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GM: Fred Claire (since 1988)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.5
WAB — wins above budget
+4.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–66 (0.542)
record · made playoffs
-1M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.6
roster fWAR
$35.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Piazza 26 arb 112 6.0 0.9 +4.8
Hideo Nomo 26 pre-arb 28 4.7 2.1 +2.4
Eric Karros 27 arb 143 4.5 2.4 +1.9
Raul Mondesi 24 pre-arb 139 4.1 0.4 +3.5
Ismael Valdez 21 pre-arb 33 3.4 0.1 +3.2
Delino DeShields 26 arb 127 2.9 3.0 -0.2
Tom Candiotti 38 FA-elig 30 2.6 4.5 -2.0
Ramon Martinez 27 FA-elig 30 2.4 3.9 -1.6
Jose Offerman 26 arb 119 1.8 1.6 +0.1
Tim Wallach 37 FA-elig 97 1.4 2.0 -0.7
Todd Worrell 35 FA-elig 59 1.3 4.7 -3.4
Pedro Astacio 26 arb 48 1.0 0.4 +0.5
Chad Fonville↔ WSN 24 pre-arb 88 0.7 0.1 +0.6
Dave Hansen 26 arb 100 0.6 0.3 +0.3
Kevin Tapani↔ MIN 31 FA-elig 13 0.6 1.4 -0.8
Willie Banks↔ CHC 26 arb 6 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Mark Guthrie↔ MIN 29 FA-elig 24 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Henry Rodriguez↔ WSN 27 arb 21 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Antonio Osuna 22 pre-arb 39 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Brett Butler↔ NYM 38 FA-elig 39 0.2 0.6 -0.4
John Cummings↔ SEA 26 pre-arb 35 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Tom Prince 30 FA-elig 18 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Rick Parker 32 – 27 0.1 – –
Juan Castro 23 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Mike Busch 26 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Jim Bruske 30 – 9 0.1 – –
Chan Ho Park 22 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Joey Eischen 25 – 17 -0.0 – –
Noe Munoz 27 – 2 -0.0 – –
Chris Gwynn 30 FA-elig 67 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Dick Schofield↔ ANA 32 FA-elig 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Reggie Williams 29 – 15 -0.1 – –
Rob Murphy↔ MIA 35 FA-elig 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Eddie Pye 28 – 7 -0.2 – –
Jeff Treadway↔ WSN 32 FA-elig 17 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Todd Williams 24 – 16 -0.2 – –
Omar Daal 23 pre-arb 28 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Jose Parra↔ MIN 22 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.0 -0.2
Garey Ingram 24 – 44 -0.2 – –
Felix Rodriguez 22 – 11 -0.2 – –
Karim Garcia 19 pre-arb 13 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Carlos Hernandez 28 arb 45 -0.3 0.3 -0.6
Todd Hollandsworth 22 pre-arb 41 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Rudy Seanez 26 FA-elig 37 -0.3 0.3 -0.7
Greg Hansell 24 pre-arb 20 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Mitch Webster 36 FA-elig 54 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Billy Ashley 24 arb 81 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Roger Cedeno 20 pre-arb 40 -0.5 0.1 -0.6
Roberto Kelly↔ WSN 30 FA-elig 112 -0.8 3.1 -3.8

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (82%). 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.