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GM: Jed Hoyer (since 2012)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.9
WAB — wins above budget
+8.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
+40M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.7
roster fWAR
$65.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jake Arrieta 28 arb 26 5.6 0.5 +15.8
Anthony Rizzo 24 arb 140 5.3 1.2 +14.3
Luis Valbuena 28 FA-elig 149 3.2 1.7 +7.7
Starlin Castro 24 arb 134 3.2 5.0 +4.3
Jeff Samardzija↔ OAK 29 FA-elig 17 2.4 2.8 +4.2
Travis Wood 27 arb 41 2.4 3.9 +3.0
Chris Coghlan 29 arb 125 2.4 0.7 +6.2
Jason Hammel↔ OAK 31 FA-elig 17 2.1 3.4 +2.7
Emilio Bonifácio↔ ATL 29 FA-elig 69 1.8 1.6 +3.8
Kyle Hendricks 24 – 14 1.7 0.2 +4.9
Héctor Rondón 26 pre-arb 64 1.7 0.5 +4.4
Carlos Villanueva 30 FA-elig 42 1.1 5.0 -1.7
Pedro Strop 29 arb 65 1.1 1.3 +2.0
Neil Ramírez 25 – 50 0.9 0.4 +2.1
Edwin Jackson 30 FA-elig 29 0.8 11.0 -8.6
Tsuyoshi Wada 33 pre-arb 13 0.8 0.2 +2.2
Jorge Soler 22 – 24 0.7 2.7 -0.5
Arismendy Alcántara 22 – 70 0.7 0.2 +1.8
Justin Grimm 25 pre-arb 73 0.7 0.5 +1.4
Justin Ruggiano 32 FA-elig 81 0.5 2.0 -0.6
Darwin Barney↔ LAD 28 arb 72 0.4 1.8 -0.6
Brian Schlitter 28 pre-arb 61 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Ryan Sweeney 29 FA-elig 77 0.4 1.5 -0.5
Welington Castillo 27 arb 110 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Wesley Wright 29 FA-elig 58 0.3 1.4 -0.6
Blake Parker 29 pre-arb 18 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Dallas Beeler 25 pre-arb 2 0.2 0.0 +0.5
Dan Straily↔ OAK 25 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Félix Doubront↔ BOS 26 arb 4 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Jacob Turner↔ MIA 23 pre-arb 8 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Chris Rusin 27 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Kyuji Fujikawa 33 pre-arb 15 -0.0 4.5 -4.6
Arodys Vizcaíno 23 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Matt Szczur 24 – 33 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Zac Rosscup 26 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Chris Valaika 28 – 44 -0.1 – –
Raffy Lopez 26 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
James Russell↔ ATL 28 arb 44 -0.1 1.2 -1.4
Eric Jokisch 24 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Jose Veras↔ HOU 33 FA-elig 12 -0.3 1.0 -1.9
Logan Watkins 24 pre-arb 31 -0.4 0.1 -1.1
Ryan Kalish 26 arb 57 -0.4 0.6 -1.7
Junior Lake 24 pre-arb 108 -0.4 0.5 -1.7
Mike Olt 25 pre-arb 89 -0.5 0.5 -1.8
Eli Whiteside 34 – 8 -0.5 – –
Javier Báez 21 – 52 -0.8 0.2 -2.4
Nate Schierholtz↔ WSN 30 FA-elig 99 -0.9 4.1 -6.5
John Baker 33 FA-elig 68 -1.2 0.9 -4.2

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 46 of them (96%). 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.