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GM: Dan Duquette (since 2012)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.4
WAB — wins above budget
+0.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record · made playoffs
-33M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.2
roster fWAR
$153.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Manny Machado 23 arb 157 5.7 5.0 +13.5
Jonathan Schoop 24 arb 162 3.5 0.5 +10.7
Kevin Gausman 25 arb 30 3.1 0.5 +9.6
Adam Jones 30 FA-elig 152 2.6 16.3 -7.9
Zack Britton 28 arb 69 2.5 6.8 +1.4
Chris Tillman 28 FA-elig 30 2.4 6.2 +1.7
Mark Trumbo 30 FA-elig 159 1.9 9.2 -2.9
Brad Brach 30 arb 71 1.7 1.2 +4.2
Ubaldo Jiménez 32 FA-elig 29 1.6 13.0 -7.7
Chris Davis 30 FA-elig 157 1.6 23.0 -17.8
J.J. Hardy 33 FA-elig 115 1.5 12.5 -7.5
Hyun Soo Kim 28 pre-arb 95 1.5 2.8 +2.2
Matt Wieters 30 FA-elig 124 1.4 15.8 -11.4
Mychal Givens 26 pre-arb 66 1.2 0.5 +3.3
Pedro Álvarez 29 FA-elig 109 1.1 5.8 -2.2
Wade Miley↔ SEA 29 arb 11 1.0 2.3 +1.0
Dylan Bundy 23 pre-arb 36 0.9 1.8 +1.2
Yovani Gallardo 30 FA-elig 24 0.8 9.0 -6.4
Joey Rickard 25 pre-arb 85 0.7 0.5 +1.7
Michael Bourn↔ ARI 33 FA-elig 24 0.5 0.1 +1.5
Tyler Wilson 26 pre-arb 24 0.4 0.4 +1.0
Trey Mancini 24 – 5 0.3 0.0 +1.1
Tommy Hunter↔ CLE 29 FA-elig 12 0.2 0.7 +0.0
Oliver Drake 29 pre-arb 14 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Mike Wright Jr. 26 pre-arb 18 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Donnie Hart 25 – 22 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Aríel Miranda↔ SEA 27 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Darren O'Day 33 FA-elig 34 0.1 6.0 -5.7
Steve Pearce↔ TBR 33 FA-elig 25 0.1 1.4 -1.2
Vance Worley 28 FA-elig 35 0.1 2.6 -2.4
Jayson Aquino 23 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Dariel Álvarez 27 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Brian Duensing 33 FA-elig 14 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Francisco Peña 26 pre-arb 14 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Ryan Flaherty 29 arb 74 -0.0 1.5 -1.6
Ashur Tolliver 28 – 5 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Logan Ondrusek 31 arb 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Chaz Roe↔ ATL 29 arb 9 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Odrisamer Despaigne↔ MIA 29 – 16 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Parker Bridwell 24 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Paul Janish 33 arb 14 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Julio Borbon 30 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Drew Stubbs↔ ATL 31 FA-elig 20 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Nolan Reimold 32 FA-elig 104 -0.2 1.3 -2.0
T.J. McFarland 27 arb 16 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Caleb Joseph 30 pre-arb 49 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Brian Matusz↔ CHC 29 arb 7 -0.4 3.4 -4.7

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.