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GM: Dan Duquette (since 2012)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.6
WAB — wins above budget
+3.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
+6M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.4
roster fWAR
$91.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chris Davis 27 arb 160 7.0 3.3 +15.6
Manny Machado 20 pre-arb 156 5.0 0.5 +12.9
Adam Jones 27 FA-elig 160 4.9 8.5 +4.7
J.J. Hardy 30 FA-elig 159 3.2 7.0 +1.6
Nate McLouth 31 FA-elig 146 2.2 2.0 +4.0
Wei-Yin Chen 27 pre-arb 23 2.0 3.6 +1.7
Chris Tillman 25 arb 33 1.9 0.5 +4.5
Miguel González 29 pre-arb 30 1.6 0.5 +3.9
Matt Wieters 27 arb 148 1.6 5.5 -1.2
Ryan Flaherty 26 pre-arb 85 1.2 0.5 +2.7
Brian Roberts 35 FA-elig 77 1.1 10.0 -7.0
Scott Feldman↔ CHC 30 FA-elig 16 1.0 3.1 -0.3
Brian Matusz 26 arb 65 1.0 1.6 +1.1
Bud Norris↔ HOU 28 arb 11 0.9 1.0 +1.5
Danny Valencia 28 pre-arb 52 0.9 0.3 +2.2
Jim Johnson 30 FA-elig 74 0.9 6.5 -4.2
Steve Pearce 30 FA-elig 44 0.8 0.7 +1.5
Darren O'Day 30 arb 68 0.7 2.2 -0.3
Tommy Hunter 26 arb 68 0.7 1.8 +0.0
Jason Hammel 30 FA-elig 26 0.6 6.8 -5.2
Nick Markakis 29 FA-elig 160 0.5 15.0 -13.5
T.J. McFarland 24 pre-arb 38 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Kevin Gausman 22 – 20 0.4 0.3 +0.7
Chris Dickerson 31 pre-arb 56 0.2 0.4 +0.3
Jake Arrieta↔ CHC 27 arb 5 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Zack Britton 25 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Jair Jurrjens 27 arb 2 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Alexi Casilla 28 FA-elig 62 0.0 1.7 -1.6
Steve Johnson 25 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Steve Clevenger↔ CHC 27 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Jonathan Schoop 21 – 5 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Alex Burnett↔ CHC 25 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Francisco Rodríguez↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 23 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Zach Clark 29 – 1 -0.0 – –
Troy Patton 27 FA-elig 56 -0.0 0.8 -0.9
Chris Snyder 32 – 9 -0.0 – –
Josh Stinson 25 – 11 -0.1 – –
Yamaico Navarro 25 – 8 -0.1 – –
Luis Ayala↔ ATL 35 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
L.J. Hoes↔ HOU 23 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Jairo Asencio 30 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Dan Johnson 33 arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Mike Belfiore 24 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Travis Ishikawa↔ NYY 29 – 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Jason Pridie 29 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.0 -0.8
Henry Urrutia 26 – 24 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Pedro Strop↔ CHC 28 arb 29 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Wilson Betemit 31 FA-elig 6 -0.3 1.8 -2.7
Taylor Teagarden 29 arb 23 -0.4 0.7 -1.6
Michael Morse↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 12 -0.7 0.9 -2.7
Freddy Garcia↔ ATL 36 – 11 -0.8 0.1 -2.1
Nolan Reimold 29 arb 40 -0.9 1.0 -3.4

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (92%). 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.