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GM: Billy Eppler (since 2016)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.3
WAB — wins above budget
-5.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
-59M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.5
roster fWAR
$169.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Trout 26 FA-elig 140 9.4 34.1 -2.0
Andrelton Simmons 28 FA-elig 146 4.3 11.0 +3.8
Shohei Ohtani 23 pre-arb 114 3.8 0.5 +12.4
Andrew Heaney 27 arb 30 2.9 0.8 +9.0
Justin Upton 30 FA-elig 145 2.7 16.0 -6.9
Tyler Skaggs 26 FA-elig 24 2.4 1.9 +6.4
Ian Kinsler↔ BOS 36 FA-elig 91 1.5 7.8 -2.7
David Fletcher 24 – 80 1.5 0.3 +4.8
Jaime Barria 21 – 26 1.4 0.4 +4.3
Félix Peña 28 pre-arb 19 1.4 0.3 +4.3
Martín Maldonado↔ HOU 31 FA-elig 78 1.3 2.6 +1.9
Jose Alvarez 29 arb 76 1.2 1.1 +3.2
Garrett Richards 30 FA-elig 16 1.0 7.3 -3.8
Ty Buttrey 25 – 16 0.8 0.1 +2.6
Matt Shoemaker 31 arb 7 0.7 4.1 -1.9
René Rivera↔ ATL 34 FA-elig 30 0.6 2.5 -0.4
Hansel Robles↔ NYM 27 arb 37 0.6 0.6 +1.3
Justin Anderson 25 – 57 0.5 0.5 +1.3
Taylor Cole 28 pre-arb 18 0.5 0.2 +1.3
José Briceño 25 – 46 0.4 0.3 +1.1
Cam Bedrosian 26 arb 71 0.3 1.1 -0.0
Kole Calhoun 30 FA-elig 137 0.3 8.5 -7.6
Keynan Middleton 24 pre-arb 16 0.2 0.6 +0.2
Ryan Schimpf 30 – 5 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Juan Graterol↔ MIN 29 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Blake Parker 33 FA-elig 67 0.1 1.8 -1.5
Eric Young Jr. 33 – 41 0.0 – –
José Miguel Fernández 30 – 36 0.0 – –
Ian Krol 27 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Osmer Morales 25 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Oliver Drake↔ CLE 31 arb 8 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Miguel Almonte 25 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Blake Wood 32 FA-elig 13 -0.0 1.4 -1.5
Junichi Tazawa↔ MIA 32 FA-elig 9 -0.0 2.0 -2.2
Joe Hudson 27 – 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Nick Tropeano 27 pre-arb 14 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Nolan Fontana 27 – 8 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Jake Jewell 25 – 3 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Noé Ramirez 28 arb 69 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Odrisamer Despaigne↔ MIA 31 arb 8 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Michael Hermosillo 23 – 31 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Chris Young 34 FA-elig 56 -0.1 2.0 -2.4
Williams Jerez 26 – 17 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Jim Johnson 35 FA-elig 62 -0.2 5.0 -5.7
Sherman Johnson 27 – 10 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
John Lamb 27 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Akeel Morris 25 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Zack Cozart 32 FA-elig 58 -0.2 12.7 -13.4
Luke Bard 27 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.5 -1.4
Eduardo Paredes 23 pre-arb 14 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
JC Ramírez 29 arb 2 -0.3 1.9 -3.1
Taylor Ward 24 – 40 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Francisco Arcia 28 – 41 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Parker Bridwell 26 pre-arb 5 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Albert Pujols 38 FA-elig 117 -0.4 27.0 -28.5
Jabari Blash 28 pre-arb 24 -0.6 0.2 -2.1
Deck McGuire↔ TOR 29 pre-arb 17 -0.6 0.1 -2.2
Kaleb Cowart 26 pre-arb 47 -0.7 0.2 -2.7
Luis Valbuena 32 FA-elig 96 -0.8 8.0 -10.7
Jefry Marte 27 arb 90 -0.8 0.6 -3.3

60 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 58 of them (97%). 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.