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GM: Ned Colletti (since 2006)

2007 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.5
WAB — wins above budget
-1.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–80 (0.506)
record
-45M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.8
roster fWAR
$115.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Russell Martin 24 pre-arb 151 5.5 0.4 +11.3
Brad Penny 29 FA-elig 33 5.1 7.8 +3.1
Derek Lowe 34 FA-elig 33 3.0 9.5 -3.1
Jeff Kent 39 FA-elig 136 2.8 9.8 -3.8
Juan Pierre 29 FA-elig 162 2.4 7.5 -2.4
Takashi Saito 37 pre-arb 63 2.0 1.0 +3.4
Chad Billingsley 22 pre-arb 43 2.0 0.4 +3.9
Jonathan Broxton 23 pre-arb 83 1.9 0.4 +3.8
James Loney 23 – 96 1.8 – –
Randy Wolf 30 FA-elig 20 1.7 7.5 -3.9
Matt Kemp 22 pre-arb 98 1.6 0.4 +3.1
Andre Ethier 25 pre-arb 153 1.6 0.4 +3.1
Mark Hendrickson 33 arb 39 1.4 2.9 +0.0
Rafael Furcal 29 FA-elig 138 1.4 13.7 -10.8
Joe Beimel 30 FA-elig 83 1.0 0.9 +1.2
Wilson Betemit↔ NYY 25 FA-elig 84 0.9 0.3 +1.6
Tony Abreu 22 – 59 0.6 – –
Luis Gonzalez 39 FA-elig 139 0.6 7.2 -6.0
Hung-Chih Kuo 25 pre-arb 8 0.5 0.4 +0.8
Brett Tomko↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 34 0.5 3.4 -2.3
David Wells↔ SDP 44 FA-elig 7 0.5 0.7 +0.4
Delwyn Young 25 – 19 0.5 – –
Rudy Seanez 38 FA-elig 73 0.5 0.7 +0.3
Eric Stults 27 – 13 0.5 – –
Wilson Valdez 29 arb 41 0.4 0.4 +0.4
Jason Schmidt 34 FA-elig 6 0.2 15.7 -15.2
Andy LaRoche 23 – 35 0.2 – –
Chin-Lung Hu 23 – 12 0.2 – –
Chin-hui Tsao 26 – 21 0.1 – –
Eric Hull 27 – 5 0.1 – –
Yhency Brazoban 27 arb 4 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Scott Proctor↔ NYY 30 arb 31 0.0 0.2 -0.2
D.J. Houlton 27 – 18 -0.0 – –
Mark Sweeney↔ SFG 37 FA-elig 30 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Chad Moeller↔ CIN 32 FA-elig 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jon Meloan 22 – 5 -0.1 – –
Marlon Anderson↔ NYM 33 FA-elig 23 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Roberto Hernandez↔ CLE 42 FA-elig 22 -0.1 1.5 -1.8
Brady Clark↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 47 -0.3 2.7 -3.3
Mike Lieberthal 35 FA-elig 38 -0.3 1.1 -1.8
Olmedo Saenz 36 FA-elig 92 -0.3 1.0 -1.7
Shea Hillenbrand↔ ANA 31 FA-elig 20 -0.6 1.6 -2.9
Esteban Loaiza↔ OAK 35 FA-elig 5 -0.7 5.4 -6.9
Ramon Martinez 34 FA-elig 67 -0.9 0.8 -2.8
Nomar Garciaparra 33 FA-elig 121 -1.0 8.5 -10.6

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (78%). 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.