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GM: Kenny Williams (since 2001)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.1
WAB — wins above budget
-6.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–83 (0.488)
record
-30M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.9
roster fWAR
$98.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Gavin Floyd 26 arb 30 4.0 0.8 +8.6
Mark Buehrle 30 FA-elig 33 3.1 14.0 -6.5
John Danks 24 pre-arb 32 2.6 0.5 +5.7
A.J. Pierzynski 32 FA-elig 138 2.3 6.2 -0.7
Matt Thornton 32 arb 70 2.3 1.3 +4.2
Gordon Beckham 22 pre-arb 103 2.3 0.4 +5.1
Alexei Ramirez 27 pre-arb 148 2.1 1.2 +3.7
Scott Podsednik 33 FA-elig 132 2.0 0.5 +4.2
Jose Contreras↔ COL 37 FA-elig 21 1.9 7.5 -3.0
Paul Konerko 33 FA-elig 152 1.8 12.0 -7.7
Freddy Garcia 32 FA-elig 9 1.5 1.5 +2.1
D.J. Carrasco 32 FA-elig 49 1.2 0.4 +2.4
Clayton Richard↔ SDP 25 pre-arb 27 1.2 0.3 +2.5
Jim Thome↔ LAD 38 FA-elig 107 0.9 11.2 -9.0
Chris Getz 25 pre-arb 107 0.8 0.4 +1.6
Jayson Nix 26 pre-arb 94 0.8 0.4 +1.6
Dewayne Wise 31 FA-elig 84 0.7 0.6 +1.2
Octavio Dotel 35 FA-elig 62 0.7 6.0 -4.3
Jake Peavy↔ SDP 28 FA-elig 3 0.7 2.1 -0.5
Ramon Pena↔ ARI 27 arb 35 0.5 0.2 +1.0
Bobby Jenks 28 arb 52 0.2 5.6 -5.1
Bartolo Colon 36 FA-elig 12 0.2 1.0 -0.6
Aaron Poreda↔ SDP 22 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Lance Broadway↔ NYM 25 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Scott Linebrink 32 FA-elig 57 0.1 4.5 -4.2
Randy Williams 33 arb 25 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Daniel Hudson 22 – 6 0.1 – –
Tyler Flowers 23 – 10 0.0 – –
Jhonny Nunez 23 – 7 0.0 – –
Wes Whisler 26 – 3 -0.0 – –
Jerry Owens 28 – 12 -0.0 – –
Brian Anderson↔ BOS 27 arb 65 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Mike MacDougal↔ WSN 32 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Jack Egbert 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Corky Miller↔ CIN 33 FA-elig 14 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Carlos Torres 26 – 8 -0.1 – –
Mark Kotsay↔ BOS 33 FA-elig 40 -0.2 0.9 -1.3
Jimmy Gobble 27 – 12 -0.2 – –
Ramon Castro↔ NYM 33 FA-elig 31 -0.3 1.4 -2.0
Carlos Quentin 26 arb 99 -0.5 0.6 -1.8
Wilson Betemit 27 FA-elig 20 -0.7 1.3 -2.9
Josh Fields 26 arb 79 -0.7 0.4 -2.1
Brent Lillibridge 25 pre-arb 46 -0.8 0.4 -2.2
Jermaine Dye 35 FA-elig 141 -0.8 11.5 -13.4
Alex Rios↔ TOR 28 arb 41 -1.0 1.8 -4.2

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (84%). 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.