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GM: Andy MacPhail (since 2008)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-11.8
WAB — wins above budget
-16.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
69–93 (0.426)
record
-44M
surplus $M (value/$)
16.2
roster fWAR
$86.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Matt Wieters 25 pre-arb 139 5.0 0.5 +11.8
J.J. Hardy 28 FA-elig 129 4.5 5.8 +5.1
Adam Jones 25 arb 151 2.5 3.2 +2.8
Zack Britton 23 – 28 2.3 0.4 +5.2
Jeremy Guthrie 32 FA-elig 35 1.8 5.8 -1.5
Nick Markakis 27 arb 160 1.5 10.6 -7.1
Robert Andino 27 FA-elig 139 1.4 0.4 +3.1
Nolan Reimold 27 pre-arb 87 1.3 0.4 +2.7
Jim Johnson 28 arb 69 1.2 1.0 +2.0
Koji Uehara↔ TEX 36 pre-arb 43 1.1 2.0 +0.8
Chris Tillman 23 pre-arb 13 1.1 0.4 +2.2
Alfredo Simon 30 pre-arb 23 0.9 0.4 +1.9
Troy Patton 25 pre-arb 20 0.5 0.4 +0.9
Pedro Strop↔ TEX 26 pre-arb 12 0.5 0.2 +1.0
Tommy Hunter↔ TEX 24 arb 12 0.4 0.3 +0.7
Mark Reynolds 27 arb 155 0.1 5.3 -5.0
Cesar Izturis 31 FA-elig 18 0.1 1.5 -1.3
Willie Eyre 32 arb 19 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Brad Bergesen 25 pre-arb 34 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Zach Phillips 24 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Michael Gonzalez↔ TEX 33 FA-elig 49 0.0 5.2 -5.2
Blake Davis 27 – 25 0.0 – –
Brandon Snyder 24 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Craig Tatum 28 – 31 -0.0 – –
Clay Rapada 30 pre-arb 32 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Brian Roberts 33 FA-elig 39 -0.0 10.0 -10.1
Luke Scott 33 FA-elig 64 -0.1 6.4 -6.5
Mark Hendrickson 37 – 8 -0.1 – –
Matt Angle 25 pre-arb 31 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Derrek Lee↔ PIT 35 FA-elig 85 -0.1 5.5 -5.6
Chris Jakubauskas 32 – 34 -0.1 – –
Jake Arrieta 25 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Pedro Florimón 24 – 4 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Pedro Viola 28 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Jo-Jo Reyes↔ TOR 26 arb 9 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Jake Fox 28 arb 27 -0.3 0.4 -1.1
Jeremy Accardo 29 FA-elig 31 -0.3 1.1 -1.8
Mark Worrell 28 – 4 -0.3 – –
Josh Rupe 28 FA-elig 9 -0.4 0.5 -1.3
Chris Davis↔ TEX 25 pre-arb 31 -0.4 0.1 -1.0
Mitch Atkins 25 – 3 -0.4 – –
Rick Van Den Hurk 26 – 4 -0.4 – –
Kevin Gregg 33 FA-elig 63 -0.4 4.2 -5.3
Kyle Hudson 24 pre-arb 14 -0.5 0.1 -1.2
Ryan Adams 24 – 29 -0.5 0.3 -1.6
Jason Berken 27 pre-arb 40 -0.6 0.4 -1.8
Vladimir Guerrero 36 FA-elig 145 -0.6 7.6 -9.1
Josh Bell 24 pre-arb 26 -0.8 0.4 -2.3
Brian Matusz 24 pre-arb 12 -1.2 1.4 -4.2
Felix Pie 26 arb 85 -2.2 1.0 -6.5

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 43 of them (86%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

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 BAL
Brady Anderson198833.0
Adam Jones200829.6
Melvin Mora200026.9
Chris Hoiles198824.8
Scott Erickson199516.4
J. J. Hardy201014.3
Randy Milligan198811.9
Mike Devereaux198911.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Dennis Martínez198622.5
Jake Arrieta201319.6
Bryn Smith197716.4
Mickey Tettleton199114.4
Eduardo Rodríguez201414.3
Mike Yastrzemski201911.3
Eddie Murray198810.8
José Mesa19929.1
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.