arb 6 0.8 6.4 -3.9
Tyler Skaggs 24 arb 10 0.8 0.5 +1.9
Héctor Santiago↔ MIN 28 arb 22 0.7 3.3 -1.0
Johnny Giavotella 28 arb 99 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Mike Morin 25 pre-arb 60 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Geovany Soto 33 FA-elig 26 0.5 2.8 -1.1
Jett Bandy 26 pre-arb 70 0.4 0.4 +1.1
Deolis Guerra 27 pre-arb 44 0.4 0.4 +0.9
Alex Meyer↔ MIN 26 pre-arb 5 0.4 0.1 +1.1
Cliff Pennington 32 FA-elig 74 0.2 1.5 -0.9
Nick Tropeano 25 pre-arb 13 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Andrew Bailey↔ PHI 32 arb 12 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Cody Ege↔ MIA 25 – 13 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Rafael Ortega 25 pre-arb 66 0.1 0.2 -0.0
JC Ramírez↔ CIN 27 pre-arb 43 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Juan Graterol 27 – 9 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Andrew Heaney 25 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Jered Weaver 33 FA-elig 31 0.0 20.0 -20.0
Shane Robinson 31 arb 65 -0.0 0.4 -0.6
Daniel Wright↔ CIN 25 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Joe Smith↔ CHC 32 FA-elig 38 -0.1 3.7 -3.9
Al Alburquerque 30 arb 2 -0.1 1.1 -1.4
Gregorio Petit 31 pre-arb 89 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Fernando Salas↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 58 -0.1 1.9 -2.2
Todd Cunningham 27 arb 20 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Brendan Ryan 34 FA-elig 17 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Javy Guerra 30 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Craig Gentry 32 FA-elig 14 -0.2 1.0 -1.7
José A. Váldez 26 – 25 -0.3 – –
Carlos Pérez 25 pre-arb 87 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Cory Rasmus 28 arb 19 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
David Huff 31 – 2 -0.4 0.0 -1.3
Greg Mahle 23 – 24 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Nick Buss 29 pre-arb 36 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
A.J. Achter 27 pre-arb 27 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Brett Oberholtzer↔ PHI 26 arb 11 -0.5 0.2 -1.7
Ji Man Choi 25 pre-arb 54 -0.6 0.7 -2.5
Huston Street 32 FA-elig 26 -0.6 8.0 -9.8
Daniel Nava↔ KCR 33 FA-elig 45 -0.6 1.1 -3.1
Tim Lincecum 32 FA-elig 9 -0.7 2.5 -4.8
Kaleb Cowart 24 pre-arb 31 -0.8 0.1 -2.8

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 52 of them (98%). 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.