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President of baseball ops: Andrew Friedman (since 2015) · GM: Brandon Gomes (since 2022)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+20.9
WAB — wins above budget
+20.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
111–51 (0.685)
record · made playoffs
-40M
surplus $M (value/$)
62.4
roster fWAR
$267.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Freddie Freeman 32 FA-elig 159 6.8 27.0 -2.3
Trea Turner 29 FA-elig 160 6.3 21.0 +2.0
Mookie Betts 29 FA-elig 142 6.0 22.9 -1.1
Will Smith 27 pre-arb 137 4.3 0.7 +15.0
Tyler Anderson 32 FA-elig 31 4.0 8.0 +6.8
Clayton Kershaw 34 FA-elig 22 3.9 17.0 -2.9
Julio Urías 25 FA-elig 31 3.2 8.0 +3.8
Tony Gonsolin 28 pre-arb 24 2.7 0.7 +9.2
Gavin Lux 24 pre-arb 129 2.7 0.7 +9.1
Trayce Thompson↔ SDP 31 pre-arb 74 2.7 0.4 +9.4
Justin Turner 37 FA-elig 128 2.3 20.0 -11.6
Evan Phillips 27 pre-arb 64 2.2 0.7 +7.4
Max Muncy 31 FA-elig 136 2.0 13.0 -5.5
Chris Taylor 31 FA-elig 118 1.6 15.0 -9.0
Alex Vesia 26 pre-arb 63 1.5 0.7 +4.8
Cody Bellinger 26 arb 144 1.5 17.0 -11.7
Austin Barnes 32 FA-elig 62 1.3 2.6 +2.2
Chris Martin↔ CHC 36 FA-elig 26 1.2 1.1 +3.3
Andrew Heaney 31 FA-elig 16 1.1 8.5 -4.3
Walker Buehler 27 arb 12 1.0 4.2 -0.6
Craig Kimbrel 34 FA-elig 63 0.9 16.0 -12.8
Brusdar Graterol 23 pre-arb 46 0.8 0.7 +2.4
Daniel Hudson 35 FA-elig 25 0.8 7.0 -4.0
Mitch White↔ TOR 27 – 15 0.7 0.2 +2.4
Yency Almonte 28 pre-arb 33 0.5 0.6 +1.3
Caleb Ferguson 25 arb 37 0.5 0.8 +0.9
James Outman 25 – 4 0.4 0.1 +1.5
Dustin May 24 pre-arb 6 0.3 0.7 +0.3
Jake Lamb↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 25 0.2 0.2 +0.7
Andre Jackson 26 pre-arb 4 0.2 0.1 +0.8
Joey Gallo↔ NYY 28 FA-elig 44 0.2 3.6 -3.0
Edwin Rios 28 pre-arb 27 0.1 0.5 -0.1
David Price 36 FA-elig 40 0.1 32.0 -31.6
Phil Bickford 26 pre-arb 60 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Jake Reed↔ BAL 29 – 5 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Shane Greene↔ NYY 33 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Zach McKinstry↔ CHC 27 – 10 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Blake Treinen 34 FA-elig 5 0.0 8.0 -8.0
Kevin Pillar 33 FA-elig 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Michael Grove 25 – 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Heath Hembree↔ PIT 33 FA-elig 6 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Tommy Kahnle 32 FA-elig 13 -0.0 3.5 -3.6
Garrett Cleavinger↔ TBR 28 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Robbie Erlin 31 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Ryan Pepiot 24 – 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Reyes Moronta↔ ARI 29 – 22 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Tony Wolters 30 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Justin Bruihl 25 pre-arb 24 -0.3 0.3 -1.2
Miguel Vargas 22 – 18 -0.4 0.2 -1.7
Hanser Alberto 29 FA-elig 73 -0.5 1.4 -3.0
Eddy Alvarez 32 pre-arb 14 -0.5 0.1 -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
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.