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

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.9
WAB — wins above budget
+12.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
91–71 (0.562)
record · made playoffs
+20M
surplus $M (value/$)
47.8
roster fWAR
$142.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Francisco Lindor 24 arb 158 7.8 0.6 +25.9
José Ramírez 25 arb 157 7.6 2.8 +23.1
Trevor Bauer 27 FA-elig 28 5.8 6.5 +13.2
Corey Kluber 32 FA-elig 33 5.4 10.7 +7.7
Carlos Carrasco 31 FA-elig 32 5.3 8.0 +10.1
Mike Clevinger 27 pre-arb 32 4.1 0.6 +13.5
Michael Brantley 31 FA-elig 143 3.5 11.5 +0.4
Shane Bieber 23 – 20 2.8 0.3 +9.2
Yan Gomes 30 FA-elig 112 2.6 6.0 +3.0
Jason Kipnis 31 FA-elig 147 1.4 13.7 -9.1
Edwin Encarnación 35 FA-elig 137 1.3 18.7 -14.4
Oliver Pérez 36 FA-elig 51 1.0 1.8 +1.8
Josh Donaldson↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 16 0.5 7.1 -5.3
Greg Allen 25 pre-arb 91 0.5 0.3 +1.5
Brad Hand↔ SDP 28 FA-elig 28 0.5 1.7 -0.0
Lonnie Chisenhall 29 FA-elig 29 0.4 5.6 -4.2
Tyler Olson 28 arb 43 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Andrew Miller 33 FA-elig 37 0.3 9.0 -7.8
Yandy Díaz 26 pre-arb 39 0.3 0.2 +1.0
Roberto Pérez 29 arb 62 0.3 1.6 -0.5
Bradley Zimmer 25 pre-arb 34 0.3 0.6 +0.3
Brandon Guyer 32 FA-elig 104 0.3 2.8 -1.9
Leonys Martin↔ DET 30 FA-elig 6 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Evan Marshall 28 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Brandon Barnes 32 arb 19 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Adam Rosales 35 FA-elig 13 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Yonder Alonso 31 FA-elig 145 0.1 7.0 -6.7
Melky Cabrera 33 FA-elig 78 0.0 1.0 -0.8
Oliver Drake↔ ANA 31 arb 4 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Marc Rzepczynski↔ SEA 32 FA-elig 5 0.0 1.2 -1.1
Francisco Mejía↔ SDP 22 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Matt Belisle↔ MIN 38 FA-elig 8 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
George Kontos↔ NYY 33 FA-elig 6 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Ben Taylor 25 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Zach McAllister↔ DET 30 FA-elig 41 -0.1 2.3 -2.5
Alexi Ogando 34 FA-elig 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Jon Edwards 30 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Cody Allen 29 FA-elig 70 -0.1 10.6 -10.9
Erik González 26 pre-arb 81 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Neil Ramírez 29 arb 47 -0.2 0.4 -1.2
Eric Haase 25 – 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Dan Otero 33 FA-elig 61 -0.3 1.1 -2.2
Jeff Beliveau 31 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.0 -1.2
Adam Plutko 26 pre-arb 17 -0.3 0.2 -1.4
Nick Goody 26 arb 12 -0.4 0.6 -1.8
Adam Cimber↔ SDP 27 pre-arb 28 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Rajai Davis 37 FA-elig 101 -0.5 1.8 -3.6
Tyler Naquin 27 pre-arb 61 -0.6 0.6 -2.8
Josh Tomlin 33 FA-elig 32 -1.4 3.0 -7.7

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.