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GM: Kevin Malone (since 1999)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.2
WAB — wins above budget
-0.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
-31M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.2
roster fWAR
$88.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Gary Sheffield 31 FA-elig 141 6.6 9.9 -0.6
Kevin Brown 35 FA-elig 33 6.4 15.7 -6.6
Chan Ho Park 27 FA-elig 34 4.5 3.9 +2.5
Adrian Beltré 21 pre-arb 138 3.9 1.0 +4.5
Shawn Green 27 FA-elig 162 3.2 9.4 -4.9
Todd Hundley 31 FA-elig 90 2.6 6.1 -2.4
Chad Kreuter 35 FA-elig 80 2.6 0.5 +3.1
Darren Dreifort 28 FA-elig 32 2.0 3.7 -0.9
Eric Karros 32 FA-elig 155 1.5 5.4 -3.2
Matt Herges 30 pre-arb 59 1.4 0.2 +1.8
Mark Grudzielanek 30 arb 148 1.4 3.0 -1.1
Dave Hansen 31 FA-elig 102 1.4 0.5 +1.4
Todd Hollandsworth↔ COL 27 arb 81 1.0 0.9 +0.5
Terry Adams 27 arb 66 0.8 1.4 -0.3
Tom Goodwin↔ COL 31 FA-elig 56 0.6 1.3 -0.4
Antonio Osuna 27 arb 46 0.6 0.2 +0.6
Ismael Valdez↔ CHC 26 FA-elig 9 0.6 2.3 -1.5
Jeff Shaw 33 FA-elig 60 0.5 5.4 -4.6
Paul Lo Duca 28 – 34 0.5 – –
Chris Donnels 34 – 27 0.4 – –
Kevin Elster 35 FA-elig 80 0.3 0.3 +0.2
Bruce Aven↔ PIT 28 arb 9 0.2 0.0 +0.3
Onan Masaoka 22 pre-arb 29 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Al Reyes↔ BAL 30 arb 6 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Luke Prokopec 22 – 6 0.1 – –
Carlos Perez 29 arb 32 0.1 5.3 -5.2
Hiram Bocachica 24 – 8 0.1 – –
Geronimo Berroa 35 – 24 0.1 – –
Jamie Arnold↔ CHC 26 – 2 -0.0 – –
Adam Melhuse↔ COL 28 – 1 -0.0 – –
Mike Judd 25 – 1 -0.0 – –
Mike Fetters 35 FA-elig 51 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Trever Miller↔ PHI 27 arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Alan Mills↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 18 -0.1 1.0 -1.1
Shawn Gilbert 35 – 15 -0.1 – –
Gregg Olson 33 FA-elig 13 -0.1 1.2 -1.4
Eric Gagne 24 – 20 -0.1 – –
Jeff Branson 33 – 18 -0.1 – –
Mike Metcalfe 27 – 4 -0.2 – –
Jeff Williams 28 – 7 -0.2 – –
Jose Vizcaino↔ NYY 32 FA-elig 40 -0.2 1.2 -1.5
Devon White 37 FA-elig 47 -0.3 4.0 -4.5
Alex Cora 24 – 109 -0.3 – –
F.P. Santangelo 32 arb 81 -0.4 0.8 -1.3
Jim Leyritz↔ NYY 36 FA-elig 41 -0.6 0.6 -1.5
Orel Hershiser 41 FA-elig 10 -0.6 2.0 -2.9

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (70%). 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.