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

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.7
WAB — wins above budget
+8.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
98–64 (0.605)
record · World Series champions
-63M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.3
roster fWAR
$264.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Shohei Ohtani 29 FA-elig 159 9.0 28.2 +9.1
Mookie Betts 31 FA-elig 116 4.3 30.4 -12.5
Freddie Freeman 34 FA-elig 147 3.9 27.0 -10.6
Tyler Glasnow 30 FA-elig 22 3.9 17.5 -1.3
Teoscar Hernández 31 FA-elig 154 3.4 23.5 -9.3
Yoshinobu Yamamoto 25 pre-arb 18 2.9 9.2 +2.8
Miguel Rojas 35 FA-elig 103 2.8 5.8 +5.8
Will Smith 29 arb 128 2.6 16.6 -5.7
Max Muncy 33 FA-elig 73 2.3 9.5 +0.1
Gavin Stone 25 pre-arb 25 2.1 0.7 +8.2
Gavin Lux 26 arb 139 1.4 1.2 +4.8
Andy Pages 23 pre-arb 116 1.3 0.7 +4.5
Alex Vesia 28 arb 67 1.1 1.0 +3.7
Blake Treinen 36 FA-elig 50 1.0 1.0 +3.2
Evan Phillips 29 FA-elig 61 0.9 4.0 -0.3
Tommy Edman 29 arb 37 0.8 2.5 +1.0
Jack Flaherty↔ DET 28 FA-elig 10 0.8 5.0 -1.7
Enrique Hernández 32 FA-elig 126 0.7 4.0 -1.2
Clayton Kershaw 36 FA-elig 7 0.7 5.0 -2.3
Michael Kopech↔ CHW 28 FA-elig 24 0.6 1.1 +1.6
Anthony Banda 30 arb 48 0.6 0.5 +1.9
Landon Knack 26 pre-arb 15 0.5 0.7 +1.5
Jason Heyward↔ HOU 34 FA-elig 63 0.5 6.5 -4.4
Austin Barnes 34 FA-elig 54 0.5 3.5 -1.4
James Paxton↔ BOS 35 FA-elig 18 0.5 6.0 -4.0
River Ryan 25 – 4 0.4 0.3 +1.4
Michael Grove 27 pre-arb 39 0.4 0.8 +0.9
Ryan Brasier 36 FA-elig 29 0.4 4.5 -2.9
Daniel Hudson 37 FA-elig 65 0.3 2.0 -0.9
Ben Casparius 25 – 3 0.3 0.0 +1.0
Nick Ahmed↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 17 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Miguel Vargas↔ CHW 24 pre-arb 30 0.2 0.3 +0.4
Edgardo Henriquez 22 – 3 0.2 0.0 +0.6
Brusdar Graterol 25 arb 7 0.2 2.7 -2.1
Kyle Hurt 26 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.7 -0.2
Amed Rosario↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 5 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Brent Honeywell↔ PIT 29 pre-arb 18 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Hunter Feduccia 27 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Nabil Crismatt 29 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Yohan Ramírez↔ BAL 29 – 27 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Nick Ramirez 34 arb 8 0.1 0.7 -0.5
Ricky Vanasco↔ DET 25 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.5 -0.3
Eduardo Salazar↔ WSN 26 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Zach Logue 28 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Joe Kelly 36 FA-elig 35 -0.0 8.0 -8.1
Kevin Kiermaier↔ TOR 34 FA-elig 34 -0.1 3.1 -3.4
Dinelson Lamet 31 – 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Walker Buehler 29 FA-elig 16 -0.1 8.0 -8.4
Gus Varland↔ CHW 27 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Connor Brogdon↔ PHI 29 arb 1 -0.1 0.2 -0.8
Taylor Trammell↔ NYY 26 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
J.P. Feyereisen 31 arb 10 -0.2 0.8 -1.6
Cavan Biggio↔ ATL 29 arb 30 -0.2 1.6 -2.4
Elieser Hernández↔ MIL 29 – 5 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Michael Petersen↔ MIA 30 – 11 -0.2 0.1 -1.1
Ryan Yarbrough↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 32 -0.3 2.8 -4.0
Justin Wrobleski 23 – 8 -0.3 0.1 -1.5
James Outman 27 pre-arb 53 -0.4 0.8 -2.2
Chris Taylor 33 FA-elig 87 -0.6 13.0 -15.4
Bobby Miller 25 pre-arb 13 -0.9 0.8 -4.3

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.