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President of baseball ops: Andrew Friedman (since 2015) · GM: Brandon Gomes (since 2022)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.6 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+22.6 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
39–22 (0.639)
record
+327M
surplus $M (value/$)
64.4
roster fWAR
$270.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Shohei Ohtani 31 FA-elig 60 10.6 28.2 +70.4
Andy Pages 25 pre-arb 61 7.2 0.8 +65.8
Max Muncy 35 FA-elig 55 5.8 10.0 +43.5
Freddie Freeman 36 FA-elig 58 4.1 22.9 +15.1
Justin Wrobleski 25 pre-arb 10 3.8 0.8 +34.2
Yoshinobu Yamamoto 27 pre-arb 11 3.6 20.3 +13.3
Teoscar Hernández 33 FA-elig 51 3.1 14.7 +13.9
Will Smith 31 FA-elig 49 2.9 12.9 +14.2
Tyler Glasnow 32 FA-elig 7 2.6 32.5 -8.2
Will Klein 26 pre-arb 20 2.1 0.8 +18.9
Emmet Sheehan 26 pre-arb 11 2.0 0.8 +17.7
Dalton Rushing 25 pre-arb 32 2.0 0.8 +17.6
Kyle Tucker 29 FA-elig 58 1.9 1.0 +16.9
Alex Vesia 30 arb 26 1.8 3.5 +13.3
Tanner Scott 31 FA-elig 27 1.5 12.6 +0.9
Alex Freeland 24 pre-arb 38 1.3 0.2 +11.5
Hyeseong Kim 27 pre-arb 43 1.1 4.1 +6.6
Jack Dreyer 27 pre-arb 21 1.0 0.8 +8.9
Alex Call 31 pre-arb 30 1.0 1.6 +8.0
Mookie Betts 33 FA-elig 27 0.9 25.2 -16.7
Enrique Hernández 34 FA-elig 2 0.8 4.5 +3.1
Kyle Hurt 28 pre-arb 19 0.8 0.7 +6.4
Roki Sasaki 24 pre-arb 10 0.7 0.8 +6.1
Edgardo Henriquez 24 pre-arb 21 0.7 0.8 +5.3
Miguel Rojas 37 FA-elig 37 0.6 5.5 +0.2
Blake Snell 33 FA-elig 1 0.3 27.9 -25.0
Blake Treinen 38 FA-elig 23 0.2 13.5 -11.4
Paul Gervase 26 pre-arb 2 0.2 0.6 +1.5
Brock Stewart 34 arb 2 0.2 1.3 +0.4
Ryan Ward 28 – 4 0.2 0.0 +1.7
Chayce McDermott 27 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.8
Eric Lauer↔ TOR 31 arb 2 0.1 0.6 +0.0
Jake Eder 27 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.1 +0.5
Charlie Barnes↔ CHC 30 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Jonathan Hernández 29 arb 4 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Edwin Díaz 32 FA-elig 7 -0.1 17.0 -18.4
Santiago Espinal 31 arb 28 -0.3 0.8 -3.2
Ben Casparius 27 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.8 -3.5
Wyatt Mills 31 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.0 -3.0

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 LAD
Andre Ethier200524.4
Yasmani Grandal201420.6
Chris Taylor201616.9
Gary Sheffield199814.7
Tim Belcher198713.3
Pedro Guerrero197413.1
Eddie Murray198810.8
Hanley Ramírez20128.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Sid Fernandez198327.5
Yordan Álvarez201626.7
Carlos Santana200821.6
Juan Guzmán198721.1
Gary Sheffield200212.1
Mike Devereaux198911.7
Charlie Hough198011.2
Sid Bream198510.3
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.