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Dodgers LAD

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

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.2
WAB — wins above budget
+16.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–71 (0.564)
record · won pennant
+15M
surplus $M (value/$)
54.0
roster fWAR
$169.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yasmani Grandal 29 FA-elig 140 5.3 7.9 +10.0
Max Muncy 27 pre-arb 137 4.3 0.5 +14.3
Justin Turner 33 FA-elig 103 4.1 12.0 +2.1
Clayton Kershaw 30 FA-elig 27 4.0 35.6 -22.1
Cody Bellinger 22 pre-arb 162 3.5 0.6 +11.4
Chris Taylor 27 arb 155 3.5 0.6 +11.4
Walker Buehler 23 pre-arb 24 3.2 0.5 +10.5
Manny Machado↔ BAL 25 FA-elig 66 2.7 6.5 +2.8
Enrique Hernández 26 arb 145 2.6 1.6 +7.4
Yasiel Puig 27 arb 125 2.3 9.2 -1.3
Kenta Maeda 30 pre-arb 41 2.3 3.1 +4.7
Hyun Jin Ryu 31 arb 16 2.3 7.8 -0.0
Alex Wood 27 arb 33 2.1 6.0 +1.0
Ross Stripling 28 pre-arb 36 2.0 0.6 +6.3
Matt Kemp 33 FA-elig 146 2.0 21.8 -14.9
Joc Pederson 26 arb 148 1.8 2.6 +3.5
Austin Barnes 28 arb 100 1.5 0.6 +4.7
Rich Hill 38 FA-elig 25 1.5 16.7 -11.7
Pedro Báez 30 arb 55 0.7 1.5 +1.0
David Freese↔ PIT 35 FA-elig 19 0.6 0.7 +1.4
Dylan Floro↔ CIN 27 pre-arb 29 0.6 0.1 +1.8
Tony Cingrani 28 FA-elig 30 0.5 2.3 -0.5
Corey Seager 24 arb 26 0.4 0.6 +0.7
Kenley Jansen 30 FA-elig 69 0.3 11.3 -10.2
Josh Fields 32 arb 45 0.3 2.2 -1.1
Scott Alexander 28 arb 73 0.3 0.6 +0.5
Alex Verdugo 22 pre-arb 37 0.3 0.1 +0.7
Caleb Ferguson 21 – 30 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Ryan Madson↔ WSN 37 FA-elig 9 0.2 1.2 -0.5
Kyle Farmer 27 pre-arb 39 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Dennis Santana 22 – 2 0.1 0.4 +0.1
Tim Locastro 25 pre-arb 18 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Julio Urías 21 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Pat Venditte 33 pre-arb 15 0.1 0.2 +0.0
JT Chargois 27 pre-arb 39 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Chase Utley 39 FA-elig 87 0.0 1.0 -0.8
Erik Goeddel↔ SEA 29 pre-arb 26 0.0 0.3 -0.2
John Axford↔ TOR 35 FA-elig 5 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Zac Rosscup 30 pre-arb 17 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Brian Dozier↔ MIN 31 FA-elig 47 -0.0 2.8 -2.9
Daniel Corcino 27 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Rocky Gale 30 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Zach Neal 29 – 1 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Adam Liberatore 31 – 17 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Andrew Toles 26 pre-arb 17 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Daniel Hudson 31 FA-elig 40 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Edward Paredes 31 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Breyvic Valera↔ BAL 26 – 20 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Brock Stewart 26 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Logan Forsythe↔ MIN 31 FA-elig 70 -0.4 5.2 -6.6
Yimi García 27 arb 25 -0.4 0.6 -2.1
Wilmer Font↔ OAK 28 FA-elig 6 -0.5 0.2 -1.8

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.