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GM: Kenny Williams (since 2001)

2002 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.8
WAB — wins above budget
+4.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–81 (0.500)
record
+9M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.2
roster fWAR
$53.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Magglio Ordonez 28 arb 153 4.5 6.5 +1.2
Mark Buehrle 23 pre-arb 34 4.3 0.3 +7.0
Jose Valentin 32 FA-elig 135 3.5 5.0 +1.0
Ray Durham↔ OAK 30 FA-elig 96 2.3 4.0 -0.1
Jon Garland 22 pre-arb 33 2.2 0.3 +3.5
Antonio Osuna 29 FA-elig 59 2.0 2.2 +1.2
Carlos Lee 26 arb 140 2.0 2.7 +0.7
Kenny Lofton↔ SFG 35 FA-elig 93 1.9 0.7 +2.6
Paul Konerko 26 arb 151 1.8 3.8 -0.8
Dan Wright 24 pre-arb 33 1.7 0.2 +2.6
Damaso Marte 27 arb 69 1.6 0.2 +2.5
Todd Ritchie 30 arb 27 1.4 3.5 -1.2
Frank Thomas 34 FA-elig 148 1.4 9.9 -7.6
Keith Foulke 29 arb 65 1.3 4.0 -1.8
Joe Crede 24 – 53 1.2 – –
D'Angelo Jimenez↔ SDP 24 arb 27 1.1 0.1 +1.9
Royce Clayton 32 FA-elig 112 1.0 4.5 -2.8
Tony Graffanino 30 FA-elig 70 1.0 0.6 +1.1
Gary Glover 25 arb 41 0.8 0.2 +1.2
Aaron Rowand 24 pre-arb 126 0.7 0.2 +1.0
Sandy Alomar Jr.↔ COL 36 FA-elig 51 0.7 1.4 -0.3
Mark Johnson 26 arb 86 0.5 0.3 +0.5
Matt Ginter 24 – 33 0.3 – –
Bob Howry↔ BOS 28 arb 47 0.2 0.8 -0.6
Miguel Olivo 23 – 6 0.0 – –
Rocky Biddle 26 pre-arb 44 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Lorenzo Barcelo 24 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Kelly Wunsch 29 pre-arb 50 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Jon Rauch 23 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Joe Borchard 23 – 16 -0.2 – –
Jeff Liefer 27 arb 76 -0.3 0.3 -0.8
Willie Harris 24 – 49 -0.3 – –
Josh Paul 27 – 33 -0.4 – –
Mike Porzio 29 arb 32 -0.6 0.2 -1.2
Jim Parque 26 – 8 -0.8 – –

35 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 28 of them (80%). 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.