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GM: Jim Hendry (since 2003)

2010 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-12.5
WAB — wins above budget
-12.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
75–87 (0.463)
record
-77M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.3
roster fWAR
$137.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Marlon Byrd 32 FA-elig 152 3.9 3.0 +6.1
Geovany Soto 27 arb 105 3.8 0.6 +8.2
Carlos Marmol 27 arb 77 2.7 2.1 +4.2
Alfonso Soriano 34 FA-elig 147 2.7 19.0 -12.8
Randy Wells 27 pre-arb 32 2.6 0.4 +5.7
Ryan Dempster 33 FA-elig 35 2.3 13.5 -8.1
Carlos Zambrano 29 FA-elig 42 2.3 18.9 -13.6
Sean Marshall 27 arb 80 1.8 0.9 +3.2
Starlin Castro 20 – 125 1.8 – –
Tyler Colvin 24 pre-arb 135 1.8 0.4 +3.7
Tom Gorzelanny 27 arb 29 1.6 0.8 +3.0
Carlos Silva 31 FA-elig 21 1.5 12.8 -9.2
Ted Lilly↔ LAD 34 FA-elig 18 1.3 7.8 -4.8
Kosuke Fukudome 33 pre-arb 130 1.2 14.0 -11.2
Jeff Baker 29 arb 79 1.0 1.0 +1.3
Derrek Lee↔ ATL 34 FA-elig 109 0.9 9.8 -7.7
Darwin Barney 24 – 30 0.5 – –
Casey Coleman 22 – 12 0.4 – –
Welington Castillo 23 – 7 0.3 – –
Scott Maine 25 – 13 0.1 – –
Bobby Scales 32 – 10 0.1 – –
Chad Tracy↔ MIA 30 FA-elig 28 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Mike Fontenot↔ SFG 30 arb 75 -0.0 0.7 -0.7
Aramis Ramirez 32 FA-elig 124 -0.0 16.8 -16.8
Bob Howry↔ ARI 36 FA-elig 24 -0.0 1.3 -1.3
Brad Snyder 28 – 12 -0.0 – –
Thomas Diamond 27 – 16 -0.1 – –
Jeff Gray 28 – 7 -0.1 – –
Mitch Atkins 24 – 5 -0.1 – –
Blake DeWitt↔ LAD 24 pre-arb 53 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Sam Fuld 28 arb 19 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Esmailin Caridad 26 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Brian Schlitter 24 – 7 -0.2 – –
Marcos Mateo 26 – 21 -0.3 – –
Justin Berg 26 pre-arb 41 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
John Grabow 31 FA-elig 28 -0.4 2.7 -3.5
Jeff Stevens 26 – 18 -0.4 – –
Jeff Samardzija 25 pre-arb 7 -0.4 3.0 -3.9
James Russell 24 pre-arb 57 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Micah Hoffpauir 30 pre-arb 24 -0.5 0.0 -1.2
Andrew Cashner 23 – 53 -0.6 – –
Ryan Theriot↔ LAD 30 arb 96 -0.6 1.7 -3.1
Xavier Nady 31 FA-elig 119 -0.7 3.3 -5.0
Koyie Hill 31 FA-elig 77 -1.6 0.7 -4.3

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 30 of them (68%). 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 CHC
Sammy Sosa199260.7
Ryne Sandberg198248.2
Anthony Rizzo201231.1
Aramis Ramírez200325.0
Kyle Hendricks201224.4
Derrek Lee200321.4
Jake Arrieta201319.6
Rick Sutcliffe198417.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Rafael Palmeiro198842.3
Dontrelle Willis200220.7
Dennis Eckersley198719.3
Ricky Nolasco200517.5
Jon Garland199817.2
Chris Archer201116.9
Gleyber Torres201615.9
Josh Donaldson200813.8
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.