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

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.3
WAB — wins above budget
+1.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
91–71 (0.562)
record · made playoffs
-88M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.7
roster fWAR
$228.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yasmani Grandal 27 arb 126 6.3 2.8 +17.6
Clayton Kershaw 28 FA-elig 23 6.3 34.6 -14.3
Corey Seager 22 pre-arb 157 5.2 0.5 +16.5
Justin Turner 31 FA-elig 151 4.4 5.1 +9.0
Joc Pederson 24 pre-arb 137 3.3 0.5 +10.2
Kenley Jansen 28 FA-elig 72 3.1 10.7 -0.7
Kenta Maeda 28 pre-arb 35 2.8 3.1 +5.9
Julio Urías 19 – 18 1.6 0.3 +4.8
Yasiel Puig 25 arb 104 1.5 7.2 -2.4
Andrew Toles 24 – 48 1.3 0.2 +4.1
Alex Wood 25 arb 15 1.2 0.5 +3.4
Chase Utley 37 FA-elig 138 1.2 7.0 -3.2
Howie Kendrick 32 FA-elig 146 1.1 10.0 -6.5
Rich Hill↔ OAK 36 FA-elig 6 1.1 1.8 +1.6
Adrián González 34 FA-elig 156 1.0 21.9 -18.7
Ross Stripling 26 – 22 0.9 0.3 +2.6
Scott Kazmir 32 FA-elig 27 0.8 12.7 -10.1
Joe Blanton 35 FA-elig 75 0.7 4.0 -1.6
Adam Liberatore 29 pre-arb 58 0.7 0.5 +1.8
Trayce Thompson 25 pre-arb 80 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Brandon McCarthy 32 FA-elig 10 0.6 12.5 -10.7
Luis Avilán 26 arb 27 0.5 1.4 +0.2
Grant Dayton 28 – 25 0.4 0.2 +1.2
Pedro Báez 28 pre-arb 73 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Chris Taylor↔ SEA 25 pre-arb 34 0.2 0.2 +0.6
J.P. Howell 33 FA-elig 64 0.2 6.2 -5.5
Josh Fields↔ HOU 30 arb 22 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Yimi García 25 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Charlie Culberson 27 arb 34 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Josh Ravin 28 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Carlos Frías 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Carlos Ruiz↔ PHI 37 FA-elig 14 0.0 1.9 -1.8
Nick Tepesch 27 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jesse Chavez↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 23 -0.0 1.5 -1.5
Hyun Jin Ryu 29 arb 1 -0.0 7.8 -7.9
Enrique Hernández 24 pre-arb 109 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Bud Norris↔ ATL 31 FA-elig 13 -0.1 0.9 -1.1
Chin-hui Tsao 35 – 2 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Andre Ethier 34 FA-elig 16 -0.1 18.0 -18.2
Louis Coleman 30 arb 61 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Micah Johnson 25 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Rob Segedin 27 pre-arb 40 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Austin Barnes 26 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Zach Walters 26 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
Scott Van Slyke 29 arb 52 -0.2 1.2 -1.9
Brock Stewart 24 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Josh Reddick↔ OAK 29 FA-elig 47 -0.3 2.7 -3.6
Will Venable 33 FA-elig 12 -0.3 0.0 -1.0
Mike Bolsinger 28 – 6 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
A.J. Ellis↔ PHI 35 FA-elig 53 -0.4 3.7 -4.9
José De León 23 – 4 -0.4 – –
Brett Anderson 28 FA-elig 4 -0.4 15.8 -17.0
Chris Hatcher 31 FA-elig 37 -0.4 1.1 -2.3
Casey Fien↔ MIN 32 FA-elig 25 -0.6 1.5 -3.3
Carl Crawford 34 – 30 -0.9 21.6 -24.5

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 54 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.