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

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+14.8 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+22.9 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
42–23 (0.646)
record
+306M
surplus $M (value/$)
64.6
roster fWAR
$270.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Shohei Ohtani 31 FA-elig 63 11.3 28.2 +72.6
Andy Pages 25 pre-arb 65 6.7 0.8 +58.9
Max Muncy 35 FA-elig 59 5.9 10.0 +42.4
Freddie Freeman 36 FA-elig 62 4.3 22.9 +15.8
Yoshinobu Yamamoto 27 pre-arb 12 4.3 20.3 +17.8
Justin Wrobleski 25 pre-arb 11 4.2 0.8 +36.7
Teoscar Hernández 33 FA-elig 51 2.9 14.7 +10.8
Will Smith 31 FA-elig 52 2.9 12.9 +12.5
Tyler Glasnow 32 FA-elig 7 2.5 32.5 -10.3
Kyle Tucker 29 FA-elig 61 2.0 1.0 +16.4
Emmet Sheehan 26 pre-arb 11 1.9 0.8 +16.3
Alex Vesia 30 arb 27 1.9 3.5 +13.0
Dalton Rushing 25 pre-arb 34 1.8 0.8 +14.9
Will Klein 26 pre-arb 21 1.6 0.8 +13.2
Roki Sasaki 24 pre-arb 11 1.5 0.8 +12.6
Alex Freeland 24 pre-arb 42 1.4 0.2 +12.6
Tanner Scott 31 FA-elig 29 1.2 12.6 -2.1
Hyeseong Kim 27 pre-arb 43 1.1 4.1 +5.3
Kyle Hurt 28 pre-arb 20 0.9 0.7 +7.2
Enrique Hernández 34 FA-elig 2 0.8 4.5 +2.4
Jack Dreyer 27 pre-arb 23 0.8 0.8 +5.9
Edgardo Henriquez 24 pre-arb 22 0.7 0.8 +5.9
Alex Call 31 pre-arb 34 0.6 1.6 +4.0
Mookie Betts 33 FA-elig 31 0.6 25.2 -20.1
Ryan Ward 28 – 6 0.5 0.0 +4.3
Miguel Rojas 37 FA-elig 41 0.4 5.5 -1.8
Blake Snell 33 FA-elig 1 0.3 27.9 -25.3
Blake Treinen 38 FA-elig 24 0.3 13.5 -11.2
Paul Gervase 26 pre-arb 2 0.2 0.6 +1.4
Brock Stewart 34 arb 2 0.2 1.3 +0.3
Eric Lauer↔ TOR 31 arb 2 0.1 0.6 +0.2
Jonathan Hernández 29 arb 5 0.1 0.6 +0.2
Chayce McDermott 27 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.7
Jake Eder 27 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Charlie Barnes↔ CHC 30 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Edwin Díaz 32 FA-elig 7 -0.1 17.0 -18.2
Ben Casparius 27 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.8 -3.2
Wyatt Mills 31 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.0 -2.7
Santiago Espinal 31 arb 32 -0.4 0.8 -4.2

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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 Álvarez201627.1
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.