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

2021 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.9
WAB — wins above budget
+14.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
+24M
surplus $M (value/$)
49.8
roster fWAR
$137.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Carlos Rodón 28 FA-elig 24 4.9 3.0 +13.0
Dylan Cease 25 pre-arb 32 4.6 0.6 +14.5
Tim Anderson 28 arb 123 4.3 7.2 +6.7
Lance Lynn 34 FA-elig 28 4.3 9.3 +4.5
Lucas Giolito 26 arb 31 4.2 4.2 +9.4
Yoán Moncada 26 arb 144 3.7 6.8 +5.4
Yasmani Grandal 32 FA-elig 93 3.6 18.2 -6.6
Luis Robert Jr. 23 pre-arb 68 3.4 3.5 +7.6
José Abreu 34 FA-elig 152 2.8 17.7 -8.7
Liam Hendriks 32 FA-elig 69 2.7 11.3 -2.5
Michael Kopech 25 pre-arb 44 1.7 0.6 +5.0
Leury García 30 FA-elig 126 1.5 3.5 +1.4
Garrett Crochet 22 pre-arb 54 1.4 0.6 +3.9
Adam Engel 29 arb 39 1.3 1.4 +3.0
Nick Madrigal 24 – 54 1.3 0.4 +3.7
Aaron Bummer 27 arb 62 1.2 2.0 +2.0
Reynaldo López 27 arb 20 0.7 2.1 +0.2
Dallas Keuchel 33 FA-elig 32 0.7 18.0 -15.7
Codi Heuer↔ CHC 24 – 40 0.6 0.2 +1.6
Ryan Tepera↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 22 0.5 0.3 +1.4
José Ruiz 26 pre-arb 59 0.5 0.6 +1.1
Gavin Sheets 25 – 54 0.5 0.2 +1.3
Eloy Jiménez 24 pre-arb 55 0.3 4.3 -3.3
Jake Burger 25 – 15 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Billy Hamilton 30 FA-elig 71 0.3 1.2 -0.3
Ryan Burr 27 pre-arb 34 0.3 0.3 +0.5
Luis González 25 – 6 0.2 0.0 +0.7
Jake Lamb↔ TOR 30 FA-elig 43 0.1 0.8 -0.4
Evan Marshall 31 FA-elig 27 0.1 2.0 -1.6
Yermín Mercedes 28 pre-arb 68 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Craig Kimbrel↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 24 0.0 6.1 -6.0
Alex McRae 28 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
César Hernández↔ CLE 31 FA-elig 53 0.0 1.8 -1.8
Brian Goodwin 30 arb 72 0.0 0.6 -0.6
Jonathan Stiever 24 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Mike Wright Jr. 31 – 13 -0.0 – –
Romy Gonzalez 24 – 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jimmy Lambert 26 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Seby Zavala 27 pre-arb 37 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Adam Eaton↔ ANA 32 FA-elig 58 -0.1 5.4 -5.7
Matt Foster 26 pre-arb 37 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Jace Fry 27 arb 6 -0.1 0.9 -1.3
Nick Williams 27 – 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Zack Burdi↔ BAL 26 – 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Andrew Vaughn 23 – 127 -0.3 0.6 -1.4
Danny Mendick 27 pre-arb 71 -0.3 0.4 -1.4
Zack Collins 26 pre-arb 78 -1.1 0.5 -4.2

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 46 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.