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GM: Kenny Williams (since 2001)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.6
WAB — wins above budget
-2.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–83 (0.488)
record
-47M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.8
roster fWAR
$125.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Alexei Ramirez 29 arb 158 4.2 2.8 +7.5
Mark Buehrle 32 FA-elig 31 3.2 14.0 -6.3
Gavin Floyd 28 FA-elig 31 3.1 5.0 +2.6
Philip Humber 28 arb 28 3.0 0.5 +6.8
Jake Peavy 30 FA-elig 19 2.9 16.0 -8.9
John Danks 26 arb 27 2.8 6.0 +0.9
Paul Konerko 35 FA-elig 149 2.7 12.0 -5.4
Edwin Jackson↔ STL 27 FA-elig 19 2.7 5.2 +1.4
Alejandro De Aza 27 – 54 2.5 – –
Carlos Quentin 28 arb 118 2.5 5.0 +1.1
A.J. Pierzynski 34 FA-elig 129 2.1 2.0 +3.1
Matt Thornton 34 FA-elig 62 1.4 3.0 +0.5
Sergio Santos 27 pre-arb 63 1.4 0.4 +2.9
Tyler Flowers 25 pre-arb 38 1.3 0.4 +2.8
Brent Lillibridge 27 arb 97 1.3 0.4 +2.7
Chris Sale 22 pre-arb 58 1.1 0.4 +2.2
Jesse Crain 29 FA-elig 67 0.8 4.0 -2.0
Gordon Beckham 24 pre-arb 150 0.8 0.5 +1.4
Brent Morel 24 pre-arb 126 0.4 0.4 +0.6
Dylan Axelrod 25 pre-arb 4 0.4 0.4 +0.6
Ramon Castro 35 FA-elig 23 0.2 1.2 -0.6
Zach Stewart↔ TOR 24 – 11 0.2 0.2 +0.2
Will Ohman 33 FA-elig 59 0.1 1.5 -1.1
Josh Kinney 32 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Lucas Harrell↔ HOU 26 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Addison Reed 22 – 6 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Ramon Pena 29 arb 17 0.1 1.6 -1.4
Héctor Santiago 23 – 2 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Eduardo Escobar 22 – 9 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Jeff Gray↔ SEA 29 – 6 0.0 – –
Dayan Viciedo 22 pre-arb 29 0.0 2.2 -2.2
Donny Lucy 28 – 6 -0.0 – –
Shane Lindsay 26 – 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Jason Frasor↔ TOR 33 FA-elig 20 -0.2 1.1 -1.5
Dallas McPherson 30 arb 11 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
Lastings Milledge 26 arb 2 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Brian Bruney 29 arb 23 -0.3 0.2 -0.8
Omar Vizquel 44 FA-elig 58 -0.4 1.8 -2.8
Mark Teahen↔ TOR 29 FA-elig 51 -0.5 3.1 -4.2
Juan Pierre 33 FA-elig 158 -0.6 8.5 -10.0
Alex Rios 30 FA-elig 145 -1.4 12.5 -16.0
Adam Dunn 31 FA-elig 122 -2.9 12.0 -19.1

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (93%). 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.