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GM: Ned Colletti (since 2006)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.6
WAB — wins above budget
+10.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · made playoffs
-0M
surplus $M (value/$)
46.6
roster fWAR
$109.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Matt Kemp 24 arb 159 4.9 0.5 +11.1
Casey Blake 35 FA-elig 139 4.5 5.0 +5.8
Clayton Kershaw 21 pre-arb 31 4.0 0.4 +9.1
Russell Martin 26 arb 143 3.6 3.9 +4.7
Randy Wolf 32 FA-elig 35 3.3 5.0 +3.0
Chad Billingsley 24 arb 33 3.1 0.5 +6.9
Rafael Furcal 31 FA-elig 150 3.0 7.5 -0.4
Orlando Hudson 31 FA-elig 149 2.8 3.4 +3.2
Jonathan Broxton 25 arb 73 2.6 1.8 +4.3
Manny Ramirez 37 FA-elig 104 2.5 23.9 -18.0
Andre Ethier 27 arb 160 2.2 3.1 +2.1
Hiroki Kuroda 34 pre-arb 21 2.2 12.4 -7.3
Juan Pierre 31 FA-elig 145 1.9 10.0 -5.5
James Loney 25 arb 158 1.1 0.5 +2.3
Ronnie Belliard↔ WSN 34 FA-elig 24 1.0 0.4 +2.0
Vicente Padilla↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 8 0.8 3.7 -1.7
Brad Ausmus 40 FA-elig 36 0.7 1.0 +0.6
Ramon Troncoso 26 pre-arb 73 0.5 0.4 +0.9
Jeff Weaver 32 – 28 0.5 – –
Eric Milton 33 – 6 0.5 – –
Ronald Belisario 26 – 69 0.5 – –
Jon Garland↔ ARI 29 FA-elig 6 0.5 1.1 -0.0
Eric Stults 29 arb 11 0.5 0.4 +0.7
George Sherrill↔ BAL 32 arb 30 0.4 1.1 -0.2
Hung-Chih Kuo 27 arb 35 0.4 0.4 +0.5
Mitch Jones 31 – 8 0.1 – –
Guillermo Mota 35 FA-elig 61 0.1 2.4 -2.1
Tony Abreu 24 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Jamie Hoffmann 24 – 14 0.0 – –
Xavier Paul 24 – 11 0.0 – –
Jason Schmidt 36 FA-elig 5 0.0 15.2 -15.2
Chin-Lung Hu 25 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Claudio Vargas↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 8 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Scott Elbert 23 – 19 -0.0 – –
Doug Mientkiewicz 35 – 20 -0.0 – –
Cory Wade 26 pre-arb 27 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
James McDonald 24 pre-arb 45 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
A.J. Ellis 28 – 8 -0.1 – –
Jason Repko 28 arb 10 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Blake DeWitt 23 pre-arb 31 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Travis Schlichting 24 – 2 -0.1 – –
Jim Thome↔ CHW 38 FA-elig 17 -0.1 1.8 -2.1
Juan Castro 37 – 57 -0.1 – –
Charlie Haeger 25 – 6 -0.2 – –
Brent Leach 26 – 38 -0.2 – –
Mark Loretta 37 FA-elig 107 -0.3 1.2 -1.8
Will Ohman 31 – 21 -0.4 – –

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 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.