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

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+20.9
WAB — wins above budget
+25.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
102–60 (0.630)
record · made playoffs
+79M
surplus $M (value/$)
58.6
roster fWAR
$121.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corey Kluber 31 FA-elig 29 7.3 7.7 +16.8
José Ramírez 24 arb 152 7.0 1.0 +22.6
Francisco Lindor 23 pre-arb 159 5.8 0.6 +19.0
Carlos Carrasco 30 FA-elig 32 5.4 6.5 +11.6
Carlos Santana 31 FA-elig 154 2.9 12.0 -2.1
Trevor Bauer 26 arb 32 2.8 3.5 +5.8
Edwin Encarnación 34 FA-elig 157 2.6 14.7 -5.9
Andrew Miller 32 FA-elig 57 2.3 9.0 -1.4
Danny Salazar 27 arb 23 2.1 3.4 +3.8
Josh Tomlin 32 FA-elig 26 2.0 2.5 +4.4
Mike Clevinger 26 pre-arb 27 2.0 0.4 +6.5
Austin Jackson 30 FA-elig 85 1.9 1.5 +4.7
Lonnie Chisenhall 28 FA-elig 82 1.8 4.3 +1.9
Michael Brantley 30 FA-elig 90 1.8 8.4 -2.2
Yan Gomes 29 arb 105 1.8 4.5 +1.7
Roberto Pérez 28 arb 73 1.7 0.7 +5.1
Bryan Shaw 29 FA-elig 79 1.5 4.6 +0.4
Cody Allen 28 arb 69 1.4 7.3 -2.6
Bradley Zimmer 24 – 101 1.0 0.4 +2.9
Joe Smith↔ TOR 33 FA-elig 21 0.8 1.1 +1.5
Nick Goody 25 pre-arb 56 0.6 0.5 +1.7
Jay Bruce↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 43 0.6 3.8 -1.8
Ryan Merritt 25 pre-arb 5 0.5 0.1 +1.7
Tyler Olson 27 pre-arb 30 0.5 0.2 +1.5
Erik González 25 pre-arb 60 0.4 0.4 +1.1
Zach McAllister 29 FA-elig 50 0.4 1.8 -0.4
Dan Otero 32 arb 52 0.4 1.1 +0.3
Jason Kipnis 30 FA-elig 90 0.4 9.2 -7.9
Boone Logan 32 FA-elig 39 0.3 5.5 -4.5
Michael Martinez↔ TBR 34 FA-elig 15 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Craig Breslow↔ MIN 36 FA-elig 7 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Abraham Almonte 28 arb 69 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Greg Allen 24 – 25 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Yandy Díaz 25 pre-arb 49 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Kyle Crockett 25 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Brandon Guyer 31 FA-elig 70 -0.0 2.0 -2.2
Shawn Armstrong 26 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Tyler Naquin 26 pre-arb 19 -0.2 0.6 -1.4
Francisco Mejía 21 – 11 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Daniel Robertson 31 – 32 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Gio Urshela 25 – 67 -0.9 – –

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 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.