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

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.6
WAB — wins above budget
-6.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
72–89 (0.447)
record
-14M
surplus $M (value/$)
22.8
roster fWAR
$88.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Lucas Giolito 24 arb 29 5.2 0.6 +16.4
Yoán Moncada 24 arb 132 5.2 0.6 +16.3
Tim Anderson 26 arb 123 4.5 1.4 +13.3
Reynaldo López 25 arb 33 2.4 0.6 +7.1
Iván Nova 32 FA-elig 34 2.0 9.2 -2.5
James McCann 29 arb 118 1.9 2.5 +3.9
José Abreu 32 arb 159 1.9 16.0 -9.9
Aaron Bummer 25 pre-arb 58 1.3 0.5 +3.9
Leury García 28 FA-elig 140 1.3 1.6 +2.7
Eloy Jiménez 22 pre-arb 122 1.1 1.8 +1.6
Carlos Rodón 26 arb 7 0.9 4.2 -1.3
Adam Engel 27 pre-arb 89 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Dylan Cease 23 – 14 0.7 0.3 +2.1
Alex Colomé 30 FA-elig 62 0.7 7.3 -5.1
Evan Marshall 29 pre-arb 55 0.5 0.5 +1.3
Jimmy Cordero↔ TOR 27 pre-arb 30 0.4 0.2 +1.2
Kelvin Herrera 29 FA-elig 57 0.4 8.5 -7.2
Yolmer Sánchez 27 arb 149 0.3 4.6 -3.5
Ryan Cordell 27 pre-arb 97 0.3 0.6 +0.4
Juan Minaya 28 pre-arb 22 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Ryan Burr 25 pre-arb 16 0.1 0.6 -0.1
Danny Mendick 25 – 16 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Thyago Vieira 26 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.1 +0.2
José Ruiz 24 pre-arb 40 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Ryan Goins 31 arb 52 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Jace Fry 25 pre-arb 68 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Josh Osich 30 pre-arb 57 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Héctor Santiago↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 11 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Dylan Covey 27 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Odrisamer Despaigne 32 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Nate Jones 33 FA-elig 13 -0.1 4.7 -5.0
Caleb Frare 25 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Seby Zavala 25 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Carson Fulmer 25 pre-arb 20 -0.2 0.3 -1.1
Charlie Tilson 26 pre-arb 54 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Manny Banuelos 28 arb 16 -0.4 0.6 -1.8
Ervin Santana 36 FA-elig 3 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Zack Collins 24 – 27 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
AJ Reed 26 pre-arb 14 -0.5 0.1 -1.7
Ross Detwiler 33 FA-elig 18 -0.6 0.1 -2.0
Matt Skole 29 pre-arb 27 -0.6 0.2 -2.3
Nicky Delmonico 26 – 21 -0.7 0.1 -2.2
José Rondon↔ BAL 25 arb 55 -0.7 0.6 -2.8
Jon Jay 34 FA-elig 47 -0.9 4.0 -6.9
Welington Castillo 32 FA-elig 72 -1.0 7.2 -10.4
Yonder Alonso↔ COL 32 – 67 -1.2 4.3 -8.2
Daniel Palka 27 pre-arb 30 -1.3 0.6 -4.8

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.