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GM: Fred Claire (since 1988)

1996 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.8
WAB — wins above budget
-2.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · made playoffs
-8M
surplus $M (value/$)
33.1
roster fWAR
$36.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Piazza 27 arb 148 6.6 2.7 +2.8
Hideo Nomo 27 pre-arb 33 4.3 0.6 +3.0
Ismael Valdez 22 pre-arb 33 4.3 0.4 +3.2
Raul Mondesi 25 arb 157 4.2 0.9 +2.6
Eric Karros 28 arb 154 2.6 3.1 -1.0
Greg Gagne 34 FA-elig 128 2.3 2.6 -0.7
Pedro Astacio 27 arb 35 2.2 1.1 +0.7
Ramon Martinez 28 FA-elig 30 1.8 4.8 -3.3
Todd Worrell 36 FA-elig 72 1.5 4.0 -2.7
Antonio Osuna 23 pre-arb 73 1.2 0.1 +0.9
Todd Hollandsworth 23 pre-arb 149 1.2 0.1 +0.9
Mark Guthrie 30 FA-elig 66 1.1 0.9 +0.0
Scott Radinsky 28 FA-elig 58 1.1 0.6 +0.3
Chan Ho Park 23 pre-arb 48 0.9 0.1 +0.6
Tom Candiotti 39 FA-elig 28 0.8 3.0 -2.3
Roger Cedeno 21 pre-arb 86 0.6 0.1 +0.4
Billy Ashley 25 arb 71 0.5 0.2 +0.2
Tom Prince 31 FA-elig 40 0.4 0.3 -0.0
Chad Curtis↔ DET 27 arb 43 0.3 0.6 -0.4
Darren Dreifort 24 pre-arb 20 0.2 0.1 +0.0
Oreste Marrero 26 – 10 0.1 – –
Mike Blowers 31 FA-elig 92 0.1 2.3 -2.2
Carlos Hernandez 29 FA-elig 13 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Rick Parker 33 – 16 0.1 – –
Jim Bruske 31 – 11 0.0 – –
Karim Garcia 20 – 1 -0.0 – –
Dave Clark↔ PIT 33 FA-elig 15 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
John Cummings↔ DET 27 arb 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Darren Hall 31 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Wilton Guerrero 21 – 5 -0.0 – –
Wayne Kirby↔ CLE 32 arb 65 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Joey Eischen↔ DET 26 pre-arb 28 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Tim Wallach↔ ANA 38 FA-elig 45 -0.2 0.2 -0.3
Mike Busch 27 – 38 -0.2 – –
Brett Butler 39 FA-elig 34 -0.3 2.0 -2.3
Chad Fonville 25 pre-arb 103 -0.4 0.2 -0.5
Milt Thompson↔ COL 37 FA-elig 48 -0.6 0.2 -0.7
Dave Hansen 27 FA-elig 80 -0.6 0.4 -0.9
Juan Castro 24 pre-arb 70 -0.7 0.1 -0.7
Delino DeShields 27 FA-elig 154 -1.7 3.0 -4.5

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 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.