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GM: Chris Getz (since 2024)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-37.6
WAB — wins above budget
-27.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
41–121 (0.253)
record
-109M
surplus $M (value/$)
3.6
roster fWAR
$124.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Garrett Crochet 25 arb 32 4.6 0.8 +18.5
Erick Fedde↔ STL 31 FA-elig 21 2.6 5.1 +5.6
Chris Flexen 29 FA-elig 33 1.3 1.8 +3.7
Paul DeJong↔ KCR 30 FA-elig 102 1.1 1.3 +3.2
Jonathan Cannon 23 pre-arb 23 1.1 0.7 +3.7
Nicky Lopez 29 arb 124 0.9 4.3 -0.6
Tanner Banks↔ PHI 32 pre-arb 41 0.9 0.5 +3.2
Davis Martin 27 pre-arb 11 0.6 0.7 +1.9
Luis Robert Jr. 26 arb 100 0.6 12.5 -10.2
Gus Varland↔ LAD 27 pre-arb 19 0.5 0.5 +1.6
Sean Burke 24 – 4 0.4 0.1 +1.7
Michael Soroka 26 FA-elig 25 0.4 3.0 -1.5
Yoán Moncada 29 FA-elig 12 0.3 24.8 -23.6
Chad Kuhl 31 – 31 0.3 0.8 +0.3
Zach Remillard 30 pre-arb 15 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Tim Hill↔ NYY 34 FA-elig 27 0.2 0.8 +0.2
Justin Anderson 31 pre-arb 56 0.2 0.5 +0.3
John Brebbia↔ ATL 34 FA-elig 54 0.2 3.7 -2.9
Jared Shuster 25 pre-arb 39 0.2 0.7 -0.0
Tommy Pham↔ KCR 36 – 70 0.2 1.3 -0.6
Kevin Pillar↔ ANA 35 FA-elig 17 0.1 0.2 +0.4
Prelander Berroa 24 pre-arb 17 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Fraser Ellard 26 – 25 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Lenyn Sosa 24 pre-arb 100 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Brooks Baldwin 23 – 33 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Zach DeLoach 25 pre-arb 22 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Oscar Colás 25 pre-arb 13 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Jake Eder 25 – 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jairo Iriarte 22 – 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Sammy Peralta 26 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Matt Foster 29 arb 6 -0.1 0.8 -1.1
Drew Thorpe 23 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.7 -1.1
Deivi García 25 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Jake Woodford↔ PIT 27 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Mike Clevinger 33 – 4 -0.1 4.0 -4.5
Rafael Ortega 33 arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Ky Bush 24 – 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.8
Andrew Vaughn 26 arb 149 -0.1 3.2 -3.8
Danny Mendick 30 arb 47 -0.1 0.9 -1.5
Andrew Benintendi 29 FA-elig 135 -0.1 17.1 -17.7
Bryan Shaw 36 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.8 -1.4
Touki Toussaint 28 arb 11 -0.2 1.3 -1.9
Duke Ellis↔ NYY 26 – 8 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Brad Keller↔ BOS 28 – 5 -0.2 0.3 -1.4
Michael Kopech↔ LAD 28 FA-elig 43 -0.3 1.9 -3.0
Jacob Amaya↔ HOU 25 pre-arb 23 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
Robbie Grossman↔ KCR 34 – 25 -0.3 0.3 -1.7
Korey Lee 25 pre-arb 125 -0.4 0.7 -2.3
Jordan Leasure 25 pre-arb 33 -0.4 0.7 -2.5
Dominic Leone 32 FA-elig 23 -0.4 1.5 -3.3
Eloy Jiménez↔ BAL 27 arb 65 -0.4 9.2 -11.0
Bryan Ramos 22 pre-arb 32 -0.4 0.7 -2.5
Enyel De Los Santos↔ NYY 28 FA-elig 15 -0.5 0.4 -2.5
Nick Nastrini 24 pre-arb 9 -0.5 0.7 -2.9
Chuckie Robinson 29 pre-arb 26 -0.5 0.7 -3.0
Nick Senzel↔ WSN 29 arb 10 -0.5 0.3 -2.6
Corey Julks 28 pre-arb 66 -0.6 0.8 -3.2
Braden Shewmake 26 pre-arb 29 -0.7 0.7 -3.7
Steven Wilson 29 pre-arb 40 -0.8 0.8 -3.9
Dominic Fletcher 26 pre-arb 72 -0.8 0.7 -4.1
Gavin Sheets 28 arb 139 -0.8 0.8 -4.2
Miguel Vargas↔ LAD 24 pre-arb 42 -1.2 0.4 -5.3
Martín Maldonado 37 FA-elig 48 -1.5 4.0 -10.3

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.