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GM: Chris Antonetti (since 2011)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.6
WAB — wins above budget
+4.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
+20M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.1
roster fWAR
$79.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corey Kluber 28 arb 36 7.2 0.5 +20.4
Michael Brantley 27 arb 156 6.5 1.5 +17.5
Yan Gomes 26 pre-arb 135 4.9 0.6 +13.8
Carlos Carrasco 27 arb 40 3.2 0.5 +8.8
Carlos Santana 28 arb 152 2.3 3.5 +3.3
Danny Salazar 24 pre-arb 20 1.8 0.5 +4.6
Lonnie Chisenhall 25 arb 142 1.6 0.5 +4.1
Zach McAllister 26 arb 22 1.4 0.5 +3.7
Trevor Bauer 23 pre-arb 26 1.4 1.2 +2.8
Cody Allen 25 pre-arb 76 1.2 0.5 +2.9
TJ House 24 pre-arb 19 1.1 0.3 +3.0
José Ramírez 21 pre-arb 68 1.0 0.2 +2.7
Asdrúbal Cabrera↔ WSN 28 FA-elig 97 0.9 6.6 -3.9
Josh Tomlin 29 arb 26 0.9 0.8 +2.0
Justin Masterson↔ STL 29 FA-elig 19 0.9 6.6 -4.1
Scott Atchison 38 FA-elig 70 0.8 0.8 +1.6
Jason Kipnis 27 arb 129 0.7 2.2 -0.2
Marc Rzepczynski 28 arb 73 0.6 1.4 +0.4
Roberto Pérez 25 – 29 0.6 0.1 +1.6
Michael Bourn 31 FA-elig 106 0.5 13.5 -12.0
Bryan Shaw 26 arb 80 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Nyjer Morgan 33 – 15 0.4 0.6 +0.4
Nick Hagadone 28 arb 35 0.3 0.3 +0.7
George Kottaras↔ STL 31 – 10 0.3 0.0 +0.8
Tyler Holt 25 pre-arb 36 0.3 0.2 +0.6
Kyle Crockett 22 – 44 0.3 0.3 +0.5
Vinnie Pestano↔ ANA 29 arb 13 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Austin Adams 27 – 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Chris Dickerson 32 – 41 -0.0 – –
Blake Wood 28 arb 7 -0.1 0.6 -0.7
C.C. Lee 27 pre-arb 37 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
David Murphy 32 FA-elig 129 -0.1 5.5 -5.9
Justin Sellers 28 arb 17 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Bryan Price 27 – 3 -0.2 – –
Mark Lowe 31 FA-elig 7 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Chris Gimenez↔ TEX 31 arb 8 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Josh Outman↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 31 -0.3 1.0 -1.8
Zach Walters↔ WSN 24 pre-arb 30 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Elliot Johnson 30 FA-elig 7 -0.3 0.9 -1.9
Mike Aviles 33 FA-elig 113 -0.4 3.5 -4.5
John Axford↔ PIT 31 arb 49 -0.5 3.6 -4.9
Jason Giambi 43 FA-elig 26 -0.5 1.0 -2.4
JB Shuck↔ ANA 27 arb 16 -0.5 0.2 -1.8
Jesús Aguilar 24 – 19 -0.6 0.1 -1.9
Ryan Raburn 33 FA-elig 74 -1.3 2.2 -6.0
Nick Swisher 33 FA-elig 97 -1.8 15.0 -20.2

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 of them (96%). 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.