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GM: Tommy Lasorda (since 1998)

1998 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.3
WAB — wins above budget
-8.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record
-26M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.7
roster fWAR
$58.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Darren Dreifort 26 arb 33 4.5 0.7 +4.2
Chan Ho Park 25 arb 34 4.0 0.7 +3.7
Gary Sheffield↔ MIA 29 FA-elig 90 3.6 10.3 -6.4
Ismael Valdez 24 arb 27 2.4 2.8 -0.2
Eric Karros 30 FA-elig 139 2.3 4.5 -2.0
Raul Mondesi 27 arb 148 2.2 5.5 -3.1
Eric Young Sr. 31 FA-elig 117 2.1 4.5 -2.2
Ramon Martinez 30 FA-elig 15 2.0 4.8 -2.6
Brian Bohanon↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 14 1.6 0.1 +1.6
Matt Luke↔ CLE 27 pre-arb 102 1.3 0.2 +1.2
Charles Johnson↔ MIA 26 arb 102 1.1 2.5 -1.3
Dave Mlicki↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 20 1.0 0.8 +0.3
Trenidad Hubbard 34 arb 94 1.0 0.2 +0.9
Mike Piazza↔ MIA 29 FA-elig 37 0.9 2.0 -1.0
Hideo Nomo↔ NYM 29 arb 12 0.6 1.2 -0.5
Carlos Perez↔ WSN 27 arb 11 0.6 0.5 +0.1
Scott Radinsky 30 FA-elig 62 0.6 0.9 -0.3
Mark Guthrie 32 FA-elig 53 0.5 1.6 -1.1
Dennys Reyes↔ CIN 21 pre-arb 11 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Todd Zeile↔ MIA 32 FA-elig 40 0.4 0.8 -0.4
Jim Bruske↔ NYY 33 arb 35 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Antonio Osuna 25 arb 54 0.3 0.5 -0.1
Jose Vizcaino 30 FA-elig 67 0.3 3.0 -2.7
Mike Devereaux 35 FA-elig 9 0.2 0.2 -0.1
Adrian Beltré 19 pre-arb 77 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Greg McMichael↔ NYM 31 arb 12 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Jeff Kubenka 23 – 6 0.1 – –
Tom Prince 33 FA-elig 37 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Paul Lo Duca 26 – 6 0.1 – –
Angel Pena 23 – 6 0.0 – –
Tripp Cromer III 30 arb 6 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Mike Metcalfe 25 – 4 0.0 – –
Roger Cedeno 23 arb 105 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Jeff Shaw↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 34 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Will Brunson↔ DET 28 – 2 -0.0 – –
Manuel Barrios↔ MIA 23 – 1 -0.0 – –
Gary Rath 25 – 3 -0.0 – –
Wilton Guerrero↔ WSN 23 pre-arb 64 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Eric Weaver 24 – 7 -0.1 – –
Sean Maloney 27 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Paul Konerko↔ CIN 22 pre-arb 49 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Damon Hollins↔ ATL 24 – 5 -0.1 – –
Darren Hall 33 arb 11 -0.1 0.7 -0.8
Todd Hollandsworth 25 arb 55 -0.1 0.7 -0.8
Frank Lankford 27 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Alex Cora 22 – 29 -0.2 – –
Brad Clontz↔ NYM 27 – 18 -0.3 – –
Mike Judd 23 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Thomas Howard 33 FA-elig 47 -0.4 0.4 -0.8
Mark Grudzielanek↔ WSN 28 arb 51 -0.6 0.1 -0.7
Jim Eisenreich↔ MIA 39 FA-elig 75 -0.8 1.0 -1.9
Juan Castro 26 arb 89 -0.9 0.2 -1.2
Bobby Bonilla↔ MIA 35 FA-elig 72 -0.9 4.2 -5.2

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (79%). 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.