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GM: Billy Eppler (since 2016)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-12.7
WAB — wins above budget
-13.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
72–90 (0.444)
record
-81M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.9
roster fWAR
$160.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Trout 27 FA-elig 134 7.6 17.7 +7.4
David Fletcher 25 pre-arb 154 2.9 0.6 +9.1
Andrelton Simmons 29 FA-elig 103 2.1 13.0 -6.0
Kole Calhoun 31 FA-elig 152 2.1 10.5 -3.6
Tyler Skaggs 27 FA-elig 15 1.9 3.7 +2.6
Hansel Robles 28 arb 71 1.9 1.4 +4.9
Brian Goodwin 28 arb 136 1.8 0.6 +5.4
Tommy La Stella 30 arb 80 1.8 1.4 +4.5
Shohei Ohtani 24 pre-arb 106 1.6 0.7 +4.7
Ty Buttrey 26 pre-arb 72 1.5 0.6 +4.3
Griffin Canning 23 – 18 1.4 0.5 +4.0
Andrew Heaney 28 arb 18 1.3 3.4 +0.8
Noé Ramirez 29 arb 51 1.0 0.6 +2.6
Taylor Cole 29 pre-arb 38 0.9 0.6 +2.5
Cam Bedrosian 27 arb 59 0.9 1.8 +1.0
César Puello↔ MIA 28 – 12 0.7 0.1 +2.3
Félix Peña 29 arb 23 0.6 0.6 +1.5
Luis Rengifo 22 – 108 0.6 0.4 +1.4
Dustin Garneau↔ OAK 31 – 28 0.5 0.1 +1.6
Justin Anderson 26 pre-arb 54 0.3 0.6 +0.5
Patrick Sandoval 22 – 10 0.3 0.2 +0.9
Michael Hermosillo 24 pre-arb 18 0.3 0.6 +0.3
Luke Bard 28 pre-arb 32 0.2 0.6 -0.0
Adalberto Mejía↔ MIN 26 arb 20 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Keynan Middleton 25 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Matt Ramsey 29 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
JC Ramírez 30 FA-elig 5 0.0 1.9 -1.9
John Curtiss 26 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Jonathan Lucroy↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 74 -0.0 2.5 -2.6
Kean Wong↔ TBR 24 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Chris Stratton↔ PIT 28 arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Sam Freeman 32 FA-elig 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Kaleb Cowart 27 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Anthony Bemboom↔ TBR 29 – 22 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Matt Harvey 30 FA-elig 12 -0.2 11.0 -11.7
Jared Walsh 25 – 34 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Matt Thaiss 24 – 53 -0.2 0.3 -1.1
Justin Upton 31 FA-elig 63 -0.3 18.0 -18.8
Max Stassi↔ HOU 28 FA-elig 20 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Miguel Del Pozo 26 – 17 -0.3 – –
José Rodríguez 23 – 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Jarrett Parker 30 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.0 -1.0
Wilfredo Tovar 27 pre-arb 31 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Albert Pujols 39 FA-elig 131 -0.3 28.0 -29.1
Dillon Peters 26 pre-arb 17 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Jake Jewell 26 pre-arb 18 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Nick Tropeano 28 arb 3 -0.4 1.1 -2.3
Taylor Ward 25 pre-arb 20 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Kevan Smith 31 arb 67 -0.4 0.6 -2.0
Jaime Barria 22 pre-arb 19 -0.5 0.3 -1.8
Luis García 32 FA-elig 64 -0.5 1.7 -3.5
Justin Bour 31 arb 52 -0.6 2.5 -4.5
Peter Bourjos 32 FA-elig 26 -0.6 0.1 -2.1
Cody Allen 30 FA-elig 25 -0.6 8.5 -10.6
José Suarez 21 – 19 -0.6 0.3 -2.4
Trevor Cahill 31 FA-elig 38 -0.7 9.0 -11.3
Zack Cozart 33 FA-elig 38 -1.2 12.7 -16.5

57 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 56 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.