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GM: Ron Schueler (since 1991)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+19.1
WAB — wins above budget
+13.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · made playoffs
+26M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.5
roster fWAR
$34.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Frank Thomas 32 FA-elig 159 5.9 7.1 +1.3
Jose Valentin 30 FA-elig 144 4.5 1.3 +5.0
Mike Sirotka 29 arb 32 3.5 1.4 +3.6
Herbert Perry Jr.↔ TBR 30 FA-elig 109 2.9 0.5 +3.6
Ray Durham 28 arb 151 2.7 4.9 -1.1
Jim Parque 25 pre-arb 33 2.7 0.5 +3.3
Keith Foulke 27 arb 72 2.5 0.4 +3.2
Magglio Ordonez 26 arb 153 2.3 0.4 +2.8
Charles Johnson↔ BAL 28 FA-elig 44 2.2 1.6 +1.5
Carlos Lee 24 pre-arb 152 2.1 0.3 +2.7
Cal Eldred 32 FA-elig 20 2.0 5.4 -2.5
Paul Konerko 24 arb 143 1.6 0.3 +2.0
James Baldwin 28 arb 29 1.3 3.3 -1.4
Bob Howry 26 pre-arb 65 1.2 0.3 +1.3
Kelly Wunsch 27 pre-arb 83 1.1 0.2 +1.4
Brook Fordyce↔ BAL 30 arb 40 0.8 0.3 +0.9
Tony Graffanino↔ TBR 28 arb 57 0.8 0.2 +0.9
Kip Wells 23 pre-arb 20 0.7 0.2 +0.8
Mark Buehrle 21 – 28 0.6 – –
Bill Simas 28 arb 60 0.6 1.4 -0.5
Josh Paul 25 pre-arb 36 0.6 0.2 +0.6
Mark Johnson 24 pre-arb 75 0.6 0.2 +0.5
Lorenzo Barcelo 22 pre-arb 22 0.4 0.2 +0.4
Chris Singleton 27 pre-arb 147 0.4 0.3 +0.3
Jon Garland 20 pre-arb 15 0.4 0.2 +0.4
Chad Bradford 25 – 12 0.4 – –
Craig Wilson 29 pre-arb 28 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Sean Lowe 29 arb 50 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Joe Crede 22 – 7 0.0 – –
Kevin Beirne 26 – 29 -0.0 – –
Scott Eyre 28 arb 13 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Rocky Biddle 24 – 4 -0.0 – –
Aaron Myette 22 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Ken Hill↔ ANA 34 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.6 -0.7
Jeff Abbott 27 arb 80 -0.2 0.3 -0.6
McKay Christensen 24 pre-arb 32 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Jeff Liefer 25 pre-arb 5 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Harold Baines↔ BAL 41 FA-elig 24 -0.3 0.5 -0.9
Jesus Pena↔ BOS 25 – 20 -0.3 – –
Matt Ginter 22 – 7 -0.4 – –
Tanyon Sturtze↔ TBR 29 arb 10 -0.4 0.1 -0.6
Greg Norton 27 arb 71 -0.4 0.3 -0.9

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (83%). 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.