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GM: John Hart (since 1992)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.3
WAB — wins above budget
+8.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record
-11M
surplus $M (value/$)
47.6
roster fWAR
$78.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roberto Alomar 32 FA-elig 155 5.0 7.2 -0.1
Manny Ramirez 28 FA-elig 118 4.8 4.2 +2.5
Travis Fryman 31 FA-elig 155 4.6 5.5 +0.9
Jim Thome 29 FA-elig 158 4.4 8.2 -1.9
Chuck Finley 37 FA-elig 34 4.3 7.9 -1.8
Dave Burba 33 FA-elig 32 4.2 5.0 +0.9
Bartolo Colon 27 arb 30 4.2 1.1 +4.8
Kenny Lofton 33 FA-elig 137 3.0 7.5 -3.3
Omar Vizquel 33 FA-elig 156 2.5 3.0 +0.6
David Justice↔ NYY 34 FA-elig 68 2.0 3.3 -0.4
Steve Karsay 28 FA-elig 72 1.8 1.2 +1.4
Paul Shuey 29 FA-elig 57 1.5 1.6 +0.5
Einar Díaz 27 arb 75 0.9 0.2 +1.0
Jason Bere↔ MIL 29 FA-elig 11 0.9 0.3 +0.9
David Segui↔ TEX 33 FA-elig 57 0.8 1.6 -0.5
Russell Branyan 24 pre-arb 67 0.8 0.2 +0.9
Justin Speier 26 pre-arb 47 0.7 0.2 +0.8
Steve Woodard↔ MIL 25 arb 13 0.7 0.1 +0.8
Jaret Wright 24 arb 9 0.6 1.1 -0.2
Bob Wickman↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 26 0.6 0.9 -0.0
Jamie Brewington 28 arb 26 0.6 0.2 +0.6
Sandy Alomar Jr. 34 FA-elig 97 0.4 2.7 -2.1
Steve Reed 35 FA-elig 57 0.3 1.6 -1.1
Ricardo Rincon 30 arb 35 0.3 1.0 -0.6
Tom Martin 30 arb 31 0.2 0.2 +0.0
John McDonald 25 – 9 0.2 – –
Cameron Cairncross 28 – 15 0.2 – –
Enrique Wilson↔ PIT 26 arb 40 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Chris Nichting 34 – 7 0.1 – –
Mark Watson 26 – 6 0.1 – –
Mark Whiten 33 – 6 0.1 – –
Jacob Cruz 27 arb 11 0.1 0.2 -0.2
Willie Martinez 22 – 1 0.0 – –
Dave Roberts 28 – 19 0.0 – –
Paul Rigdon↔ MIL 24 – 5 0.0 – –
Ricky Ledee↔ NYY 26 pre-arb 17 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Andrew Lorraine↔ CHC 27 FA-elig 10 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jim Brower 27 – 17 0.0 – –
Jaime Navarro↔ MIL 33 FA-elig 7 -0.0 2.9 -2.9
Chris Haney 31 – 1 -0.0 – –
Tim Drew 21 – 3 -0.0 – –
Brian Williams↔ CHC 31 FA-elig 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Charles Nagy 33 FA-elig 11 -0.0 6.0 -6.1
Alan Newman 30 – 1 -0.1 – –
Mike Mohler↔ STL 31 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Scott Kamieniecki↔ ATL 36 FA-elig 26 -0.1 0.9 -1.1
Sean DePaula 26 – 13 -0.2 – –
Bobby Witt 36 FA-elig 7 -0.2 0.6 -0.8
Bill Selby 30 arb 30 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Kane Davis↔ MIL 25 – 5 -0.3 – –
Alex Ramirez↔ PIT 25 pre-arb 41 -0.3 0.1 -0.6
Chan Perry 27 – 13 -0.3 – –
Jolbert Cabrera 27 pre-arb 100 -0.3 0.2 -0.7
Richie Sexson↔ MIL 25 arb 91 -0.4 0.2 -0.8
Wil Cordero↔ PIT 28 FA-elig 38 -0.6 0.6 -1.6

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (73%). 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 CLE
Kenny Lofton199142.5
Corey Kluber201034.6
Grady Sizemore200230.3
Carlos Carrasco200925.5
Travis Hafner200222.3
Carlos Santana200821.6
Michael Brantley200820.0
Shin-Soo Choo200619.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Jeff Kent199630.9
Brandon Phillips200630.1
Brian Giles199825.4
Von Hayes198222.3
Yandy Díaz201819.5
Rick Sutcliffe198417.2
Jeromy Burnitz199617.1
Sean Casey199815.9
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.