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GM: Billy Eppler (since 2016)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.9
WAB — wins above budget
-8.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
-60M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.7
roster fWAR
$151.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Trout 25 FA-elig 114 6.8 20.1 +2.8
Andrelton Simmons 27 arb 158 4.8 8.0 +8.1
Martín Maldonado 30 FA-elig 138 3.3 1.7 +9.2
Yusmeiro Petit 32 FA-elig 60 2.1 2.2 +4.7
Blake Parker 32 arb 71 1.5 0.6 +4.7
Cameron Maybin↔ HOU 30 FA-elig 93 1.4 7.3 -2.5
Kole Calhoun 29 arb 155 1.2 6.0 -1.9
C.J. Cron 27 arb 100 1.0 0.6 +2.9
David Hernandez↔ ARI 32 FA-elig 38 1.0 0.3 +2.9
Parker Bridwell 25 pre-arb 21 1.0 0.2 +3.0
JC Ramírez 28 arb 27 0.9 0.6 +2.6
Alex Meyer 27 pre-arb 13 0.9 0.4 +2.7
Garrett Richards 29 FA-elig 6 0.9 6.8 -3.7
Yunel Escobar 34 FA-elig 89 0.8 7.0 -4.2
Tyler Skaggs 25 arb 16 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Eric Young Jr. 32 – 47 0.7 – –
Ricky Nolasco 34 FA-elig 33 0.6 12.0 -9.8
Justin Upton↔ DET 29 FA-elig 27 0.6 3.9 -1.9
Cam Bedrosian 25 arb 48 0.6 0.6 +1.4
Bud Norris 32 FA-elig 60 0.6 1.8 +0.2
Jose Alvarez 28 arb 64 0.4 0.6 +0.6
Luis Valbuena 31 FA-elig 117 0.3 6.5 -5.4
Fernando Salas↔ NYM 32 FA-elig 13 0.3 0.6 +0.3
Ben Revere 29 FA-elig 109 0.3 4.0 -3.1
Daniel Wright 26 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.0 +0.8
Noé Ramirez↔ BOS 27 pre-arb 10 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Kaleb Cowart 25 pre-arb 50 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Matt Shoemaker 30 arb 14 0.2 3.3 -2.7
Blake Wood↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 17 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Keynan Middleton 23 – 64 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Jesse Chavez 33 FA-elig 38 0.1 5.8 -5.5
Eduardo Paredes 22 pre-arb 18 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Huston Street 33 FA-elig 4 0.1 9.0 -8.8
Andrew Bailey 33 FA-elig 4 0.1 1.0 -0.8
César Puello↔ TBR 26 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Juan Graterol 28 pre-arb 48 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Damien Magnifico 26 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jason Gurka 29 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Nick Franklin↔ MIL 26 pre-arb 13 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Mike Morin↔ KCR 26 – 10 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Carlos Pérez 26 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
José A. Váldez↔ SDP 27 – 1 -0.1 – –
Deolis Guerra 28 pre-arb 19 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Shane Robinson 32 arb 20 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Cliff Pennington 33 FA-elig 87 -0.2 2.2 -2.8
Kirby Yates↔ SDP 30 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Brooks Pounders 26 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.3 -1.1
Ramón Flores 25 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Nolan Fontana 26 pre-arb 12 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Troy Scribner 25 – 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.3
Brandon Phillips↔ ATL 36 FA-elig 24 -0.3 2.4 -3.6
Jefry Marte 26 pre-arb 45 -0.5 0.5 -2.3
Andrew Heaney 26 arb 5 -0.7 0.5 -3.1
Danny Espinosa↔ SEA 30 FA-elig 77 -1.0 4.5 -7.9
Albert Pujols 37 FA-elig 149 -1.8 26.0 -32.1

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 53 of them (96%). 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.