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

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-21.6
WAB — wins above budget
-22.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
61–101 (0.377)
record
-111M
surplus $M (value/$)
12.6
roster fWAR
$161.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Luis Robert Jr. 25 arb 145 4.9 9.5 +10.0
Dylan Cease 27 arb 33 3.6 5.7 +8.5
Mike Clevinger 32 FA-elig 24 2.2 8.0 +0.5
Lucas Giolito↔ ANA 28 FA-elig 21 1.6 6.6 -0.4
Gregory Santos 23 pre-arb 60 1.5 0.7 +5.3
Elvis Andrus 34 FA-elig 112 1.2 3.0 +1.9
Jake Burger↔ MIA 27 – 88 1.2 0.3 +4.5
Yoán Moncada 28 FA-elig 92 1.2 17.8 -13.2
Aaron Bummer 29 FA-elig 61 0.7 3.8 -0.8
Lance Lynn↔ LAD 36 FA-elig 21 0.6 12.1 -9.7
Eloy Jiménez 26 arb 120 0.6 10.3 -8.0
Joe Kelly↔ LAD 35 FA-elig 31 0.5 6.6 -4.6
Andrew Vaughn 25 pre-arb 152 0.5 0.8 +1.2
Touki Toussaint↔ CLE 27 pre-arb 19 0.4 0.4 +1.2
Bryan Shaw 35 FA-elig 38 0.4 0.3 +1.1
Seby Zavala↔ ARI 29 arb 66 0.3 0.7 +0.6
Lane Ramsey 26 – 21 0.3 0.2 +0.8
José Ureña↔ COL 31 FA-elig 5 0.2 1.5 -0.5
Reynaldo López↔ ANA 29 FA-elig 43 0.1 2.3 -1.9
Luis Patiño↔ TBR 23 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Tanner Banks 31 pre-arb 32 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Zach Remillard 29 – 54 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Sammy Peralta 25 – 16 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Yasmani Grandal 34 FA-elig 118 0.1 18.2 -18.0
Nicholas Padilla 26 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Yohan Ramírez↔ PIT 28 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.1 +0.0
José Rodríguez 22 – 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Billy Hamilton 32 FA-elig 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jesse Scholtens 29 – 26 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Keynan Middleton↔ NYY 29 – 39 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Jake Marisnick↔ DET 32 FA-elig 9 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Edgar Navarro 25 – 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Liam Hendriks 34 FA-elig 5 -0.1 14.3 -14.6
Kendall Graveman↔ HOU 32 FA-elig 45 -0.1 5.3 -5.6
Deivi García↔ NYY 24 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Adam Haseley 27 pre-arb 28 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Garrett Crochet 24 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Jake Diekman↔ TBR 36 FA-elig 13 -0.1 0.9 -1.5
Tim Anderson 30 FA-elig 123 -0.2 12.5 -13.2
Alex Colomé 34 FA-elig 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Brent Honeywell↔ SDP 28 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Carlos Pérez 26 pre-arb 27 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Tyler Naquin 32 – 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Declan Cronin 25 – 9 -0.3 0.2 -1.4
Hanser Alberto 30 FA-elig 30 -0.3 0.5 -1.7
Romy Gonzalez 26 pre-arb 44 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
Clint Frazier 28 arb 33 -0.3 0.2 -1.5
Andrew Benintendi 28 FA-elig 151 -0.3 8.6 -10.0
Trayce Thompson↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 36 -0.4 0.7 -2.4
José Ruiz↔ ARI 28 FA-elig 4 -0.4 0.1 -1.7
Jimmy Lambert 28 arb 35 -0.6 0.7 -3.0
Lenyn Sosa 23 pre-arb 52 -0.6 0.3 -2.8
Korey Lee 24 pre-arb 24 -0.9 0.1 -3.7
Michael Kopech 27 arb 30 -1.0 2.0 -6.0
Oscar Colás 24 – 75 -1.0 0.4 -4.5
Gavin Sheets 27 pre-arb 118 -1.5 0.7 -6.7

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.