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GM: Dan Duquette (since 2012)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-35.1
WAB — wins above budget
-22.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
47–115 (0.290)
record
-89M
surplus $M (value/$)
12.0
roster fWAR
$131.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Manny Machado↔ LAD 25 FA-elig 96 4.5 9.5 +5.9
Mychal Givens 28 arb 69 1.8 0.6 +5.7
Alex Cobb 30 FA-elig 28 1.5 14.0 -8.8
Kevin Gausman↔ ATL 27 arb 21 1.5 3.7 +1.3
Jonathan Villar↔ MIL 27 arb 54 1.1 1.0 +2.9
Jonathan Schoop↔ MIL 26 arb 85 1.1 5.5 -1.9
Joey Rickard 27 pre-arb 79 1.0 0.3 +3.1
Dylan Bundy 25 FA-elig 31 1.0 1.6 +1.7
Richard Bleier 31 pre-arb 31 0.8 0.6 +2.3
Renato Núñez↔ TEX 24 pre-arb 60 0.7 0.2 +2.4
Paul Fry 25 – 35 0.7 0.3 +2.2
Tanner Scott 23 pre-arb 53 0.7 0.4 +1.8
Craig Gentry 34 FA-elig 68 0.7 0.9 +1.3
Andrew Cashner 31 FA-elig 29 0.6 6.5 -4.4
Brad Brach↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 42 0.4 3.1 -1.7
Darren O'Day 35 – 20 0.4 6.0 -4.6
DJ Stewart 24 – 17 0.4 0.1 +1.2
Jace Peterson↔ NYY 28 arb 93 0.3 0.5 +0.6
Mark Trumbo 32 FA-elig 90 0.3 12.5 -11.5
Yefry Ramírez 24 – 17 0.3 0.3 +0.6
Adam Jones 32 FA-elig 145 0.3 17.3 -16.4
Trey Mancini 26 pre-arb 156 0.2 0.6 +0.0
Breyvic Valera↔ LAD 26 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Austin Wynns 27 – 42 0.1 0.3 -0.0
David Hess 24 – 21 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Mike Wright Jr. 28 arb 48 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Cedric Mullins 23 – 45 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Josh Rogers 23 – 3 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Zack Britton↔ NYY 30 FA-elig 16 0.0 4.7 -4.6
John Means 25 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Luis Ortiz 22 – 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Donnie Hart 27 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Danny Valencia 33 FA-elig 79 -0.1 1.2 -1.4
Jimmy Yacabonis 26 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Engelb Vielma 24 – 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Pedro Álvarez 31 FA-elig 45 -0.1 1.0 -1.3
John Andreoli↔ SEA 28 – 23 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Sean Gilmartin 28 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Corban Joseph 29 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Tim Beckham 28 arb 96 -0.2 3.4 -3.9
Jhan Mariñez 29 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Evan Phillips↔ ATL 23 – 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Miguel Castro 23 arb 63 -0.2 0.6 -1.4
Ryan Meisinger 24 – 18 -0.2 0.2 -1.0
Luis Sardinas 25 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Nestor Cortes 23 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Anthony Santander 23 pre-arb 33 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Andrew Susac 28 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.0 -1.2
Caleb Joseph 32 arb 82 -0.4 1.2 -2.5
Chance Sisco 23 pre-arb 63 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Chris Tillman 30 FA-elig 7 -0.4 3.0 -4.4
Colby Rasmus 31 FA-elig 18 -0.4 3.0 -4.4
Cody Carroll 25 – 15 -0.4 0.1 -1.7
Pedro Araújo 24 pre-arb 20 -0.6 0.5 -2.5
Stevie Wilkerson 26 – 16 -0.6 – –
Chris Davis 32 FA-elig 128 -2.5 23.0 -31.7

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 55 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.