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President of baseball ops: Chris Antonetti (since 2016) · GM: Mike Chernoff (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+18.0
WAB — wins above budget
+13.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
94–67 (0.584)
record · won pennant
+54M
surplus $M (value/$)
41.8
roster fWAR
$82.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Francisco Lindor 22 pre-arb 158 5.2 0.5 +16.3
José Ramírez 23 arb 152 5.0 0.5 +15.7
Corey Kluber 30 arb 32 5.0 4.7 +11.5
Jason Kipnis 29 arb 156 4.0 6.2 +6.9
Carlos Santana 30 FA-elig 158 3.3 8.2 +2.5
Trevor Bauer 25 pre-arb 35 2.5 1.7 +6.5
Danny Salazar 26 arb 25 2.4 0.5 +7.4
Carlos Carrasco 29 FA-elig 25 2.4 4.5 +3.3
Tyler Naquin 25 pre-arb 116 2.0 0.5 +6.0
Dan Otero 31 arb 62 1.6 0.5 +4.5
Mike Napoli 34 FA-elig 150 1.2 7.0 -3.1
Rajai Davis 35 FA-elig 134 1.1 5.2 -1.6
Josh Tomlin 31 FA-elig 30 1.1 2.2 +1.4
Lonnie Chisenhall 27 arb 126 1.1 2.7 +0.8
Andrew Miller↔ NYY 31 FA-elig 26 1.1 3.3 +0.1
Cody Allen 27 arb 67 1.0 4.2 -0.9
Brandon Guyer↔ TBR 30 arb 38 1.0 0.4 +2.8
Roberto Pérez 27 pre-arb 61 1.0 0.5 +2.6
Abraham Almonte 27 pre-arb 67 0.5 0.3 +1.4
Bryan Shaw 28 arb 75 0.4 2.8 -1.5
Zach McAllister 28 arb 53 0.4 1.3 -0.1
Kyle Crockett 24 pre-arb 29 0.3 0.2 +0.9
Tommy Hunter↔ BAL 29 FA-elig 21 0.3 1.3 -0.3
Ryan Merritt 24 – 4 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Mike Clevinger 25 – 17 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Cody Anderson 25 pre-arb 19 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Erik González 24 – 21 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Perci Garner 27 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Joba Chamberlain 30 FA-elig 20 0.1 1.0 -0.7
Marlon Byrd 38 FA-elig 34 0.1 1.0 -0.8
TJ House 26 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Shawn Armstrong 25 pre-arb 10 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Coco Crisp↔ OAK 36 FA-elig 20 -0.0 1.8 -1.8
Adam Plutko 24 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Michael Brantley 29 FA-elig 11 -0.1 7.4 -7.6
Adam Moore 32 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Ross Detwiler↔ OAK 30 FA-elig 7 -0.1 0.4 -0.9
Jesús Aguilar 26 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Joe Colón J 26 – 11 -0.1 – –
Collin Cowgill 30 arb 9 -0.1 1.0 -1.5
Tom Gorzelanny 33 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Michael Martinez↔ BOS 33 pre-arb 59 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Shawn Morimando 23 – 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Austin Adams 29 pre-arb 19 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Chris Gimenez 33 arb 68 -0.2 0.8 -1.6
Jeff Manship 31 FA-elig 53 -0.3 0.8 -1.8
Juan Uribe 37 FA-elig 73 -0.5 4.0 -5.5
Yan Gomes 28 arb 74 -0.8 2.5 -5.2

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