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GM: Ned Colletti (since 2006)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.3
WAB — wins above budget
+4.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–79 (0.509)
record
-6M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.5
roster fWAR
$101.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Matt Kemp 26 arb 161 8.3 7.1 +13.1
Clayton Kershaw 23 arb 33 7.8 0.5 +18.6
Andre Ethier 29 arb 135 3.0 9.5 -2.2
Chad Billingsley 26 arb 32 2.9 6.3 +0.7
Hiroki Kuroda 36 arb 32 2.8 11.8 -4.9
James Loney 27 arb 158 2.1 4.9 +0.2
Jamey Carroll 37 FA-elig 146 2.1 2.3 +2.8
Ted Lilly 35 FA-elig 34 1.8 8.2 -3.8
Kenley Jansen 23 pre-arb 51 1.6 0.4 +3.5
Tony Gwynn Jr. 28 arb 136 1.6 0.7 +3.1
Casey Blake 37 FA-elig 63 1.0 5.5 -3.1
Matt Guerrier 32 FA-elig 70 0.8 1.5 +0.4
Juan Rivera↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 62 0.7 2.5 -0.7
Rubby De La Rosa 22 – 13 0.7 – –
Aaron Miles 34 FA-elig 136 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Justin Sellers 25 pre-arb 36 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Josh Lindblom 24 – 27 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Jerry Sands 23 pre-arb 61 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Scott Elbert 25 pre-arb 47 0.6 0.4 +1.0
Dee Strange-Gordon 23 – 56 0.6 0.4 +1.0
Javy Guerra 25 – 47 0.6 0.4 +1.0
Dana Eveland 27 – 5 0.5 – –
Rod Barajas 35 FA-elig 98 0.3 3.2 -2.4
A.J. Ellis 30 arb 31 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Blake Hawksworth 28 pre-arb 49 0.2 0.4 +0.0
Trent Oeltjen 28 – 61 0.2 – –
Nathan Eovaldi 21 – 10 0.2 0.1 +0.3
Vicente Padilla 33 FA-elig 9 0.1 2.0 -1.6
Jon Garland 31 FA-elig 9 0.0 5.0 -4.9
Tim Federowicz 23 – 7 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Juan Castro 39 – 7 0.0 – –
Juan Uribe 32 FA-elig 77 0.0 5.3 -5.3
Mike MacDougal 34 FA-elig 69 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Jamie Hoffmann 26 – 2 -0.1 – –
Hector Gimenez 28 arb 4 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
John Ely 25 – 5 -0.1 – –
Xavier Paul↔ PIT 26 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Russell Mitchell 26 – 25 -0.2 – –
Ramon Troncoso 28 arb 18 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Jonathan Broxton 27 FA-elig 14 -0.2 7.0 -7.6
Dioner Navarro 27 FA-elig 64 -0.2 1.0 -1.6
Lance Cormier 30 FA-elig 9 -0.3 1.2 -1.9
Rafael Furcal↔ STL 33 FA-elig 37 -0.3 5.5 -6.2
Jay Gibbons 34 FA-elig 24 -0.3 0.7 -1.4
Hung-Chih Kuo 29 FA-elig 40 -0.3 2.7 -3.5
Marcus Thames 34 FA-elig 36 -0.4 1.0 -2.0
Iván De Jesús Jr. 24 pre-arb 17 -0.5 0.4 -1.6
Eugenio Velez 29 – 34 -0.7 – –

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (83%). 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.