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Tony Reagins

Born Mar 11, 1967 · Indio, CA · age 59

General manager for the Angels (2008–2011).

4 seasons with salary-era data across 1 stint. All figures are franchise-level outcomes during the tenure, not solely attributable to one executive.

Overview

Titles0
Pennants0
Playoffs2
Record363–285
Win %0.560
-0.3GM WAR — wins above a replacement GM (org-adjusted, shrunk; per season) ±6.185th/195 execs
7.8Depth — 2+ WAR regulars per season (the breadth that drives TAB, not stars)30th/195 execs
-5.1Dead WAR — WAR/yr bled by sub-replacement players (closer to 0 = better)90th/195 execs
39%Dead money — payroll on <0.5-WAR players (lower = better)133rd/195 execs
$30MCheap-talent surplus — $/yr of value from cost-controlled (pre-arb/arb) players above their pay; the selection engine, and the stickiest GM skill we track49th/195 execs
$18MDrafted surplus — cheap-talent surplus from his own draftees (the develop-from-the-draft engine)24th/195 execs
$2MTraded-for surplus — cheap-talent surplus from cost-controlled players he acquired via trade104th/195 execs
$11MInt'l surplus — cheap-talent surplus from his own international signees4th/195 execs
-7.4TAB — talent above budget — roster-construction alpha (talent your budget bought above expectation), tenure total100th/195 execs
+20.6WAB — realized wins (TAB + the non-repeatable luck of converting talent to wins)33rd/195 execs
3.20Acquisition Leverage — playoff pts per acquired WAR, graded once in the year each deal's wins arrive (the repeatable decision skill)37th/195 execs
-153Roster surplus $M150th/195 execs

Tenure breakdown

TeamRoleYearsSzns WAB WAB/yr TAB WAR surp HG Trade FA R5 AcqLev W-L% POPenWS Surp $M
▸ Angels GM 2008–2011 4 +20.6 +5.16 -7.4 -64.4 +124.6 -28.8 -33.1 +0.4 3.20 0.560 2–– -153
Career total (1985+ data) 4 +20.6 -7.4 -64.4 +124.6 -28.8 -33.1 +0.4 3.20 0.560 2– – -153

Roster Construction

How the roster was sourced

by valueby volume

Share of acquired fWAR by channel vs. league average.

Build channels — net fWAR

Acquired minus surrendered / signed minus walked.

Home-grown (draft/intl)+124.6
Trade-28.8
Free agency-33.1
Rule 5 / minor draft+0.4
Sourcing mix: 78% draft · 18% FA · 4% trade · 0% R5

Roster value distribution — career average — depth vs. stars

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR, averaged across Tony Reagins's seasons. Bars = his rosters; the black line = the league-average player at each slot. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge.

Players acquired — 44 players, by realized fWAR for the franchise (scroll for more)

PlayerPosTeam How Year Szns fWAR WAR/yr Lev
Mike Trout OF ANA Draft 2009 16 +89.7 +5.6 –
Torii Hunter OF ANA Trade 2008 5 +16.1 +3.2 5.1
Kole Calhoun OF ANA Draft 2010 7 +14.2 +2.0 –
Garrett Richards P ANA Draft 2009 7 +11.2 +1.6 –
Dan Haren P ANA Trade 2010 3 +9.5 +3.2 1.2
C. J. Wilson P ANA Free agency 2011 4 +7.6 +1.9 16.2
Matt Shoemaker P ANA Intl FA 2008 6 +7.3 +1.2 –
Alberto Callaspo 2B/3B ANA Trade 2010 4 +6.6 +1.6 –
Albert Pujols 1B ANA Free agency 2011 5 +6.5 +1.3 21.0
Bobby Abreu OF ANA Free agency 2009 3 +5.3 +1.8 18.7
Mark Teixeira 1B ANA Trade 2008 1 +3.5 +3.5 7.2
Cam Bedrosian P ANA Draft 2010 5 +2.9 +0.6 –
Joel Piñeiro P ANA Free agency 2010 2 +2.6 +1.3 1.3
C. J. Cron 1B ANA Draft 2011 3 +2.3 +0.8 –
Juan Rivera OF ANA Free agency 2008 4 +2.1 +0.5 4.6
Hideki Matsui DH/OF ANA Free agency 2009 1 +1.5 +1.5 0.9
Jerome Williams P ANA Free agency 2011 3 +1.5 +0.5 1.7
Jon Garland P ANA Trade 2008 1 +1.3 +1.3 2.9
Scott Downs P ANA Free agency 2010 3 +0.9 +0.3 3.7
Matt Palmer P ANA Free agency 2009 3 +0.9 +0.3 4.1
Jett Bandy C ANA Draft 2011 2 +0.6 +0.3 –
Vernon Wells OF ANA Trade 2011 2 +0.6 +0.3 2.2
Shane Loux P ANA Trade 2008 2 +0.5 +0.2 0.1
Brian Fuentes P ANA Free agency 2008 1 +0.3 +0.3 1.9
Buddy Boshers P ANA Draft 2008 1 +0.2 +0.2 –
Hisanori Takahashi P ANA Free agency 2010 2 +0.2 +0.1 1.4
Tyler Chatwood P ANA Draft 2008 1 +0.1 +0.1 –
Gil Velazquez 3B ANA Free agency 2011 1 +0.1 +0.1 0.9
Steve Geltz P ANA Intl FA 2008 – -0.0 – –
Horacio Ramírez P ANA Free agency 2011 – -0.0 – –
Alex Serrano P ANA Trade 2008 1 +0.0 +0.0 –
Andrew Taylor P ANA Draft 2008 – -0.0 – –
Scott Kazmir P ANA Trade 2009 1 -0.0 -0.0 8.5
Ryan Langerhans OF ANA Free agency 2011 – -0.1 – –
Paul McAnulty OF ANA Free agency 2010 – -0.1 – –
Cory Aldridge OF ANA Free agency 2009 – -0.2 – –
Fernando Rodney P ANA Free agency 2009 1 -0.2 -0.2 0.1
Mike Ryan OF ANA Free agency 2010 – -0.2 – –
Nick Maronde P ANA Draft 2011 1 -0.3 -0.3 –
Francisco Rodríguez P ANA Draft 2010 – -0.3 – –
Brian Stokes P ANA Trade 2010 – -0.4 – –
David Carpenter P ANA Draft 2009 – -0.6 – –
Michael Kohn P ANA Draft 2008 1 -1.0 -1.0 –
Kaleb Cowart 2B/3B ANA Draft 2010 1 -1.7 -1.7 –

WAB = wins above what the team's payroll predicted (resource-controlled). WAR surplus = era-neutral value (WAR minus payroll in win-equivalents). Roster surplus $M = dollar value of WAR over cost. Build channels (realized fWAR): HG = home-grown via amateur draft / international signing; Trade = acquired minus surrendered (incl. purchases/waivers); FA = signed minus walked; R5 = Rule-5 / minor-league-draft pickups. Credit follows the acquisition year — home-grown to the regime at the player's draft/signing (not whoever was in the chair when he peaked), trade/FA/R5 to the GM who made the move. Players acquired as prospects before debuting (e.g. Smoltz, Bagwell; Rule-5 picks like Uggla) are counted as trade/R5, not home-grown. All are franchise-level outcomes during the stint, not solely attributable to one executive.

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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.