Anirudh Kilambi

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Born 1994 · age 31

General manager for the Nationals (2026–present).

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

Titles0

Pennants0

Playoffs0

Record25–26

Win %0.490

+0.0WAB — wins above budget72nd/195 execs

+0.0Talent above budget — roster-construction alpha (talent your budget bought above expectation)79th/195 execs

–Acquisition leverage — playoff pts each bought win added, given the roster it joined (did you buy where wins matter?)193rd/195 execs

+4.8WAR surplus (era-neutral, win-equiv)35th/195 execs

+51Roster surplus $M18th/195 execs

How the roster was sourced

by value by volume

Share of gross-positive acquired fWAR by channel (vs. league average).

Build channels — net fWAR

Acquired minus surrendered / signed minus walked.

Home-grown (draft/intl)-0.1

Trade+0.6

Free agency-1.9

Rule 5 / minor draft+0.0

Sourcing mix: 0% draft · 0% FA · 100% trade · 0% R5

Tenure breakdown

Team	Role	Years	Szns	WAB	WAB/yr	TAB	WAR surp	HG	Trade	FA	R5	AcqLev	W-L%	PO	Pen	WS	Surp $M
▸ Nationals	GM	2026–present	0	+0.0	–	+0.0	+4.8	-0.1	+0.6	-1.9	+0.0	–	0.490	–	–	–	+51
2026 25–26				+0.0		+0.0	+4.8						0.490				+51
Career total (1985+ data)			1	+0.0		+0.0	+4.8	-0.1	+0.6	-1.9	+0.0	–	0.490	–	–	–	+51

Players acquired — 7 players, by realized fWAR for the franchise (scroll for more)

Player	Pos	Team	How	Year	fWAR
Curtis Mead	1B/2B/3B	WSN	Trade	2026	+0.4
Jorbit Vivas	2B/3B	WSN	Trade	2026	+0.3
Riley Cornelio	P	WSN	Draft	2026	-0.1
Andre Granillo	P	WSN	Trade	2026	-0.3
Cionel Pérez	P	WSN	Free agency	2026	-0.3
Miles Mikolas	P	WSN	Free agency	2026	-0.6
Zack Littell	P	WSN	Free agency	2026	-1.0

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.

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.