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GM: Jed Hoyer (since 2012)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.2 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+0.3 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
34–26 (0.567)
record · made playoffs
-70M
surplus $M (value/$)
14.8
roster fWAR
$182.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yu Darvish 33 FA-elig 12 2.9 22.0 -0.5
Ian Happ 25 pre-arb 57 2.0 0.2 +14.2
Kyle Hendricks 30 FA-elig 12 1.9 12.0 +1.8
Willson Contreras 28 arb 57 1.7 4.5 +7.8
Jason Heyward 30 FA-elig 50 1.6 21.0 -9.1
Anthony Rizzo 30 FA-elig 58 1.0 16.5 -9.5
Javier Báez 27 FA-elig 59 0.7 10.0 -4.9
Adbert Alzolay 25 pre-arb 6 0.5 0.0 +3.9
Kyle Schwarber 27 arb 59 0.5 7.0 -3.1
Rowan Wick 27 pre-arb 19 0.5 0.2 +3.4
Nico Hoerner 23 pre-arb 48 0.5 0.2 +3.3
Tyler Chatwood 30 FA-elig 5 0.4 13.0 -9.9
Jason Kipnis 33 FA-elig 44 0.4 0.1 +2.7
Ryan Tepera 32 arb 21 0.3 0.9 +1.4
Victor Caratini 26 pre-arb 44 0.3 0.2 +1.8
Jon Lester 36 FA-elig 12 0.2 20.0 -18.4
Billy Hamilton↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 14 0.2 0.1 +1.5
Jeremy Jeffress 32 FA-elig 22 0.2 0.8 +0.5
Jose Quintana 31 FA-elig 4 0.2 10.5 -9.3
Cameron Maybin↔ DET 33 FA-elig 18 0.2 0.8 +0.3
David Bote 27 pre-arb 45 0.2 1.0 +0.2
Alec Mills 28 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.2 +0.8
Kris Bryant 28 arb 34 0.1 18.6 -17.6
Josh Osich↔ BOS 31 arb 4 0.1 0.2 +0.7
Craig Kimbrel 32 FA-elig 18 0.1 16.0 -15.3
Jason Adam 28 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.1 +0.6
Ildemaro Vargas↔ ARI 28 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Matt Dermody 29 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
James Norwood 26 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Ian Miller 28 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Colin Rea 29 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Hernán Pérez 29 FA-elig 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Brailyn Marquez 21 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Duane Underwood Jr. 25 – 17 -0.0 – –
Andrew Chafin↔ ARI 30 FA-elig 4 -0.0 0.8 -1.1
Patrick Wisdom 28 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.3
Dillon Maples 28 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.4
Dan Winkler 30 arb 18 -0.1 0.8 -1.4
Rex Brothers 32 arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.8
Brad Wieck 28 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.2 -1.0
Steven Souza Jr. 31 FA-elig 11 -0.1 1.0 -1.8
Tyson Miller 24 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -1.0
Albert Almora Jr. 26 arb 28 -0.1 1.6 -2.6
Josh Phegley 32 arb 11 -0.2 0.2 -1.7
Casey Sadler↔ SEA 29 – 10 -0.2 0.1 -1.6
Kyle Ryan 28 FA-elig 18 -0.4 1.0 -3.6
José A. Martínez↔ TBR 31 – 10 -0.5 – –

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 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.