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GM: Dan Duquette (since 2012)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-10.7
WAB — wins above budget
-17.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
75–87 (0.463)
record
-107M
surplus $M (value/$)
20.2
roster fWAR
$174.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jonathan Schoop 25 arb 160 4.5 3.5 +11.8
Dylan Bundy 24 pre-arb 28 2.8 1.6 +7.7
Kevin Gausman 26 arb 34 2.5 3.5 +5.1
Welington Castillo 30 FA-elig 96 1.9 6.0 +0.5
Trey Mancini 25 pre-arb 147 1.8 0.5 +5.7
Manny Machado 24 arb 156 1.7 11.5 -5.6
Tim Beckham↔ TBR 27 arb 50 1.7 0.3 +5.3
Adam Jones 31 FA-elig 147 1.4 16.3 -11.5
Mychal Givens 27 pre-arb 69 1.2 0.5 +3.5
Brad Brach 31 FA-elig 67 1.2 3.0 +0.9
Caleb Joseph 31 arb 89 1.1 0.7 +3.1
Seth Smith 34 FA-elig 111 0.9 7.0 -4.0
Wade Miley 30 FA-elig 32 0.9 8.9 -6.0
Darren O'Day 34 FA-elig 64 0.8 7.0 -4.2
Zack Britton 29 FA-elig 38 0.6 11.4 -9.3
Gabriel Ynoa 24 pre-arb 9 0.5 0.2 +1.4
Chance Sisco 22 – 10 0.3 0.1 +1.1
Francisco Peña 27 pre-arb 5 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Craig Gentry 33 FA-elig 77 0.3 0.8 +0.1
Alec Asher 25 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Richard Bleier 30 pre-arb 57 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Joey Rickard 26 pre-arb 111 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Donnie Hart 26 pre-arb 51 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Ubaldo Jiménez 33 FA-elig 31 0.1 13.5 -13.1
Mike Wright Jr. 27 – 13 0.0 – –
Oliver Drake↔ MIL 30 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Tanner Scott 22 – 2 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Stefan Crichton 25 – 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Pedro Álvarez 30 FA-elig 14 -0.0 2.0 -2.1
Jayson Aquino 24 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Miguel Castro 22 pre-arb 39 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Tyler Wilson 27 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Anthony Santander 22 – 13 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jimmy Yacabonis 25 – 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Jeremy Hellickson↔ PHI 30 FA-elig 10 -0.1 5.7 -6.2
David Washington 26 – 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Edwin Jackson↔ WSN 33 – 3 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Rubén Tejada 27 arb 41 -0.2 1.4 -2.0
Logan Verrett 27 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Johnny Giavotella 29 pre-arb 7 -0.3 1.1 -2.0
Ryan Flaherty 30 arb 23 -0.3 1.8 -2.7
Hyun Soo Kim↔ PHI 29 pre-arb 56 -0.3 2.5 -3.4
J.J. Hardy 34 FA-elig 73 -0.3 14.0 -15.0
Richard Rodríguez 27 – 5 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Austin Hays 21 – 20 -0.4 0.1 -1.3
Chris Davis 31 FA-elig 128 -0.4 23.0 -24.3
Paul Janish 34 arb 14 -0.5 0.1 -1.7
Vidal Nuño 29 arb 12 -0.5 1.1 -2.8
Chris Tillman 29 FA-elig 24 -0.9 10.1 -13.2
Mark Trumbo 31 FA-elig 146 -1.8 11.5 -17.7

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 49 of them (98%). 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.