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GM: Larry Himes (since 1987)

1987 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.9
WAB — wins above budget
-1.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.3
roster fWAR
$10.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ivan Calderon 25 arb 144 4.0 0.1 +1.1
Ozzie Guillen 23 pre-arb 149 3.6 0.2 +0.9
Carlton Fisk 39 FA-elig 135 3.0 0.9 -0.0
Bill Long 27 pre-arb 29 2.5 0.1 +0.6
Gary Redus 30 arb 130 2.4 0.4 +0.3
Richard Dotson 28 FA-elig 31 2.4 1.1 -0.4
Jose DeLeon 26 arb 33 2.4 0.2 +0.5
Floyd Bannister 32 FA-elig 34 2.3 0.9 -0.3
Greg Walker 27 arb 157 2.0 0.5 +0.1
Kenny Williams 23 pre-arb 116 1.9 0.1 +0.5
Harold Baines 28 FA-elig 132 1.7 0.9 -0.5
Fred Manrique 25 FA-elig 115 1.3 0.1 +0.3
Dave LaPoint↔ STL 27 FA-elig 14 1.2 0.0 +0.3
Steve Lyons 27 pre-arb 76 1.2 0.1 +0.2
Donnie Hill 26 arb 111 1.0 0.3 +0.0
Daryl Boston 24 arb 103 0.9 0.1 +0.2
Jack McDowell 21 – 4 0.8 – –
Bobby Thigpen 23 pre-arb 51 0.7 0.6 -0.4
Jerry Hairston Sr. 35 FA-elig 66 0.6 0.1 +0.0
Jerry Royster↔ NYY 34 FA-elig 55 0.3 0.2 -0.1
Neil Allen↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 15 0.1 0.8 -0.8
Bryan Clark 30 – 11 0.1 – –
Joel Davis 22 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Tim Hulett Sr. 27 arb 68 0.1 0.2 -0.2
Bill Lindsey 27 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.1 -0.1
John Pawlowski 23 – 2 0.0 – –
Scott Nielsen 28 pre-arb 19 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Pat Keedy 29 pre-arb 17 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Adam Peterson 21 – 1 -0.1 – –
Ralph Citarella 29 – 5 -0.3 – –
Ray Searage 32 FA-elig 58 -0.4 0.1 -0.2
Ron Hassey 34 FA-elig 49 -0.4 0.5 -0.7
Bob James 28 FA-elig 43 -0.4 0.5 -0.6
Ron Karkovice 23 pre-arb 39 -0.5 0.6 -0.8
Joel McKeon 24 pre-arb 13 -1.1 0.7 -1.0
Jim Winn 27 arb 56 -1.1 0.1 -0.5

36 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 31 of them (86%). 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 CHW
Paul Konerko199824.5
Carlton Fisk198518.3
John Danks200617.4
José Valentín200017.3
Lance Johnson198817.3
Jon Garland199817.2
Gavin Floyd200615.3
Tim Raines199014.5
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Sammy Sosa199260.7
Fernando Tatís201627.7
Bobby Bonilla198620.6
Brian Downing197716.9
Chris Young200514.5
Nick Swisher200814.4
Chet Lemon198114.2
José DeLeón198811.7
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.