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GM: Chris Antonetti (since 2011)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.9
WAB — wins above budget
+12.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–80 (0.503)
record
+53M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.1
roster fWAR
$74.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corey Kluber 29 arb 32 5.5 1.2 +16.1
Carlos Carrasco 28 FA-elig 30 5.0 2.3 +13.4
Jason Kipnis 28 arb 141 4.5 4.2 +10.0
Francisco Lindor 21 – 99 4.0 0.3 +12.2
Michael Brantley 28 FA-elig 137 3.5 5.9 +5.1
Danny Salazar 25 pre-arb 30 3.0 0.5 +8.9
Cody Allen 26 arb 70 2.6 0.5 +7.8
Carlos Santana 29 arb 154 2.1 6.0 +0.6
Roberto Pérez 26 pre-arb 70 2.1 0.5 +6.1
Trevor Bauer 24 arb 31 1.9 1.9 +4.0
Lonnie Chisenhall 26 arb 106 1.5 2.2 +2.5
Ryan Raburn 34 FA-elig 82 1.3 2.5 +1.7
Abraham Almonte↔ SDP 26 pre-arb 51 1.2 0.1 +3.7
Cody Anderson 24 – 15 1.0 0.3 +2.9
Zach McAllister 27 arb 61 0.9 0.5 +2.4
Jeff Manship 30 pre-arb 32 0.6 0.3 +1.7
Yan Gomes 27 arb 95 0.6 1.0 +0.8
Josh Tomlin 30 arb 10 0.5 1.5 +0.2
José Ramírez 22 pre-arb 97 0.5 0.5 +1.0
David Murphy↔ ANA 33 FA-elig 84 0.4 3.8 -2.7
Michael Bourn↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 95 0.3 9.1 -8.1
Marc Rzepczynski↔ SDP 29 FA-elig 45 0.3 1.5 -0.7
Nick Hagadone 29 arb 36 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Bryan Shaw 27 arb 74 0.2 1.6 -0.8
Ryan Webb 29 arb 40 0.1 0.4 -0.0
Kyle Crockett 23 pre-arb 31 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Anthony Swarzak 29 FA-elig 10 0.1 0.9 -0.6
Gavin Floyd 32 FA-elig 7 0.1 4.0 -3.7
Austin Adams 28 pre-arb 28 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Shawn Armstrong 24 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Jerry Sands 27 pre-arb 50 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Chris Johnson↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 27 0.0 2.0 -1.8
Giovanni Soto 24 – 6 0.0 0.1 +0.0
C.C. Lee 28 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jesús Aguilar 25 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Gio Urshela 23 – 81 -0.0 – –
Adam Moore 31 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Michael Martinez 32 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Toru Murata 30 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
TJ House 25 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Bruce Chen 38 – 2 -0.2 – –
Shaun Marcum 33 FA-elig 7 -0.2 1.0 -1.7
Brandon Moss↔ STL 31 FA-elig 94 -0.3 4.2 -5.1
Brett Hayes 31 arb 14 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Tyler Holt↔ CIN 26 – 9 -0.3 0.0 -1.0
Zach Walters 25 pre-arb 12 -0.5 0.5 -1.9
Scott Atchison 39 FA-elig 23 -0.5 0.9 -2.3
Nick Swisher↔ ATL 34 FA-elig 30 -0.7 5.9 -8.2
Mike Aviles 34 FA-elig 98 -0.9 3.5 -6.4

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 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.