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GM: Billy Eppler (since 2016)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-16.3 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-3.6 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
26–34 (0.433)
record
-73M
surplus $M (value/$)
13.0
roster fWAR
$167.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Anthony Rendon 30 FA-elig 52 2.5 26.1 -7.6
Mike Trout 28 FA-elig 53 2.4 37.7 -20.4
Dylan Bundy 27 FA-elig 11 2.1 5.0 +10.1
Andrew Heaney 29 FA-elig 12 1.5 4.3 +6.5
David Fletcher 26 pre-arb 49 1.4 0.2 +9.7
Max Stassi 29 FA-elig 31 1.2 0.8 +7.7
Mike Mayers 28 pre-arb 29 1.0 0.2 +7.0
Griffin Canning 24 pre-arb 11 0.9 0.2 +6.2
Jared Walsh 26 pre-arb 32 0.8 0.1 +5.5
Jaime Barria 23 pre-arb 7 0.6 0.1 +4.5
Tommy La Stella↔ OAK 31 FA-elig 28 0.6 1.7 +2.6
Félix Peña 30 pre-arb 25 0.6 0.2 +4.0
Andrelton Simmons 30 FA-elig 30 0.5 15.0 -11.6
Anthony Bemboom 30 pre-arb 21 0.4 0.1 +3.1
Jacob Barnes 30 arb 18 0.4 0.2 +2.9
Matt Andriese 30 arb 16 0.3 0.5 +1.9
Cam Bedrosian 28 FA-elig 11 0.3 2.8 -0.9
Jason Castro↔ SDP 33 FA-elig 18 0.2 4.6 -2.8
Brian Goodwin↔ CIN 29 arb 30 0.2 1.3 -0.2
Elliot Soto 30 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.8
Noé Ramirez 30 arb 21 0.1 0.9 -0.0
Taylor Ward 26 pre-arb 34 0.0 0.2 +0.1
Kyle Keller 27 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jahmai Jones 22 – 3 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Luke Bard 29 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
José Rodríguez 24 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Keynan Middleton 26 arb 13 -0.0 0.8 -1.0
Justin Upton 32 FA-elig 42 -0.0 21.0 -21.2
José Briceño 27 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Albert Pujols 40 FA-elig 39 -0.1 29.0 -29.5
Ty Buttrey 27 pre-arb 27 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
José Quijada 24 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Michael Hermosillo 25 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Dillon Peters 27 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -1.1
Hansel Robles 29 arb 18 -0.1 3.9 -4.9
Matt Thaiss 25 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.1 -1.3
Shohei Ohtani 25 pre-arb 46 -0.2 0.3 -1.5
Patrick Sandoval 23 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.1 -1.4
Franklin Barreto↔ OAK 24 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.0 -1.5
José Suarez 22 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -1.5
Ryan Buchter 33 arb 10 -0.2 0.2 -1.7
Hoby Milner 29 pre-arb 19 -0.4 0.2 -2.9
Luis Rengifo 23 pre-arb 33 -0.6 0.2 -4.8
Julio Teheran 29 FA-elig 10 -0.8 9.0 -14.9
Jo Adell 21 – 38 -1.4 0.2 -10.5

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.