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GM: Fred Claire (since 1988)

1990 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.7
WAB — wins above budget
+0.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
-4M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.6
roster fWAR
$20.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Eddie Murray 34 FA-elig 155 5.9 2.5 +0.1
Ramon Martinez 22 pre-arb 33 4.7 0.1 +1.9
Kal Daniels 26 arb 130 4.4 0.6 +1.4
Stan Javier↔ OAK 26 FA-elig 104 3.5 0.3 +1.3
Mike Scioscia 31 FA-elig 135 3.0 1.2 +0.1
Fernando Valenzuela 29 FA-elig 35 2.8 2.0 -0.8
Kirk Gibson 33 FA-elig 89 2.6 1.3 -0.2
Mike Sharperson 28 arb 129 2.1 0.1 +0.8
Lenny Harris 25 pre-arb 137 2.1 0.1 +0.8
Mike Morgan 30 FA-elig 33 1.9 0.7 +0.2
Jim Neidlinger 25 pre-arb 12 1.6 0.1 +0.6
Tim Belcher 28 arb 24 1.6 0.5 +0.3
Hubie Brooks 33 FA-elig 153 1.5 1.4 -0.7
Tim Crews 29 arb 66 1.0 0.2 +0.2
Mike Hartley 28 pre-arb 32 0.8 0.1 +0.3
Jay Howell 34 FA-elig 45 0.8 1.0 -0.7
Juan Samuel 29 FA-elig 143 0.7 1.4 -1.0
Orel Hershiser 31 FA-elig 4 0.6 2.0 -1.7
Willie Randolph↔ OAK 35 FA-elig 26 0.5 0.2 +0.0
Rick Dempsey 40 FA-elig 62 0.4 0.5 -0.3
Ray Searage 35 FA-elig 29 0.3 0.3 -0.2
Dave Walsh 29 pre-arb 20 0.2 0.1 +0.0
Chris Gwynn 25 arb 101 0.2 0.1 -0.0
Darren Holmes 24 – 14 0.1 – –
Carlos Hernandez 23 – 10 0.1 – –
Barry Lyons↔ NYM 30 arb 3 0.1 0.0 +0.0
John Wetteland 23 pre-arb 22 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jose Vizcaino 22 – 37 0.0 – –
Mike Munoz 24 – 8 0.0 – –
Darrin Fletcher↔ PHI 23 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Brian Traxler 22 – 9 -0.0 – –
John Shelby↔ DET 32 FA-elig 25 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Dave Hansen 21 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Pat Perry 31 arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Mike Maddux 28 arb 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Jim Gott 30 FA-elig 50 -0.2 0.3 -0.4
Jim Poole 24 – 16 -0.2 – –
Luis Lopez 25 – 6 -0.2 – –
Jose Gonzalez 25 arb 106 -0.3 0.1 -0.3
Terry Wells 26 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.1 -0.2
Jeff Hamilton 26 arb 7 -0.3 0.5 -0.6
Don Aase 35 FA-elig 32 -0.4 0.3 -0.5
Dennis Cook↔ PHI 27 pre-arb 5 -0.6 0.0 -0.3
Jose Offerman 21 pre-arb 29 -0.8 0.1 -0.5
Mickey Hatcher 35 FA-elig 85 -1.0 0.5 -0.9
Alfredo Griffin 32 FA-elig 141 -2.2 1.0 -2.0

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (85%). 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 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.