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

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-11.5
WAB — wins above budget
-11.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
67–95 (0.414)
record
-33M
surplus $M (value/$)
19.8
roster fWAR
$99.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Abreu 30 arb 156 4.4 10.8 +4.0
Avisaíl García 26 arb 136 4.3 3.0 +11.6
Yolmer Sánchez 25 arb 141 2.1 0.5 +6.7
Jose Quintana↔ CHC 28 arb 18 1.9 3.9 +2.5
Anthony Swarzak↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 41 1.7 0.5 +5.1
Miguel González↔ TEX 33 arb 22 1.6 4.8 +0.4
Leury García 26 arb 87 1.4 0.5 +4.3
Tommy Kahnle↔ NYY 27 arb 37 1.4 0.3 +4.4
Todd Frazier↔ NYY 31 FA-elig 81 1.3 6.6 -2.2
Omar Narváez 25 pre-arb 90 1.2 0.5 +3.5
Kevan Smith 29 pre-arb 87 0.9 0.5 +2.5
Yoán Moncada 22 pre-arb 54 0.9 0.2 +2.7
David Robertson↔ NYY 32 FA-elig 31 0.8 6.1 -3.5
Carlos Rodón 24 pre-arb 12 0.8 0.6 +1.9
Nicky Delmonico 24 – 43 0.7 0.2 +2.3
Reynaldo López 23 pre-arb 8 0.6 0.2 +1.9
Gregory Infante 29 pre-arb 52 0.6 0.4 +1.6
Tim Anderson 24 pre-arb 146 0.6 0.8 +1.1
Melky Cabrera↔ KCR 32 FA-elig 98 0.4 9.4 -7.9
Tyler Clippard↔ HOU 32 FA-elig 11 0.3 1.0 +0.1
Zach Putnam 29 FA-elig 7 0.3 1.2 -0.1
Lucas Giolito 22 pre-arb 7 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Danny Farquhar↔ TBR 30 FA-elig 15 0.2 0.3 +0.6
Rob Brantly 27 pre-arb 14 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Nate Jones 31 arb 11 0.2 1.9 -1.3
Al Alburquerque↔ KCR 31 arb 10 0.2 0.0 +0.5
Adam Engel 25 – 97 0.1 0.3 +0.1
Juan Minaya 26 pre-arb 40 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Rymer Liriano 26 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Tyler Danish 22 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Willy García 24 pre-arb 44 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Dan Jennings↔ TBR 30 arb 48 0.0 0.9 -0.8
Carson Fulmer 23 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jace Fry 23 – 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Geovany Soto 34 FA-elig 13 -0.1 2.0 -2.4
Jake Petricka 29 arb 27 -0.1 0.8 -1.2
Chris Volstad 30 arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
James Shields 35 FA-elig 21 -0.2 21.0 -21.5
Alen Hanson↔ PIT 24 pre-arb 69 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Michael Ynoa 25 pre-arb 22 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Brad Goldberg 27 – 11 -0.4 0.1 -1.3
Aaron Bummer 23 – 30 -0.5 0.2 -1.8
Jacob May 25 pre-arb 15 -0.6 0.5 -2.5
Matt Davidson 26 arb 118 -0.7 0.5 -2.8
David Holmberg 25 pre-arb 37 -0.8 0.4 -2.9
Derek Holland 30 FA-elig 29 -0.9 6.0 -8.9
Cody Asche 27 arb 19 -0.9 0.5 -3.4
Mike Pelfrey 33 FA-elig 34 -1.0 8.0 -11.3
Tyler Saladino 27 pre-arb 79 -1.0 0.5 -3.9
Dylan Covey 25 pre-arb 18 -1.1 0.5 -4.4
Chris Beck 26 pre-arb 57 -1.2 0.5 -4.5

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.