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Dodgers LAD

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President of baseball ops: Andrew Friedman (since 2015)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+20.2
WAB — wins above budget
+22.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
106–56 (0.654)
record · made playoffs
+22M
surplus $M (value/$)
60.0
roster fWAR
$173.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Cody Bellinger 23 pre-arb 156 7.8 0.6 +24.8
Hyun Jin Ryu 32 FA-elig 30 5.3 17.9 -0.6
Walker Buehler 24 pre-arb 30 5.1 0.6 +16.0
Max Muncy 28 arb 141 4.4 0.6 +13.8
Justin Turner 34 FA-elig 135 3.9 19.0 -6.2
Corey Seager 25 arb 134 3.6 4.0 +7.7
Clayton Kershaw 31 FA-elig 29 3.3 31.0 -20.3
Kenta Maeda 31 arb 41 3.1 3.1 +7.1
Joc Pederson 27 arb 149 2.8 5.0 +4.3
Alex Verdugo 23 pre-arb 106 2.2 0.6 +6.5
Chris Taylor 28 arb 124 2.1 3.5 +3.4
Ross Stripling 29 arb 32 1.9 0.6 +5.7
Will Smith 24 – 54 1.9 0.2 +5.9
Julio Urías 22 arb 37 1.7 0.6 +4.9
David Freese 36 FA-elig 79 1.7 4.5 +1.0
Pedro Báez 31 arb 71 1.4 2.1 +2.5
Kenley Jansen 31 FA-elig 62 1.2 19.3 -15.3
Russell Martin 36 FA-elig 83 1.1 20.0 -16.5
Rich Hill 39 FA-elig 13 1.0 18.7 -15.3
Dustin May 21 – 14 0.9 0.2 +2.8
Enrique Hernández 27 arb 130 0.8 3.7 -1.1
Tony Gonsolin 25 – 11 0.8 0.1 +2.5
Dylan Floro 28 arb 50 0.6 0.6 +1.5
Austin Barnes 29 arb 75 0.6 0.6 +1.4
AJ Pollock 31 FA-elig 86 0.6 4.0 -2.1
Matt Beaty 26 – 99 0.4 0.4 +1.0
Joe Kelly 31 FA-elig 55 0.4 3.3 -2.0
Edwin Rios 25 – 28 0.4 0.1 +1.1
Gavin Lux 21 – 23 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Kyle Garlick 27 – 30 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Kristopher Negrón↔ SEA 33 – 30 0.2 – –
Adam Kolarek↔ TBR 30 pre-arb 27 0.2 0.2 +0.4
JT Chargois 28 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Casey Sadler↔ TBR 28 pre-arb 24 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Travis d'Arnaud↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Brock Stewart↔ TOR 27 arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jaime Schultz 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Caleb Ferguson 22 pre-arb 46 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Dennis Santana 23 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Josh Sborz 25 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Zac Rosscup↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 7 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Scott Alexander 29 arb 28 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Rocky Gale 31 – 5 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Yimi García 28 arb 64 -0.3 0.7 -1.6
Jedd Gyorko↔ STL 30 FA-elig 24 -0.3 5.0 -6.0
Tyler White↔ HOU 28 arb 12 -0.5 0.1 -1.7

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 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.