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

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.7
WAB — wins above budget
-5.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
-8M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.7
roster fWAR
$81.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Abreu 27 pre-arb 145 5.3 7.0 +8.4
Chris Sale 25 arb 26 5.0 3.5 +11.0
Jose Quintana 25 pre-arb 32 4.8 0.8 +13.1
Adam Eaton 25 pre-arb 123 3.7 0.5 +10.3
Alexei Ramirez 32 FA-elig 158 3.3 9.5 +0.1
Tyler Flowers 28 arb 127 3.0 0.9 +7.8
Conor Gillaspie 26 FA-elig 130 1.7 0.5 +4.5
Zach Putnam 26 pre-arb 49 0.7 0.4 +1.7
Chris Bassitt 25 – 6 0.7 0.1 +2.0
John Danks 29 FA-elig 32 0.6 14.2 -12.5
Moisés Sierra↔ TOR 25 pre-arb 83 0.6 0.4 +1.3
Marcus Semien 23 pre-arb 64 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Jake Petricka 26 pre-arb 67 0.5 0.5 +0.8
Adam Dunn↔ OAK 34 FA-elig 106 0.4 12.1 -10.9
Ronald Belisario 31 arb 62 0.4 3.0 -1.8
Alejandro De Aza↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 122 0.3 3.7 -2.8
Jordan Danks 27 pre-arb 51 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Hector Noesí↔ SEA 27 arb 28 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Erik Johnson 24 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.5 -0.1
Scott Carroll 29 – 26 0.1 0.4 +0.0
Scott Downs↔ KCR 38 FA-elig 38 0.1 2.6 -2.4
Javy Guerra 28 pre-arb 42 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Michael Taylor 28 pre-arb 11 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Nate Jones 28 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Donnie Veal 29 arb 7 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Josh Phegley 26 pre-arb 11 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Avisaíl García 23 pre-arb 46 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Scott Snodgress 24 – 4 -0.1 – –
Charlie Leesman 27 – 1 -0.1 – –
Yolmer Sánchez 22 – 28 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Taylor Thompson 27 – 5 -0.1 – –
Frank Francisco 34 – 4 -0.2 – –
Matt Lindstrom 34 FA-elig 35 -0.2 4.0 -4.6
Maikel Cleto 25 arb 28 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Eric Surkamp 26 pre-arb 35 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Daniel Webb 24 pre-arb 57 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Gordon Beckham↔ ANA 27 arb 101 -0.4 3.3 -4.5
André Rienzo 25 pre-arb 19 -0.5 0.3 -1.7
Andy Wilkins 25 – 17 -0.5 0.1 -1.6
Adrian Nieto 24 pre-arb 48 -0.5 0.5 -2.0
Felipe Paulino 30 FA-elig 4 -0.6 1.8 -3.4
Dayan Viciedo 25 arb 145 -0.9 2.8 -5.4
Paul Konerko 38 FA-elig 81 -1.0 2.5 -5.5
Leury García 23 pre-arb 74 -1.4 0.5 -4.5

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 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.