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GM: Chris Antonetti (since 2011)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.1
WAB — wins above budget
+8.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–70 (0.568)
record · made playoffs
+25M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.8
roster fWAR
$81.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jason Kipnis 26 pre-arb 149 5.1 0.5 +13.1
Yan Gomes 25 pre-arb 88 4.4 0.5 +11.3
Justin Masterson 28 arb 32 3.8 5.7 +4.5
Ubaldo Jiménez 29 FA-elig 32 3.5 5.8 +3.7
Corey Kluber 27 pre-arb 26 2.9 0.5 +7.3
Carlos Santana 27 arb 154 2.7 0.6 +6.6
Scott Kazmir 29 FA-elig 29 2.6 2.8 +4.2
Ryan Raburn 32 FA-elig 87 2.2 1.0 +5.0
Nick Swisher 32 FA-elig 145 2.0 11.0 -5.5
Michael Brantley 26 arb 151 1.9 0.5 +4.5
Michael Bourn 30 FA-elig 130 1.7 7.0 -2.4
Zach McAllister 25 pre-arb 24 1.5 0.5 +3.6
Asdrúbal Cabrera 27 FA-elig 136 1.3 6.5 -2.9
Danny Salazar 23 – 10 1.2 0.1 +3.0
Drew Stubbs 28 arb 146 1.1 2.8 +0.2
Cody Allen 24 pre-arb 77 1.1 0.5 +2.4
Bryan Shaw 25 pre-arb 70 1.0 0.5 +2.3
Lonnie Chisenhall 24 pre-arb 94 0.6 0.5 +1.1
Matt Carson 31 pre-arb 20 0.6 0.1 +1.5
Joe Smith 29 FA-elig 70 0.5 3.1 -1.7
Mike Aviles 32 arb 124 0.3 2.2 -1.3
Matt Albers 30 FA-elig 56 0.3 1.8 -0.9
Carlos Carrasco 26 arb 15 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Marc Rzepczynski↔ STL 27 arb 27 0.2 0.8 -0.2
José Ramírez 20 – 15 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Mark Reynolds↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 99 0.2 4.4 -3.9
Rich Hill 33 FA-elig 63 0.2 1.0 -0.6
Joe Martinez 30 – 2 0.1 – –
David Huff↔ NYY 28 arb 3 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Lou Marson 27 arb 3 0.0 1.0 -0.9
C.C. Lee 26 – 8 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Josh Tomlin 28 arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Ezequiel Carrera↔ PHI 26 – 2 -0.0 – –
Preston Guilmet 25 – 4 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Clay Rapada 32 – 4 -0.0 – –
Matt Langwell↔ ARI 27 – 5 -0.0 – –
Omir Santos 32 – 1 -0.0 – –
Blake Wood 27 arb 2 -0.0 0.6 -0.7
Kelly Shoppach↔ SEA 33 FA-elig 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Jason Kubel↔ ARI 31 FA-elig 8 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Nick Hagadone 27 pre-arb 36 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Scott Barnes 25 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
John McDonald↔ BOS 38 – 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Cord Phelps 26 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Trevor Bauer 22 pre-arb 4 -0.4 1.2 -2.1
Vinnie Pestano 28 arb 37 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Brett Myers 32 FA-elig 4 -0.6 7.0 -8.7
Jason Giambi 42 FA-elig 71 -0.7 0.8 -2.6
Chris Perez 27 arb 54 -0.8 7.3 -9.5

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 of them (90%). 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.