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GM: Randy Bush (since 2011)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.4
WAB — wins above budget
-12.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
71–91 (0.438)
record
-61M
surplus $M (value/$)
25.1
roster fWAR
$123.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Matt Garza 27 arb 31 4.3 6.0 +4.4
Aramis Ramirez 33 FA-elig 149 3.3 14.6 -6.4
Geovany Soto 28 FA-elig 125 3.1 3.0 +4.5
Starlin Castro 21 pre-arb 158 2.7 0.4 +6.3
Sean Marshall 28 arb 78 2.6 1.6 +4.7
Carlos Pena 33 FA-elig 153 2.5 10.0 -3.9
Ryan Dempster 34 FA-elig 35 2.1 13.5 -8.4
Marlon Byrd 33 FA-elig 119 1.7 5.5 -1.2
Darwin Barney 25 pre-arb 143 1.6 0.4 +3.4
Tony Campana 25 – 95 1.4 0.4 +3.0
Carlos Zambrano 30 FA-elig 25 1.4 18.9 -15.5
Reed Johnson 34 FA-elig 111 1.1 0.9 +1.8
Alfonso Soriano 35 FA-elig 137 1.1 19.0 -16.4
Carlos Marmol 28 arb 75 0.6 2.5 -1.0
Jeff Samardzija 26 arb 75 0.5 3.3 -2.0
Doug Davis 35 – 9 0.5 – –
Casey Coleman 23 pre-arb 21 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Kerry Wood 34 FA-elig 55 0.4 1.5 -0.6
Bryan LaHair 28 pre-arb 20 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Marcos Mateo 27 pre-arb 23 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Blake DeWitt 25 arb 121 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Andrew Cashner 24 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.4 -0.4
John Gaub 26 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Rafael Dolis 23 – 1 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Steve Clevenger 25 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Luis Montanez 29 – 36 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Chris Carpenter 25 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Justin Berg 27 – 8 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Brad Snyder 29 – 8 -0.1 – –
DJ LeMahieu 22 – 37 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Jeff Stevens 27 – 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Ramon Ortiz 38 FA-elig 22 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
James Russell 25 pre-arb 64 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Kosuke Fukudome↔ CLE 34 arb 87 -0.3 8.6 -9.3
Welington Castillo 24 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.4 -1.1
Jeff Baker 30 FA-elig 81 -0.3 1.2 -2.0
Randy Wells 28 arb 23 -0.4 0.5 -1.4
Scott Maine 26 pre-arb 7 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
John Grabow 32 FA-elig 58 -0.6 4.8 -6.2
Rodrigo Lopez 35 – 26 -0.8 – –
Tyler Colvin 25 pre-arb 80 -1.1 0.4 -3.2
Koyie Hill 32 FA-elig 46 -1.4 0.8 -4.3

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 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 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.