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GM: Kenny Williams

Overview

WINDOW ↗ rising
cheap & winning · year 2 in this regime · payroll 0.87× league · TAB +12.4
+12.4TAB — talent above budget3rd/30
+5.8WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)11th/30
10.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars4th/30
-3.9dead WAR — sub-replacement drag9th/30
32%dead money %16th/30
0.531win %11th/30
45.0roster fWAR5th/30
+22surplus $M (value vs cost)2nd/30
$60Mpayroll $M16th/30

Roster

CFCarl Everett 81GAaron Rowand 65GWillie Harris 61G
LFCarlos Lee 156GCarl Everett 48GAaron Rowand 24G
RFMagglio Ordonez 154GCarl Everett 34GAaron Rowand 12G
SSJose Valentin 143GTony Graffanino 36G
2BRoberto Alomar 139GTony Graffanino 29GWillie Harris 12G
3BJoe Crede 151GTony Graffanino 20G
1BPaul Konerko 119GBrian Daubach 45GFrank Thomas 27G
STARTERSEsteban Loaiza 6.9WARBartolo Colon 4.6WARMark Buehrle 4.3WARJon Garland 1.7WARJosh Stewart 0.0WAR
CMiguel Olivo 113GSandy Alomar Jr. 75GJamie Burke 4G
DHFrank Thomas 124GPaul Konerko 11GBrian Daubach 10G
BULLPEN★ Damaso Marte 11svScott Sullivan 11hTom Gordon 7hKelly Wunsch 5hScott Schoeneweis 4hBilly Koch 1hDavid Sanders 0hJon Adkins 0h
CMiguel Olivo 113 · Sandy Alomar Jr. 75 · Jamie Burke 4
1BPaul Konerko 119 · Brian Daubach 45 · Frank Thomas 27
2BRoberto Alomar 139 · Tony Graffanino 29 · Willie Harris 12
3BJoe Crede 151 · Tony Graffanino 20
SSJose Valentin 143 · Tony Graffanino 36
LFCarlos Lee 156 · Carl Everett 48 · Aaron Rowand 24
CFCarl Everett 81 · Aaron Rowand 65 · Willie Harris 61
RFMagglio Ordonez 154 · Carl Everett 34 · Aaron Rowand 12
DHFrank Thomas 124 · Paul Konerko 11 · Brian Daubach 10
SPEsteban Loaiza 6.9 · Bartolo Colon 4.6 · Mark Buehrle 4.3 · Jon Garland 1.7 · Josh Stewart 0.0
BP★ Damaso Marte 11 · Scott Sullivan 11 · Tom Gordon 7 · Kelly Wunsch 5 · Scott Schoeneweis 4 · Billy Koch 1 · David Sanders 0 · Jon Adkins 0

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

2003 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Esteban Loaiza 31 FA-elig 346.9 0.5 +11.8
Bartolo Colon 30 FA-elig 344.6 8.2 -0.0
Magglio Ordonez 29 FA-elig 1604.6 9.0 -0.8
Mark Buehrle 24 arb 354.3 0.4 +7.2
Frank Thomas 35 FA-elig 1534.2 5.0 +2.5
Jose Valentin 33 FA-elig 1443.9 5.0 +1.9
Carlos Lee 27 arb 1583.7 4.2 +2.3
Damaso Marte 28 arb 712.5 0.3 +4.2
Tom Gordon 35 FA-elig 662.1 1.4 +2.2
Joe Crede 25 arb 1512.0 0.3 +3.3
Jon Garland 23 arb 321.7 0.4 +2.7
Tony Graffanino 31 FA-elig 901.6 0.7 +2.2
Carl Everett↔ TEX 32 FA-elig 731.6 4.5 -1.7
Aaron Rowand 25 pre-arb 931.4 0.3 +2.2
Miguel Olivo 24 pre-arb 1140.9 0.3 +1.3
D'Angelo Jimenez↔ CIN 25 arb 730.5 0.2 +0.8
Scott Schoeneweis↔ ANA 29 arb 200.5 0.5 +0.4
Sandy Alomar Jr. 37 FA-elig 750.3 0.7 -0.1
Josh Paul↔ CHC 28 arb 130.3 0.3 +0.3
Gary Glover↔ ANA 26 arb 240.3 0.2 +0.4
Mike Porzio 30 – 30.2 – –
Kelly Wunsch 30 arb 430.2 0.6 -0.2
Roberto Alomar↔ NYM 35 FA-elig 670.1 3.8 -3.6
Scott Sullivan↔ CIN 32 FA-elig 150.1 0.6 -0.5
Aaron Miles 26 – 80.1 – –
Jamie Burke 31 – 60.0 – –
Josh Stewart 24 pre-arb 50.0 0.3 -0.3
Neal Cotts 23 – 4-0.0 – –
Jose Paniagua 29 – 1-0.0 – –
Brian Daubach 31 arb 95-0.0 0.5 -0.5
Jon Adkins 25 – 4-0.1 – –
Matt Ginter 25 – 3-0.1 – –
Dan Wright 25 pre-arb 20-0.2 0.3 -0.7
David Sanders 23 – 20-0.2 – –
Rick White↔ HOU 34 FA-elig 34-0.2 0.4 -0.8
Billy Koch 28 arb 55-0.3 4.2 -4.8
Willie Harris 25 – 79-0.4 – –
Joe Borchard 24 – 16-0.4 – –
Armando Rios 31 arb 49-0.9 0.5 -2.1
Paul Konerko 27 FA-elig 137-1.0 6.2 -8.1

Key additions (new vs 2002)

PlayerfWAR
Esteban Loaiza6.9
Bartolo Colon4.6
Tom Gordon2.1
Carl Everett1.6
Scott Schoeneweis0.5
Roberto Alomar0.1

Key subtractions (gone from 2002)

Player2002 fWAR
Ray Durham2.3
Antonio Osuna2.0
Kenny Lofton1.9
Todd Ritchie1.4
Keith Foulke1.3
Royce Clayton1.0

Current & Historical Payroll

2003 payroll
$60.0M

What the front office was committed to as of 2003, 2003–2009. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (14)

PlayerAgeSvc2003200420052006200720082009
Magglio Ordonez296.000$9.0M$14.0MFREE AGENT
Bartolo Colon306.000$8.2MFREE AGENT$1.0M
Paul Konerko276.000$6.2M$8.0M$8.8M$12.0M$12.0M$12.0M$12.0M
Jose Valentin3311.000$5.0M$5.0MFREE AGENT
Frank Thomas3513.000$5.0M$6.0M$8.0MFREE AGENT
Carl Everett3210.000$4.5M$1.6M$4.0MFREE AGENT
Roberto Alomar3515.000$3.8M$679kFREE AGENT
Tom Gordon3515.000$1.4MFREE AGENT
Sandy Alomar Jr.3715.000$700k$700kFREE AGENT$382k
Tony Graffanino317.000$675kFREE AGENT
Scott Sullivan328.000$646kFREE AGENT
Esteban Loaiza318.000$500k$2.7MFREE AGENT$5.2M
Rick White349.000$416kFREE AGENT
Jose Paniagua297.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (15)

PlayerAgeSvc2003200420052006200720082009
Billy Koch284.000$4.2MARB 3FREE AGENT
Carlos Lee274.000$4.2MARB 3FREE AGENT
Kelly Wunsch303.000$575kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Scott Schoeneweis294.000$483kARB 3FREE AGENT
Brian Daubach315.000$450kFREE AGENT
Armando Rios315.000$450kFREE AGENT
Mark Buehrle243.000$445kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jon Garland233.000$375kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Damaso Marte284.000$330kARB 3FREE AGENT
Joe Crede253.000$315kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Josh Paul284.000$264kARB 3FREE AGENT
Gary Glover264.000$189kARB 3FREE AGENT
D'Angelo Jimenez254.000$172kARB 3FREE AGENT
Mike Porzio304.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT
Matt Ginter253.000—ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (11)

PlayerAgeSvc2003200420052006200720082009
Dan Wright252.000$325kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Aaron Rowand252.000$320kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Miguel Olivo241.000$300kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Josh Stewart240.000$300kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Joe Borchard241.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jamie Burke312.000—ARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Willie Harris252.000—ARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jon Adkins250.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Aaron Miles260.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
David Sanders23–—
Neal Cotts230.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = White Sox 2003; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
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.