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

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.8
WAB — wins above budget
-5.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–81 (0.500)
record
-74M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.3
roster fWAR
$191.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dylan Cease 26 pre-arb 32 4.4 0.8 +15.2
José Abreu 35 FA-elig 157 3.8 19.7 -5.8
Johnny Cueto 36 FA-elig 25 2.4 3.2 +5.5
Tim Anderson 29 FA-elig 79 2.2 9.5 -1.3
Luis Robert Jr. 24 pre-arb 98 2.1 6.0 +1.8
Reynaldo López 28 FA-elig 61 2.0 2.6 +4.8
Seby Zavala 28 pre-arb 61 2.0 0.4 +6.9
Elvis Andrus↔ OAK 33 FA-elig 43 1.9 4.1 +2.8
Lance Lynn 35 FA-elig 21 1.8 18.5 -11.8
Lucas Giolito 27 FA-elig 30 1.8 7.5 -1.0
Eloy Jiménez 25 arb 84 1.6 7.3 -1.3
Liam Hendriks 33 FA-elig 58 1.6 13.3 -7.6
Josh Harrison 34 FA-elig 119 1.4 4.0 +1.3
Michael Kopech 26 pre-arb 25 1.0 0.7 +3.0
Yoán Moncada 27 FA-elig 104 0.8 13.8 -11.0
Danny Mendick 28 pre-arb 31 0.8 0.7 +2.1
Kendall Graveman 31 FA-elig 65 0.7 8.0 -5.5
Davis Martin 25 – 14 0.6 0.2 +1.9
AJ Pollock 34 FA-elig 138 0.6 14.5 -12.4
Joe Kelly 34 FA-elig 43 0.5 7.0 -5.2
Vince Velasquez 30 FA-elig 27 0.4 3.0 -1.5
Jake Burger 26 pre-arb 51 0.4 0.4 +0.9
Jimmy Lambert 27 pre-arb 42 0.3 0.5 +0.7
Aaron Bummer 28 arb 32 0.3 2.5 -1.4
Tanner Banks 30 – 35 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Gavin Sheets 26 pre-arb 124 0.2 0.7 +0.1
Reese McGuire↔ BOS 27 – 53 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Matt Foster 27 pre-arb 48 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Kyle Crick 29 arb 14 0.1 1.2 -0.8
Anderson Severino 27 – 6 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Romy Gonzalez 25 pre-arb 32 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Adam Haseley 26 pre-arb 14 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Carlos Pérez 25 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Adam Engel 30 arb 119 -0.1 2.0 -2.4
Jake Diekman↔ BOS 35 FA-elig 26 -0.1 1.3 -1.8
José Ruiz 27 pre-arb 63 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Mark Payton 30 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Bennett Sousa 27 – 25 -0.3 0.3 -1.3
Lenyn Sosa 22 – 11 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Ryan Burr 28 – 8 -0.3 0.2 -1.4
Dallas Keuchel↔ ARI 34 FA-elig 8 -0.4 10.3 -11.6
Yasmani Grandal 33 FA-elig 99 -0.5 18.2 -20.1
Andrew Vaughn 24 pre-arb 134 -0.6 0.7 -2.9
Leury García 31 FA-elig 97 -1.1 5.5 -9.5

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.