Will all the talk about buying playoff berths, and Yankees West, and homegrown this, and blah blah blah, I wanted to see what kind of a team I could put together with only guys who came up through the Dodgers system. I also wanted to compare them to the current team.
Note: I only included the starting 8 position players, and 4 starters. I skipped relievers & bench players, simply because I got lazy and it was getting hard to assemble an entire team.
I used a very, very simple system to judge: their salary and WAR for this season. This could get a bit complicated if you used overly advanced stats.
What I found was...if the Dodgers had never made a trade ever, they could have produced a team equally as talented as their current one for almost $30,000,000 less. Oh - and that does not include Carl Crawford's contract.
EDIT: Updated with Justin Ruggiano
| Homegrown | Current | |||||
| Player | bWAR | Salary | Player | bWAR | Salary | |
| 1B | Paul Konerko | 1.8 | $12,000,000 | Adrian Gonzalez | 2.6 | $20,000,000 |
| 2b | Tony Abreu | -0.2 | $400,000 | Mark Ellis | 2.3 | $4,500,000 |
| SS | Dee Gordon | -1.3 | $485,000 | Luis Cruz | 1.7 | $400,000 |
| 3B | Adrian Beltre | 4.4 | $15,000,000 | Hanley Ramirez | 0.8 | $15,000,000 |
| C | Carlos Santana | 3 | $500,000 | AJ Ellis | 2.9 | $400,000 |
| LF | Shane Victorino | 1.9 | $9,500,000 | Shane Victorino | 1.9 | $9,500,000 |
| CF | Matt Kemp | 2.2 | $10,000,000 | Matt Kemp | 2.2 | $10,000,000 |
| RF | Justin Ruggiano | 2.4 | $400,000 | Andre Ethier | 3.7 | $10,900,000 |
| SP | Clayton Kershaw | 4.1 | $7,500,000 | Clayton Kershaw | 4.1 | $7,500,000 |
| Sp | Chad Billingsley | 1.4 | $9,000,000 | Chad Billingsley | 1.4 | $9,000,000 |
| SP | Hiroki Kuroda | 5 | $10,000,000 | Chris Capuano | 1.9 | $3,000,000 |
| SP | James McDonald | 1.2 | $500,000 | Josh Beckett | 0 | $15,700,000 |
| Average | 2.2 | $6,273,750 | 2.1 | $8,825,000 | ||
| Total | 25.9 | $75,285,000 | 25.5 | $105,900,000 | ||
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