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GM: Ned Colletti (since 2006)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.9
WAB — wins above budget
-2.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
-43M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.7
roster fWAR
$126.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Clayton Kershaw 24 arb 34 6.4 7.5 +9.0
Matt Kemp 27 FA-elig 106 3.8 10.0 -0.2
Chad Billingsley 27 FA-elig 25 3.0 9.0 -1.2
Andre Ethier 30 FA-elig 149 3.0 10.9 -3.3
A.J. Ellis 31 arb 133 2.6 0.5 +6.3
Chris Capuano 33 FA-elig 34 2.6 3.0 +3.7
Mark Ellis 35 FA-elig 110 2.3 2.5 +3.3
Luis Alfonso Cruz 28 – 78 2.2 – –
Kenley Jansen 24 pre-arb 65 2.1 0.5 +4.9
Aaron Harang 34 FA-elig 31 1.8 3.0 +1.6
Hanley Ramirez↔ MIA 28 FA-elig 64 1.5 6.1 -2.3
Jerry Hairston Jr. 36 FA-elig 78 1.0 2.2 +0.4
Ronald Belisario 29 arb 68 0.9 0.5 +1.9
Joe Blanton↔ PHI 31 FA-elig 10 0.7 3.4 -1.6
Adrián González↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 36 0.7 4.9 -3.2
Ted Lilly 36 FA-elig 8 0.7 10.5 -8.8
Shane Victorino↔ PHI 31 FA-elig 53 0.6 3.3 -1.7
Nathan Eovaldi↔ MIA 22 – 10 0.6 0.2 +1.2
Jamey Wright 37 FA-elig 66 0.5 0.9 +0.4
Javy Guerra 26 pre-arb 45 0.5 0.5 +0.7
Brandon League↔ SEA 29 FA-elig 28 0.5 1.9 -0.7
Josh Beckett↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 7 0.5 4.2 -3.1
Adam Kennedy 36 FA-elig 86 0.5 0.8 +0.4
Nick Punto↔ BOS 34 FA-elig 22 0.4 0.4 +0.8
Stephen Fife 25 – 5 0.4 0.5 +0.4
Justin Sellers 26 pre-arb 19 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Bobby Abreu↔ ANA 38 FA-elig 92 0.2 8.3 -7.8
Scott Elbert 26 arb 43 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Elian Herrera 27 – 67 0.1 – –
Todd Coffey 31 FA-elig 23 0.1 1.0 -0.8
Paco Rodríguez 21 – 11 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Juan Uribe 33 FA-elig 66 0.1 8.0 -7.9
Iván De Jesús Jr.↔ BOS 25 pre-arb 23 0.0 0.4 -0.2
Shawn Tolleson 24 – 40 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Tim Federowicz 24 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Mike MacDougal 35 FA-elig 7 -0.0 0.7 -0.7
Rubby De La Rosa 23 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Jerry Sands 24 – 9 -0.0 – –
Josh Wall 25 – 7 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
John Ely 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Randy Choate↔ MIA 36 FA-elig 36 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Alex Castellanos 25 – 16 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Scott Van Slyke 25 – 27 -0.2 – –
Matt Guerrier 33 FA-elig 16 -0.4 4.8 -5.7
Josh Lindblom↔ PHI 25 pre-arb 48 -0.4 0.3 -1.4
Tony Gwynn Jr. 29 FA-elig 103 -0.5 0.8 -2.2
Matt Treanor 36 FA-elig 36 -0.6 0.8 -2.5
James Loney↔ BOS 28 FA-elig 114 -0.7 5.0 -6.9
Juan Rivera 33 FA-elig 109 -0.9 4.0 -6.4
Dee Strange-Gordon 24 pre-arb 87 -1.3 0.5 -3.9

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 46 of them (92%). 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.