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Dodgers LAD

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

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+17.3
WAB — wins above budget
+12.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
104–58 (0.642)
record · won pennant
-15M
surplus $M (value/$)
51.5
roster fWAR
$188.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Justin Turner 32 FA-elig 130 5.6 13.0 +6.0
Corey Seager 23 pre-arb 145 5.0 0.6 +16.4
Clayton Kershaw 29 FA-elig 27 4.7 35.6 -19.9
Chris Taylor 26 pre-arb 140 4.5 0.5 +14.8
Cody Bellinger 21 – 132 4.0 0.5 +13.0
Yasmani Grandal 28 arb 129 3.9 5.5 +7.7
Austin Barnes 27 pre-arb 102 3.7 0.5 +11.9
Kenley Jansen 29 FA-elig 65 3.6 10.8 +1.2
Alex Wood 26 arb 27 2.8 2.8 +6.7
Yasiel Puig 26 arb 152 2.6 8.2 +0.5
Rich Hill 37 FA-elig 25 2.2 12.7 -5.1
Brandon McCarthy 33 FA-elig 19 2.1 11.5 -4.3
Kenta Maeda 29 pre-arb 30 1.7 3.1 +2.5
Brandon Morrow 32 FA-elig 45 1.6 1.2 +4.1
Yu Darvish↔ TEX 30 arb 9 0.9 3.2 -0.1
Enrique Hernández 25 arb 140 0.8 0.6 +2.1
Hyun Jin Ryu 30 arb 25 0.7 7.8 -5.3
Chase Utley 38 FA-elig 127 0.7 2.0 +0.2
Luis Avilán 27 arb 61 0.6 1.5 +0.5
Logan Forsythe 30 FA-elig 119 0.6 7.0 -5.0
Tony Cingrani↔ CIN 27 arb 22 0.5 0.9 +0.9
Ross Stripling 27 pre-arb 51 0.5 0.5 +1.0
Andrew Toles 25 pre-arb 31 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Josh Fields 31 arb 57 0.3 1.1 -0.1
Joc Pederson 25 arb 102 0.2 0.6 +0.3
Edward Paredes 30 – 10 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Pedro Báez 29 arb 66 0.1 0.6 -0.1
Tony Watson↔ PIT 32 FA-elig 24 0.1 1.9 -1.5
Julio Urías 20 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Chris Hatcher↔ OAK 32 FA-elig 26 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Adam Liberatore 30 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Fabio Castillo 28 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Kyle Farmer 26 – 20 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tim Locastro 24 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Andre Ethier 35 FA-elig 22 -0.0 17.5 -17.6
Charlie Culberson 28 arb 15 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Brock Stewart 25 pre-arb 17 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
Alex Verdugo 21 – 15 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
O'Koyea Dickson 27 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Franklin Gutierrez 34 FA-elig 35 -0.1 2.6 -2.9
Mike Freeman↔ CHC 29 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Brett Eibner 28 – 17 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Rob Segedin 28 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.4 -0.9
Walker Buehler 22 – 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Curtis Granderson↔ NYM 36 FA-elig 36 -0.2 3.7 -4.3
Wilmer Font 27 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Josh Ravin 29 pre-arb 14 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Scott Van Slyke 30 arb 29 -0.3 1.3 -2.3
Grant Dayton 29 pre-arb 29 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Sergio Romo↔ TBR 34 FA-elig 30 -0.4 1.6 -2.8
Trayce Thompson 26 pre-arb 27 -0.5 0.2 -1.8
Adrián González 35 FA-elig 71 -0.5 22.4 -24.1

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.