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GM: Dan Duquette (since 2012)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+14.6
WAB — wins above budget
+6.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
96–66 (0.593)
record · made playoffs
+10M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.2
roster fWAR
$107.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Adam Jones 28 FA-elig 159 4.6 13.0 +0.6
Steve Pearce 31 FA-elig 102 4.5 0.7 +12.4
Nelson Cruz 33 FA-elig 159 3.9 8.0 +3.3
J.J. Hardy 31 FA-elig 141 3.0 7.0 +1.6
Nick Markakis 30 FA-elig 155 2.3 15.0 -8.2
Wei-Yin Chen 28 pre-arb 31 2.3 4.1 +2.7
Manny Machado 21 pre-arb 82 2.3 0.5 +6.2
Chris Tillman 26 arb 34 2.3 0.5 +6.1
Kevin Gausman 23 pre-arb 20 1.9 0.5 +5.1
Caleb Joseph 28 – 82 1.8 0.4 +4.9
Bud Norris 29 arb 29 1.3 5.3 -1.4
David Lough 28 pre-arb 112 1.2 0.5 +2.9
Zack Britton 26 arb 71 1.0 0.5 +2.4
Andrew Miller↔ BOS 29 FA-elig 23 1.0 0.6 +2.2
Chris Davis 28 FA-elig 127 0.9 10.3 -7.6
Delmon Young 28 FA-elig 83 0.9 1.0 +1.6
Darren O'Day 31 FA-elig 68 0.9 3.2 -0.7
Tommy Hunter 27 FA-elig 60 0.7 3.0 -0.9
Ryan Flaherty 27 pre-arb 102 0.7 0.5 +1.5
Ryan Webb 28 arb 51 0.7 1.8 +0.2
Matt Wieters 28 arb 26 0.6 7.7 -6.0
Alejandro De Aza↔ CHW 30 FA-elig 20 0.5 0.6 +1.0
T.J. McFarland 25 pre-arb 37 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Ubaldo Jiménez 30 FA-elig 25 0.4 11.2 -10.1
Jonathan Schoop 22 pre-arb 137 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Miguel González 30 pre-arb 27 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Jimmy Paredes↔ KCR 25 pre-arb 18 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Brian Matusz 27 arb 63 0.2 2.4 -1.8
Brad Brach 28 arb 46 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Kelly Johnson↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 19 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Jemile Weeks↔ BOS 27 arb 3 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Ramon E Ramirez 32 – 1 0.0 – –
Preston Guilmet 26 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Nick Hundley↔ SDP 30 FA-elig 50 -0.0 2.4 -2.5
Quintin Berry 29 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Steve Lombardozzi Jr. 25 arb 20 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Steve Clevenger 28 arb 35 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Christian Walker 23 – 6 -0.1 – –
Cord Phelps 27 – 3 -0.1 – –
Troy Patton↔ SDP 28 FA-elig 9 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Joe Saunders↔ TEX 33 FA-elig 6 -0.2 0.6 -1.1
Josh Stinson 26 arb 8 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Alexi Casilla 29 – 1 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Evan Meek 31 FA-elig 23 -0.4 0.8 -1.9

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (93%). 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.