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

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.3
WAB — wins above budget
-8.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
62–100 (0.383)
record
-16M
surplus $M (value/$)
20.4
roster fWAR
$84.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Tim Anderson 25 pre-arb 153 2.4 1.0 +7.2
Yolmer Sánchez 26 arb 155 2.3 2.4 +5.6
Reynaldo López 24 pre-arb 32 2.3 0.6 +7.4
José Abreu 31 arb 128 1.7 13.0 -7.2
Joakim Soria↔ MIL 34 FA-elig 40 1.4 5.5 -0.6
Jace Fry 24 pre-arb 59 1.3 0.4 +4.1
Dylan Covey 26 pre-arb 27 1.3 0.4 +3.9
James Shields 36 FA-elig 34 1.2 21.0 -16.8
Adam Engel 26 pre-arb 143 1.0 0.6 +3.0
Yoán Moncada 23 pre-arb 149 1.0 0.6 +3.0
Luis Avilán↔ PHI 28 FA-elig 58 1.0 2.0 +1.4
Leury García 27 arb 82 1.0 1.2 +2.2
Avisaíl García 27 FA-elig 93 1.0 6.7 -3.4
Carlos Rodón 25 arb 20 0.9 2.3 +0.8
Matt Davidson 27 arb 126 0.8 0.6 +2.1
Aaron Bummer 24 pre-arb 37 0.8 0.5 +2.1
Juan Minaya 27 pre-arb 52 0.8 0.6 +2.1
Ryan LaMarre↔ MIN 29 pre-arb 33 0.7 0.1 +2.2
Kevan Smith 30 pre-arb 52 0.6 0.3 +1.6
Omar Narváez 26 pre-arb 97 0.5 0.6 +1.2
Xavier Cedeño↔ MIL 31 – 33 0.4 0.5 +1.0
Bruce Rondón 27 arb 35 0.3 0.3 +0.7
Jeanmar Gómez 30 arb 26 0.3 0.2 +0.7
José Rondon 24 pre-arb 42 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Caleb Frare 24 – 11 0.2 – –
Nate Jones 32 FA-elig 33 0.1 4.0 -3.6
Matt Skole 28 – 4 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Dustin Garneau 30 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Gregory Infante 30 FA-elig 10 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Lucas Giolito 23 pre-arb 32 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Rob Scahill 31 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tyler Saladino↔ MIL 28 arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
José Ruiz 23 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Nicky Delmonico 25 pre-arb 88 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Michael Kopech 22 – 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Welington Castillo 31 FA-elig 49 -0.1 7.2 -7.5
Danny Farquhar 31 FA-elig 8 -0.1 1.1 -1.4
Héctor Santiago 30 FA-elig 49 -0.1 2.0 -2.4
Alfredo González 25 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Ian Hamilton 23 – 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Daniel Palka 26 – 124 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Chris Beck↔ NYM 27 – 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Thyago Vieira 25 pre-arb 16 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Ryan Burr 24 – 8 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Miguel González 34 FA-elig 3 -0.3 4.8 -5.8
Chris Volstad 31 – 33 -0.3 0.3 -1.4
Tyler Danish 23 pre-arb 7 -0.4 0.1 -1.3
Ryan Cordell 26 – 19 -0.4 0.1 -1.6
Charlie Tilson 25 pre-arb 41 -0.4 0.2 -1.7
Carson Fulmer 24 pre-arb 9 -0.5 0.6 -2.3
Trayce Thompson↔ OAK 27 pre-arb 48 -1.3 0.2 -4.6

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 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.