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President of baseball ops: Andrew Friedman (since 2015) · GM: Farhan Zaidi (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.3
WAB — wins above budget
+7.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–70 (0.568)
record · made playoffs
-68M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.7
roster fWAR
$221.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Clayton Kershaw 27 FA-elig 34 8.6 32.6 -5.6
Zack Greinke 31 FA-elig 32 6.0 25.0 -6.1
Yasmani Grandal 26 arb 115 5.2 0.7 +15.6
Justin Turner 30 FA-elig 126 3.9 2.5 +9.9
Joc Pederson 23 pre-arb 151 3.1 0.5 +9.3
Adrián González 33 FA-elig 156 3.0 21.9 -12.5
Andre Ethier 33 FA-elig 142 2.8 18.0 -9.1
Howie Kendrick 31 FA-elig 117 2.4 9.5 -2.0
Kenley Jansen 27 arb 54 1.6 7.4 -2.3
Enrique Hernández 23 pre-arb 76 1.5 0.4 +4.4
Corey Seager 21 – 27 1.5 0.1 +4.7
Yasiel Puig 24 pre-arb 79 1.5 6.2 -1.4
Brett Anderson 27 FA-elig 31 1.4 10.0 -5.5
Pedro Báez 27 pre-arb 52 1.0 0.5 +2.5
Scott Van Slyke 28 arb 96 0.9 0.5 +2.4
Juan Nicasio 28 arb 54 0.7 2.3 +0.1
Yimi García 24 pre-arb 59 0.7 0.5 +1.8
Justin Ruggiano↔ SEA 33 FA-elig 21 0.6 0.9 +1.1
Alex Wood↔ ATL 24 pre-arb 12 0.6 0.2 +1.8
Juan Uribe↔ ATL 36 FA-elig 29 0.6 1.6 +0.3
A.J. Ellis 34 FA-elig 63 0.5 4.2 -2.6
Jimmy Rollins 36 FA-elig 144 0.4 11.0 -9.6
Mike Bolsinger 27 pre-arb 21 0.4 0.2 +1.1
Scott Schebler 24 – 19 0.4 0.1 +1.1
Carl Crawford 33 FA-elig 69 0.4 21.4 -20.2
Chris Hatcher 30 arb 49 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Ian Thomas↔ ATL 28 pre-arb 9 0.3 0.0 +1.0
Chase Utley↔ PHI 36 FA-elig 34 0.3 4.8 -3.9
Mat Latos↔ ANA 27 FA-elig 6 0.3 2.4 -1.5
J.P. Howell 32 FA-elig 65 0.3 4.0 -3.2
Paco Rodríguez 24 arb 18 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Adam Liberatore 28 pre-arb 39 0.1 0.3 +0.1
Carlos Frías 25 pre-arb 17 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Ronald Torreyes 22 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Austin Barnes 25 – 20 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Luis Avilán↔ ATL 25 arb 23 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Matt West 26 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Danny Coulombe↔ OAK 25 – 5 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Zach Lee 23 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Chris Heisey 30 arb 33 -0.1 2.2 -2.4
Brandon Beachy 28 arb 2 -0.1 2.8 -3.0
Sergio Santos↔ NYY 31 – 12 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Darwin Barney↔ TOR 29 arb 2 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
José Peraza 21 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Alex Guerrero 28 pre-arb 106 -0.1 6.5 -6.8
Alberto Callaspo↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 60 -0.1 1.9 -2.3
David Huff 30 arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Joe Wieland 25 arb 2 -0.2 0.6 -1.1
Chin-hui Tsao 34 – 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Eric Surkamp 27 pre-arb 1 -0.3 0.0 -0.8
Josh Ravin 27 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Jim Johnson↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 23 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Scott Baker 33 FA-elig 2 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Brandon McCarthy 31 FA-elig 4 -0.4 12.5 -13.6
Joel Peralta 39 FA-elig 33 -0.4 2.5 -3.7

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
Gary Sheffield199814.7
Tim Belcher198713.3
Pedro Guerrero197413.1
Chris Taylor201611.9
Eddie Murray198810.8
Hanley Ramírez20128.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Sid Fernandez198327.5
Yordan Álvarez201625.9
Carlos Santana200821.6
Juan Guzmán198721.1
Mike Devereaux198912.4
Gary Sheffield200212.1
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.