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Dodgers LAD

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GM: Ned Colletti (since 2006)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.2
WAB — wins above budget
+2.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–70 (0.568)
record · made playoffs
-106M
surplus $M (value/$)
46.5
roster fWAR
$228.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Clayton Kershaw 25 arb 35 7.8 11.0 +9.9
Hanley Ramirez 29 FA-elig 86 4.9 15.5 -2.3
Zack Greinke 29 FA-elig 29 4.7 19.0 -6.4
Hyun Jin Ryu 26 pre-arb 30 4.3 3.3 +8.1
Yasiel Puig 22 pre-arb 104 3.9 3.7 +6.9
Juan Uribe 34 FA-elig 132 3.8 8.0 +2.1
Andre Ethier 31 FA-elig 142 3.4 13.5 -4.5
Kenley Jansen 25 arb 75 2.4 0.5 +6.0
Adrián González 31 FA-elig 157 2.4 21.0 -14.7
Carl Crawford 31 FA-elig 116 2.2 20.0 -14.1
A.J. Ellis 32 arb 115 2.2 2.0 +3.9
Ricky Nolasco↔ MIA 30 FA-elig 16 1.9 5.4 -0.3
Mark Ellis 36 FA-elig 126 1.5 5.2 -1.2
Nick Punto 35 FA-elig 116 1.5 1.5 +2.6
Chris Capuano 34 FA-elig 24 1.1 6.0 -3.0
Matt Kemp 28 FA-elig 73 1.0 20.0 -17.2
Paco Rodríguez 22 pre-arb 76 0.9 0.5 +1.9
J.P. Howell 30 FA-elig 67 0.8 2.9 -0.7
Scott Van Slyke 26 – 53 0.7 – –
Brian Wilson 31 arb 18 0.4 1.0 +0.0
Ronald Belisario 30 arb 77 0.3 1.4 -0.8
Stephen Fife 26 pre-arb 12 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Chris Withrow 24 pre-arb 26 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Josh Beckett 33 FA-elig 8 0.1 15.8 -15.5
Ramon Hernandez 37 FA-elig 17 0.1 3.2 -3.0
Edinson Volquez↔ SDP 29 FA-elig 6 0.1 1.0 -0.9
José Domínguez 22 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Tim Federowicz 25 pre-arb 56 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Shawn Tolleson 25 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Carlos Marmol↔ CHC 30 FA-elig 21 -0.0 4.0 -4.0
Chad Billingsley 28 FA-elig 2 -0.0 11.0 -11.0
Javy Guerra 27 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Dee Strange-Gordon 25 pre-arb 38 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Michael Young↔ PHI 36 FA-elig 21 -0.1 2.3 -2.4
Drew Butera↔ MIN 29 arb 4 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Elian Herrera 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Matt Guerrier↔ CHC 34 FA-elig 34 -0.1 3.3 -3.6
Ted Lilly 37 FA-elig 5 -0.1 12.0 -12.4
Onelki Garcia 23 – 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Alex Castellanos 26 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Nick Buss 26 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Josh Wall 26 – 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Justin Sellers 27 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.5 -1.3
Peter Moylan 34 arb 14 -0.3 0.3 -1.3
Brandon League 30 FA-elig 58 -0.7 4.5 -6.3
Matt Magill 23 – 6 -0.8 0.1 -2.1
Luis Alfonso Cruz↔ NYY 29 arb 45 -0.8 0.4 -2.5
Skip Schumaker 33 FA-elig 125 -0.9 1.5 -3.9
Jerry Hairston Jr. 37 FA-elig 96 -1.2 3.8 -7.1

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (98%). 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.