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President of baseball ops: Jed Hoyer (since 2021) · GM: Carter Hawkins (since 2021)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.6
WAB — wins above budget
-1.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record
-65M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.0
roster fWAR
$214.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dansby Swanson 30 FA-elig 149 4.2 26.0 -8.4
Nico Hoerner 27 arb 151 3.8 11.5 +4.4
Ian Happ 29 FA-elig 153 3.6 21.0 -6.2
Seiya Suzuki 29 pre-arb 132 3.5 21.0 -6.6
Shota Imanaga 30 pre-arb 29 3.1 9.2 +3.6
Justin Steele 28 arb 24 3.0 4.0 +8.5
Pete Crow-Armstrong 22 pre-arb 123 2.6 0.7 +10.2
Jameson Taillon 32 FA-elig 28 2.3 18.0 -8.2
Michael Busch 26 pre-arb 152 2.2 0.7 +8.4
Cody Bellinger 28 FA-elig 130 2.1 27.5 -18.8
Ben Brown 24 pre-arb 15 1.3 0.7 +4.6
Mark Leiter Jr.↔ NYY 33 FA-elig 39 1.3 1.0 +4.4
Javier Assad 26 pre-arb 29 1.0 0.8 +3.6
Mike Tauchman 33 FA-elig 109 1.0 1.9 +2.4
Porter Hodge 23 pre-arb 39 0.9 0.7 +3.0
Christian Bethancourt↔ MIA 32 FA-elig 24 0.6 0.8 +1.8
Miguel Amaya 25 pre-arb 117 0.6 0.7 +1.8
Tyson Miller↔ SEA 28 arb 49 0.5 0.6 +1.5
Kyle Hendricks 34 FA-elig 29 0.4 16.5 -14.8
Isaac Paredes↔ TBR 25 arb 52 0.4 1.2 +0.5
Colten Brewer 31 pre-arb 16 0.3 0.7 +0.6
Jorge López↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 24 0.3 0.9 +0.2
David Bote 31 FA-elig 37 0.3 5.5 -4.3
Alexander Canario 24 pre-arb 15 0.2 0.7 +0.3
Yency Almonte 30 FA-elig 17 0.2 1.9 -1.0
Nate Pearson↔ TOR 27 arb 19 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Hayden Wesneski 26 pre-arb 28 0.2 0.7 +0.0
Garrett Cooper↔ BOS 33 FA-elig 12 0.2 0.6 +0.1
Keegan Thompson 29 arb 24 0.2 0.7 -0.1
Héctor Neris↔ HOU 35 FA-elig 46 0.1 6.7 -6.1
Ethan Roberts 26 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Julian Merryweather 32 arb 15 0.1 1.2 -0.8
Daniel Palencia 24 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Jesus Tinoco↔ MIA 29 arb 2 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Luke Little 23 pre-arb 30 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Hunter Bigge↔ TBR 26 – 4 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Shawn Armstrong↔ STL 33 FA-elig 8 0.0 0.3 -0.1
Enoli Paredes↔ MIL 28 arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Gavin Hollowell 26 – 1 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Richard Lovelady↔ TBR 28 arb 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Trey Wingenter↔ BOS 30 arb 5 -0.1 0.9 -1.1
Caleb Kilian 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Jack Neely 24 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Luis Vázquez 24 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Jordan Wicks 24 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Kevin Alcántara 21 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Jose Cuas↔ TOR 30 – 9 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Christopher Morel↔ TBR 25 pre-arb 103 -0.2 0.5 -1.4
Patrick Wisdom 32 FA-elig 75 -0.2 2.7 -3.7
Drew Smyly 35 FA-elig 50 -0.3 8.5 -9.6
Tomás Nido↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 17 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
Miles Mastrobuoni 28 pre-arb 50 -0.4 0.7 -2.4
Matt Mervis 26 pre-arb 9 -0.4 0.7 -2.5
Nick Madrigal 27 arb 51 -0.7 1.8 -4.7
Adbert Alzolay 29 arb 18 -0.8 2.1 -5.5
Yan Gomes 36 FA-elig 34 -1.2 6.0 -11.0

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.