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President of baseball ops: Kenny Williams (since 2013) · GM: Rick Hahn (since 2013)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-19.0
WAB — wins above budget
-13.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
63–99 (0.389)
record
-51M
surplus $M (value/$)
21.2
roster fWAR
$104.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chris Sale 24 arb 30 4.8 0.8 +12.0
Jose Quintana 24 pre-arb 33 3.4 0.5 +8.6
Alexei Ramirez 31 arb 158 2.7 7.0 +0.4
Alejandro De Aza 29 FA-elig 153 2.3 2.1 +4.1
Alex Rios↔ TEX 32 FA-elig 109 2.2 8.7 -2.9
Nate Jones 27 pre-arb 70 1.9 0.5 +4.7
Jesse Crain 31 – 38 1.9 – –
Addison Reed 24 pre-arb 68 1.6 0.5 +3.7
Héctor Santiago 25 pre-arb 34 1.2 0.5 +2.6
Gordon Beckham 26 arb 103 1.1 2.9 +0.0
Matt Lindstrom 33 FA-elig 76 0.9 2.3 +0.2
Jake Peavy↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 13 0.9 8.2 -5.8
Conor Gillaspie 25 arb 134 0.8 0.5 +1.5
Dayan Viciedo 24 arb 124 0.5 2.8 -1.5
Adam Dunn 33 FA-elig 149 0.4 15.0 -13.9
Tyler Flowers 27 arb 84 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Avisaíl García↔ DET 22 pre-arb 42 0.4 0.3 +0.7
Hector Gimenez 30 FA-elig 26 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Daniel Webb 23 – 9 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Marcus Semien 22 – 21 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Gavin Floyd 30 FA-elig 5 0.2 9.5 -9.1
Donnie Veal 28 arb 50 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Jake Petricka 25 – 16 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Blake Tekotte 26 pre-arb 20 0.1 0.1 +0.1
John Danks 28 FA-elig 22 0.1 14.2 -14.0
Leury García↔ TEX 22 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Simon Castro 25 – 4 -0.0 – –
Jordan Danks 26 pre-arb 79 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Angel Sanchez 29 FA-elig 1 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Brian Omogrosso 29 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Dewayne Wise 35 FA-elig 30 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Erik Johnson 23 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Brent Morel 26 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Miguel Gonzalez 22 – 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
David Purcey 31 – 24 -0.1 – –
Tyler Greene 29 – 22 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Matt Thornton↔ BOS 36 FA-elig 40 -0.1 3.7 -4.0
Josh Phegley 25 – 65 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Charlie Leesman 26 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Deunte Heath 27 – 5 -0.3 – –
Ramon Troncoso 30 arb 29 -0.3 0.3 -1.2
Bryan Anderson 26 pre-arb 10 -0.4 0.1 -1.1
Dylan Axelrod 27 pre-arb 30 -0.4 0.5 -1.6
André Rienzo 24 pre-arb 10 -0.4 0.2 -1.3
Casper Wells↔ OAK 28 arb 38 -0.9 0.4 -2.8
Paul Konerko 37 FA-elig 126 -1.5 13.5 -17.4
Jeff Keppinger 33 FA-elig 117 -1.7 3.5 -8.2

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 43 of them (91%). 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.