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GM: Chris Antonetti (since 2011)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.0
WAB — wins above budget
-1.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
+6M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.9
roster fWAR
$60.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Justin Masterson 26 arb 34 5.1 0.5 +11.9
Asdrúbal Cabrera 25 arb 151 3.7 2.0 +7.0
Jack Hannahan 31 arb 110 2.4 0.5 +5.3
Josh Tomlin 26 pre-arb 27 2.2 0.4 +5.0
Vinnie Pestano 26 pre-arb 68 1.6 0.4 +3.6
Shin-Soo Choo 28 FA-elig 85 1.5 4.0 -0.2
Roberto Hernandez 30 arb 32 1.5 6.3 -2.7
Carlos Carrasco 24 pre-arb 21 1.4 0.4 +2.9
Michael Brantley 24 pre-arb 114 1.3 0.4 +2.8
Joe Smith 27 arb 71 1.3 0.9 +2.3
Travis Hafner 34 FA-elig 94 1.3 13.0 -9.9
Ubaldo Jiménez↔ COL 27 arb 11 1.1 1.0 +1.7
Jeanmar Gómez 23 pre-arb 11 0.9 0.4 +1.7
Rafael Perez 29 arb 71 0.8 1.3 +0.7
Jason Kipnis 24 – 36 0.8 0.4 +1.6
David Huff 26 pre-arb 11 0.8 0.4 +1.4
Lonnie Chisenhall 22 – 66 0.7 0.4 +1.4
Shelley Duncan 31 arb 76 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Jim Thome↔ MIN 40 FA-elig 22 0.5 0.7 +0.6
Jason Donald 26 pre-arb 39 0.5 0.4 +0.8
Carlos Santana 25 pre-arb 155 0.5 0.4 +0.8
Chris Perez 25 arb 64 0.5 2.2 -1.1
Zach McAllister 23 – 4 0.5 0.4 +0.7
Ezequiel Carrera 24 – 68 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Tony Sipp 27 pre-arb 69 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Frank Herrmann 27 pre-arb 40 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Grady Sizemore 28 FA-elig 71 0.2 7.7 -7.2
Nick Hagadone 25 arb 9 0.2 0.4 +0.0
Zach Putnam 23 – 8 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Travis Buck 27 arb 50 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Trevor Crowe 27 pre-arb 15 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Mitch Talbot 27 arb 12 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Corey Kluber 25 – 3 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Justin Germano 28 FA-elig 9 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Alex White↔ COL 22 – 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Chad Durbin 33 FA-elig 56 -0.2 0.8 -1.3
Kosuke Fukudome↔ CHC 34 arb 59 -0.2 5.9 -6.4
Josh Judy 25 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Luis Valbuena 25 pre-arb 17 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Jerad Head 28 – 10 -0.2 – –
Adam Everett 34 FA-elig 34 -0.4 0.7 -1.7
Matt LaPorta 26 pre-arb 107 -0.6 0.4 -2.0
Orlando Cabrera↔ SFG 36 FA-elig 91 -0.7 0.7 -2.4
Austin Kearns 31 FA-elig 57 -0.8 1.3 -3.3
Cord Phelps 24 pre-arb 35 -0.9 0.4 -2.6
Lou Marson 25 arb 79 -1.3 0.4 -3.6

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 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 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.