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

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.3
WAB — wins above budget
-7.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–86 (0.469)
record
-32M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.2
roster fWAR
$115.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chris Sale 26 arb 31 5.6 6.0 +11.6
Jose Quintana 26 arb 32 4.2 3.4 +9.8
Adam Eaton 26 arb 153 3.9 0.8 +11.3
José Abreu 28 pre-arb 154 3.3 8.7 +1.8
Tyler Flowers 29 FA-elig 112 2.4 2.7 +4.9
Jeff Samardzija 30 FA-elig 32 2.4 9.8 -2.3
David Robertson 30 FA-elig 60 1.7 10.0 -4.6
Carlos Rodón 22 – 26 1.7 0.5 +4.9
Geovany Soto 32 FA-elig 78 1.6 1.5 +3.4
Trayce Thompson 24 – 44 1.4 0.2 +4.3
John Danks 30 FA-elig 30 1.3 15.8 -11.6
Dan Jennings 28 arb 53 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Jake Petricka 27 pre-arb 62 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Gordon Beckham 28 FA-elig 100 0.4 2.0 -0.9
Matt Albers 32 FA-elig 30 0.3 1.5 -0.6
Tyler Saladino 25 – 68 0.3 0.2 +0.6
Frankie Montas 22 – 7 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Scott Carroll 30 pre-arb 18 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Alexei Ramirez 33 FA-elig 154 0.1 10.0 -9.6
Zach Putnam 27 arb 49 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Melky Cabrera 30 FA-elig 158 0.1 13.0 -12.8
Chris Beck 24 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Yolmer Sánchez 23 pre-arb 120 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Javy Guerra 29 arb 3 0.0 0.9 -0.9
Erik Johnson 25 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Junior Guerra 30 – 3 -0.0 – –
Kyle Drabek 27 arb 3 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Nate Jones 29 arb 19 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Leury García 24 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
JB Shuck 28 arb 79 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Micah Johnson 24 pre-arb 36 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Daniel Webb 25 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Hector Noesí 28 arb 10 -0.3 1.9 -2.8
Avisaíl García 24 arb 148 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Zach Duke 32 FA-elig 71 -0.5 4.5 -6.0
Rob Brantly 25 pre-arb 14 -0.5 0.5 -2.0
Mike Olt↔ CHC 26 arb 24 -0.5 0.4 -1.9
Emilio Bonifácio 30 FA-elig 47 -0.8 3.0 -5.4
Conor Gillaspie↔ ANA 27 FA-elig 58 -0.8 0.4 -2.9
Adam LaRoche 35 FA-elig 127 -1.2 12.0 -15.7

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (98%). 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.