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Dodgers LAD

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President of baseball ops: Andrew Friedman (since 2015)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+28.3 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+21.2 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
43–17 (0.717)
record · World Series champions
-20M
surplus $M (value/$)
22.6
roster fWAR
$185.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mookie Betts 27 FA-elig 55 2.7 27.0 -7.0
Corey Seager 26 arb 52 2.3 7.6 +9.3
Tony Gonsolin 26 pre-arb 9 1.9 0.1 +13.5
Chris Taylor 29 FA-elig 56 1.7 5.6 +6.8
Cody Bellinger 24 arb 56 1.6 11.5 +0.2
Clayton Kershaw 32 FA-elig 10 1.4 31.0 -20.5
Justin Turner 35 FA-elig 42 1.3 20.0 -10.2
Julio Urías 23 arb 11 1.3 1.0 +8.4
AJ Pollock 32 FA-elig 55 1.2 15.0 -6.5
Will Smith 25 pre-arb 37 1.1 0.2 +7.5
Austin Barnes 30 arb 29 0.8 1.1 +4.7
Edwin Rios 26 pre-arb 32 0.7 0.2 +5.1
Jake McGee 33 FA-elig 24 0.7 0.2 +4.7
Victor González 24 – 15 0.6 0.1 +4.4
Walker Buehler 25 pre-arb 8 0.6 0.2 +3.9
Dylan Floro 29 pre-arb 25 0.6 0.2 +3.9
Kenley Jansen 32 FA-elig 27 0.6 18.0 -13.9
Blake Treinen 32 FA-elig 27 0.5 10.0 -6.3
Dustin May 22 pre-arb 12 0.5 0.2 +3.4
Brusdar Graterol 21 pre-arb 23 0.4 0.2 +2.4
Adam Kolarek 31 pre-arb 21 0.4 0.2 +2.4
Caleb Ferguson 23 pre-arb 21 0.3 0.2 +1.7
Enrique Hernández 28 FA-elig 48 0.3 5.9 -4.0
Max Muncy 29 arb 58 0.2 2.5 -0.7
Pedro Báez 32 FA-elig 18 0.1 4.0 -3.1
Joe Kelly 32 FA-elig 12 0.1 8.8 -8.0
Mitch White 25 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.3
Keibert Ruiz 21 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.3
Gavin Lux 22 pre-arb 19 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Zach McKinstry 25 – 4 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Alex Wood 29 FA-elig 9 -0.0 4.0 -4.0
Terrance Gore 29 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Josh Sborz 26 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.4
Matt Beaty 27 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.2 -1.0
Joc Pederson 28 FA-elig 43 -0.1 7.8 -8.8
Dennis Santana 24 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.2 -1.6
Scott Alexander 30 arb 13 -0.2 0.9 -2.5
Ross Stripling↔ TOR 30 arb 7 -0.5 1.2 -4.6

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.