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GM: Perry Minasian (since 2022)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.7
WAB — wins above budget
-11.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
-115M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.8
roster fWAR
$220.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Shohei Ohtani 28 arb 135 8.9 30.0 +5.2
Mike Trout 31 FA-elig 82 2.9 37.1 -25.4
Brandon Drury 30 FA-elig 125 2.7 8.5 +2.3
Reid Detmers 23 pre-arb 28 2.4 0.7 +8.9
Patrick Sandoval 26 arb 28 2.3 2.8 +6.2
Mickey Moniak 25 pre-arb 85 1.8 0.5 +6.7
Griffin Canning 27 arb 24 1.8 0.8 +6.1
Luis Rengifo 26 arb 126 1.7 2.3 +4.4
Taylor Ward 29 arb 97 1.4 2.8 +2.9
Zach Neto 22 – 84 1.1 0.7 +3.8
Tyler Anderson 33 FA-elig 27 1.1 13.0 -8.8
Hunter Renfroe↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 126 1.0 10.7 -6.7
Carlos Estévez 30 FA-elig 63 0.9 6.8 -3.3
Gio Urshela 31 FA-elig 62 0.5 8.4 -6.3
Matt Moore↔ CLE 34 FA-elig 41 0.5 6.2 -4.3
Matt Thaiss 28 arb 95 0.5 0.7 +1.1
Andrew Wantz 27 pre-arb 27 0.4 0.7 +1.0
Kenny Rosenberg 27 pre-arb 7 0.4 0.2 +1.3
José Soriano 24 pre-arb 38 0.4 0.5 +1.0
Chris Devenski↔ TBR 32 FA-elig 29 0.3 0.5 +0.8
Tucker Davidson↔ KCR 27 arb 18 0.3 0.4 +0.9
Logan O'Hoppe 23 pre-arb 51 0.3 0.7 +0.5
Reynaldo López↔ CHW 29 FA-elig 13 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Michael Stefanic 27 pre-arb 25 0.2 0.2 +0.7
José Quijada 27 arb 10 0.2 0.8 +0.1
Anthony Rendon 33 FA-elig 43 0.2 38.6 -37.7
Jo Adell 24 pre-arb 17 0.2 0.4 +0.4
Chase Silseth 23 pre-arb 16 0.2 0.4 +0.3
Aaron Loup 35 FA-elig 55 0.2 7.5 -6.9
Sam Bachman 23 – 11 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Carson Fulmer 29 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Nolan Schanuel 21 – 29 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Randal Grichuk↔ COL 31 FA-elig 54 0.0 4.7 -4.7
Jake Lamb 32 FA-elig 19 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Kelvin Cáceres 23 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Victor Mederos 22 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Chris Okey 28 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Davis Daniel 26 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.6 -0.8
Jhonathan Díaz 26 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
David Fletcher 29 arb 33 -0.1 6.0 -6.2
Austin Warren 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Ben Joyce 22 – 12 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Livan Soto 23 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Gerardo Reyes 30 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Zack Weiss↔ BOS 31 – 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Kevin Padlo 26 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Reyes Moronta 30 arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Kolton Ingram 26 – 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Dominic Leone↔ NYM 31 – 11 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Andrew Velazquez 28 – 54 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Brett Phillips 29 FA-elig 40 -0.2 1.2 -1.8
Chad Wallach 31 arb 65 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Ryan Tepera↔ STL 35 FA-elig 10 -0.2 5.8 -6.5
Trey Cabbage 26 – 22 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Jimmy Herget 29 pre-arb 29 -0.2 0.3 -1.2
Lucas Giolito↔ CHW 28 FA-elig 6 -0.3 1.9 -3.0
Jacob Webb↔ BAL 29 – 29 -0.3 0.2 -1.3
Kyren Paris 21 – 15 -0.3 0.1 -1.3
C.J. Cron↔ COL 33 FA-elig 15 -0.3 1.5 -2.8
José Marte 27 pre-arb 10 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
José Suarez 25 arb 11 -0.5 0.8 -2.8
Mike Moustakas↔ COL 34 FA-elig 65 -0.6 0.4 -2.7
Jaime Barria 26 arb 34 -0.7 1.1 -4.0
Jordyn Adams 23 – 17 -0.8 0.1 -3.4
Jared Walsh 29 arb 39 -0.9 2.6 -6.1
Eduardo Escobar↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 60 -1.0 5.7 -9.8

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.