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GM: Perry Minasian (since 2022)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-20.4 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-12.3 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
23–39 (0.371)
record
+64M
surplus $M (value/$)
20.5
roster fWAR
$130.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Trout 34 FA-elig 61 6.3 37.1 +21.2
Reid Detmers 26 arb 12 5.2 2.6 +45.7
José Soriano 27 arb 13 3.6 2.9 +30.9
Oswald Peraza 26 pre-arb 56 3.6 0.8 +32.5
Zach Neto 25 pre-arb 60 2.6 4.2 +19.8
Walbert Ureña 22 – 10 1.8 0.8 +15.7
Yusei Kikuchi 35 FA-elig 7 1.7 21.2 -5.4
Wade Meckler 26 pre-arb 11 1.2 0.5 +10.2
Nolan Schanuel 24 pre-arb 49 1.1 0.8 +9.3
Jack Kochanowicz 25 pre-arb 12 1.1 0.8 +9.1
Jose Siri 30 arb 15 1.0 1.1 +7.8
Sam Bachman 26 pre-arb 21 0.9 0.8 +7.5
Brent Suter 36 FA-elig 23 0.7 1.2 +5.3
Vaughn Grissom 25 pre-arb 39 0.6 0.8 +4.7
Chase Silseth 26 pre-arb 26 0.4 0.8 +3.0
Tayler Saucedo 33 arb 4 0.3 0.7 +1.8
Travis d'Arnaud 37 FA-elig 14 0.3 6.0 -3.6
Bryce Teodosio 27 pre-arb 34 0.2 0.2 +1.3
Donovan Walton 32 – 10 0.2 – –
Sam Aldegheri 24 – 3 0.2 – –
Jordan Romano 33 – 11 0.1 2.0 -1.4
Kirby Yates 39 FA-elig 9 0.1 5.0 -4.5
Adam Frazier 34 FA-elig 40 -0.1 1.8 -2.3
Omar Martinez 24 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -1.1
Nick Madrigal 29 arb 5 -0.2 0.5 -2.7
Alek Manoah 28 arb 3 -0.3 1.9 -4.7
Shaun Anderson 31 pre-arb 9 -0.4 0.1 -3.6
Ryan Zeferjahn 28 pre-arb 22 -0.4 0.8 -4.4
Jo Adell 27 arb 62 -0.5 5.2 -9.4
Jorge Soler 34 FA-elig 57 -0.5 13.0 -17.2
Mitch Farris 25 pre-arb 10 -0.5 0.7 -4.9
José Fermin 24 pre-arb 16 -0.5 0.6 -5.2
George Klassen 24 – 2 -0.5 0.0 -4.9
Grayson Rodriguez 26 pre-arb 4 -0.6 0.8 -5.9
Ryan Johnson 23 pre-arb 4 -0.6 0.2 -5.9
Nick Sandlin 29 – 8 -0.7 – –
Joey Lucchesi 33 arb 5 -0.7 0.0 -6.8
Sebastián Rivero 27 pre-arb 22 -0.7 0.6 -7.6
Yoán Moncada 31 FA-elig 41 -0.8 4.0 -11.1
Drew Pomeranz 37 FA-elig 20 -1.0 4.0 -12.8
Jeimer Candelario 32 FA-elig 7 -1.1 0.1 -9.9
Logan O'Hoppe 26 arb 39 -1.1 2.6 -12.9
Josh Lowe 28 arb 45 -1.2 2.6 -13.7

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (93%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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.