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

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.6
WAB — wins above budget
-2.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-26M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.7
roster fWAR
$131.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Adam Eaton 27 arb 157 6.2 2.8 +17.4
Chris Sale 27 FA-elig 32 5.3 9.2 +8.0
Jose Quintana 27 arb 32 4.9 5.4 +10.4
Todd Frazier 30 arb 158 3.0 8.2 +1.4
Tim Anderson 23 – 99 2.8 0.3 +8.8
Miguel González 32 arb 24 2.8 0.4 +8.5
Carlos Rodón 23 pre-arb 28 2.7 0.5 +8.1
José Abreu 29 pre-arb 159 2.2 13.3 -6.2
Nate Jones 30 arb 71 1.8 0.9 +5.1
Melky Cabrera 31 FA-elig 151 1.8 14.0 -8.3
Tyler Saladino 26 pre-arb 93 1.3 0.5 +3.8
David Robertson 31 FA-elig 62 1.0 11.0 -7.6
Brett Lawrie 26 arb 94 0.9 4.1 -1.1
Dan Jennings 29 arb 64 0.9 0.8 +2.2
Zach Duke↔ STL 33 FA-elig 53 0.9 3.3 -0.5
Alex Avila 29 FA-elig 57 0.6 2.5 -0.6
Zach Putnam 28 arb 25 0.4 1.0 +0.3
Austin Jackson 29 FA-elig 54 0.3 5.0 -3.9
Michael Ynoa 24 pre-arb 23 0.3 0.3 +0.7
Jimmy Rollins 37 FA-elig 41 0.2 2.0 -1.2
Omar Narváez 24 – 34 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Matt Purke 25 – 12 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Jason Coats 26 pre-arb 28 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Justin Morneau 35 FA-elig 58 0.0 1.0 -0.9
Juan Minaya 25 – 11 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Daniel Webb 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Leury García 25 pre-arb 18 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Matt Davidson 25 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Mat Latos↔ WSN 28 FA-elig 11 0.0 1.9 -1.9
Scott Carroll 31 – 3 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Tommy Kahnle 26 pre-arb 29 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Avisaíl García 25 arb 120 -0.0 2.1 -2.2
Tyler Danish 21 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Blake Smith 28 – 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Charlie Tilson 23 – 1 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
John Danks 31 – 4 -0.1 15.8 -16.0
Héctor Sánchez↔ SDP 26 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Jake Petricka 28 arb 9 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Carson Fulmer 22 – 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Kevan Smith 28 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Chris Beck 25 pre-arb 25 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Jerry Sands 28 arb 24 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Erik Johnson↔ SDP 26 – 2 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Anthony Ranaudo↔ TEX 26 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Yolmer Sánchez 24 pre-arb 53 -0.5 0.3 -1.8
Jacob Turner 25 arb 18 -0.5 1.5 -3.0
Matt Albers 33 FA-elig 58 -0.7 2.0 -4.2
JB Shuck 29 arb 81 -1.3 0.5 -4.8
James Shields↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 22 -1.4 14.0 -18.7
Dioner Navarro↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 85 -1.8 3.4 -9.2

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.