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

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+14.6
WAB — wins above budget
+11.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
100–62 (0.617)
record · made playoffs
-6M
surplus $M (value/$)
49.0
roster fWAR
$200.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Freddie Freeman 33 FA-elig 161 7.7 27.0 +3.5
Mookie Betts 30 FA-elig 152 7.6 25.4 +4.7
James Outman 26 pre-arb 151 3.9 0.7 +14.7
Will Smith 28 arb 126 3.8 5.2 +9.8
Bobby Miller 24 – 22 2.9 0.5 +11.1
Max Muncy 32 FA-elig 135 2.5 13.5 -3.6
Clayton Kershaw 35 FA-elig 24 2.4 20.0 -10.3
J.D. Martinez 35 FA-elig 113 2.3 10.0 -0.7
Jason Heyward 33 FA-elig 124 2.2 0.7 +8.1
Brusdar Graterol 24 arb 68 1.4 1.2 +4.5
Caleb Ferguson 26 arb 68 1.3 1.1 +4.2
Julio Urías 26 FA-elig 21 1.3 14.2 -9.0
Dustin May 25 arb 9 1.3 1.7 +3.3
Evan Phillips 28 arb 62 1.2 1.3 +3.7
Chris Taylor 32 FA-elig 117 1.2 15.0 -10.1
Ryan Brasier↔ BOS 35 FA-elig 39 1.1 1.3 +3.1
Michael Grove 26 pre-arb 18 0.8 0.7 +2.5
Alex Vesia 27 arb 56 0.7 0.8 +2.1
Miguel Rojas 34 FA-elig 125 0.6 4.2 -2.0
Shelby Miller 32 FA-elig 36 0.5 1.5 +0.7
Emmet Sheehan 23 – 13 0.5 0.3 +1.8
Ryan Pepiot 25 pre-arb 8 0.4 0.6 +1.1
Tony Gonsolin 29 arb 20 0.4 3.2 -1.5
Victor González 27 pre-arb 34 0.4 0.4 +1.1
Amed Rosario↔ CLE 27 FA-elig 48 0.3 2.6 -1.3
Joe Kelly↔ CHW 35 FA-elig 11 0.3 2.4 -1.0
Jonny DeLuca 24 – 24 0.3 0.3 +0.7
Phil Bickford↔ NYM 27 arb 36 0.2 0.4 +0.4
Gus Varland↔ MIL 26 – 8 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Ryan Yarbrough↔ KCR 31 arb 11 0.2 1.3 -0.6
Enrique Hernández↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 54 0.2 3.9 -3.2
Nick Robertson↔ BOS 24 – 9 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Kolten Wong↔ SEA 32 FA-elig 20 0.2 2.3 -1.7
Yency Almonte 29 arb 49 0.1 1.5 -0.9
Justin Bruihl↔ COL 26 – 20 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Austin Wynns↔ COL 32 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Noah Syndergaard↔ CLE 30 FA-elig 12 0.1 8.7 -8.2
Tayler Scott↔ BOS 31 – 6 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Adam Kolarek↔ NYM 34 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Trayce Thompson↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 36 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Tyson Miller↔ MIL 27 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Kyle Hurt 25 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Daniel Hudson 36 FA-elig 3 0.1 6.5 -6.3
Tyler Cyr 30 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jake Marisnick↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 4 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Bryan Hudson 26 – 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Miguel Vargas 23 pre-arb 81 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Wander Suero 31 arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Jake Reed 30 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Andre Jackson↔ PIT 27 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Lance Lynn↔ CHW 36 FA-elig 11 -0.1 6.4 -6.9
Luke Williams↔ ATL 26 – 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Dylan Covey↔ PHI 31 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Yonny Hernández 25 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
David Peralta 35 FA-elig 133 -0.3 6.5 -7.7
Gavin Stone 24 – 8 -0.4 0.1 -1.8
Michael Busch 25 – 27 -0.6 0.2 -2.4
Austin Barnes 33 FA-elig 59 -0.7 3.5 -6.3

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.