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

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+11.8 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+17.8 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
35–25 (0.583)
record · made playoffs
+18M
surplus $M (value/$)
19.6
roster fWAR
$125.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Abreu 33 FA-elig 60 2.9 12.7 +8.3
Tim Anderson 27 arb 49 2.3 4.0 +12.8
Lucas Giolito 25 pre-arb 12 2.0 0.2 +14.7
Dallas Keuchel 32 FA-elig 11 1.8 18.0 -4.6
Yasmani Grandal 31 FA-elig 46 1.6 18.2 -6.5
Eloy Jiménez 23 pre-arb 55 1.5 2.3 +8.5
James McCann 30 FA-elig 31 1.4 5.4 +5.2
Luis Robert Jr. 22 pre-arb 56 1.3 5.8 +4.0
Adam Engel 28 pre-arb 36 1.0 0.2 +6.8
Yoán Moncada 25 arb 52 0.9 1.8 +5.0
Evan Marshall 30 FA-elig 23 0.9 1.0 +5.4
Dane Dunning 25 – 7 0.7 0.1 +4.9
Matt Foster 25 – 23 0.6 0.2 +4.3
Alex Colomé 31 FA-elig 21 0.6 10.5 -6.2
Codi Heuer 23 – 21 0.6 0.2 +3.9
Nick Madrigal 23 – 29 0.5 0.2 +3.7
Leury García 29 FA-elig 16 0.4 3.2 +0.0
Aaron Bummer 26 arb 9 0.3 1.0 +1.0
Jimmy Cordero 28 pre-arb 30 0.3 0.2 +1.7
Garrett Crochet 21 – 5 0.2 0.0 +1.8
Danny Mendick 26 pre-arb 33 0.2 0.2 +1.4
Yolmer Sánchez 28 arb 12 0.2 0.1 +1.3
Ross Detwiler 34 FA-elig 16 0.2 0.1 +1.1
Carlos Rodón 27 arb 4 0.1 4.5 -3.6
Alex McRae 27 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.3
Jimmy Lambert 25 – 2 0.0 0.2 +0.1
Bernardo Flores Jr. 24 – 2 0.0 – –
José Ruiz 25 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Brady Lail↔ SEA 26 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jace Fry 26 pre-arb 18 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Jarrod Dyson↔ PIT 35 FA-elig 11 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Ian Hamilton 25 – 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Cheslor Cuthbert 27 arb 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Yermín Mercedes 27 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Nomar Mazara 25 arb 42 -0.0 2.1 -2.4
Gio Gonzalez 34 FA-elig 12 -0.0 4.5 -4.8
Luis González 24 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Kelvin Herrera 30 FA-elig 2 -0.1 8.5 -9.1
Steve Cishek 34 FA-elig 22 -0.2 5.2 -6.5
Nicky Delmonico 27 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.1 -1.4
Drew Anderson 26 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -1.6
Zack Burdi 25 – 8 -0.2 0.1 -1.7
Zack Collins 25 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.1 -1.8
Ryan Goins 32 arb 14 -0.3 0.2 -2.4
Dylan Cease 24 pre-arb 12 -0.3 0.2 -2.6
Jonathan Stiever 23 – 2 -0.3 0.0 -2.6
Reynaldo López 26 pre-arb 8 -0.4 0.2 -3.4
Edwin Encarnación 37 FA-elig 44 -0.5 12.0 -15.4

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 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.