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President of baseball ops: Chris Antonetti (since 2016) · GM: Mike Chernoff (since 2022)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+20.4
WAB — wins above budget
+16.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–70 (0.568)
record · made playoffs
+82M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.7
roster fWAR
$64.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Andrés Giménez 23 pre-arb 146 6.1 0.7 +21.6
José Ramírez 29 FA-elig 157 6.0 22.0 -0.3
Shane Bieber 27 arb 31 4.8 6.0 +11.4
Steven Kwan 24 – 147 4.7 0.7 +16.3
Triston McKenzie 24 pre-arb 31 3.4 0.7 +11.8
Amed Rosario 26 arb 153 3.1 5.0 +6.2
Emmanuel Clase 24 arb 77 2.3 1.9 +6.6
Cal Quantrill 27 arb 32 2.1 2.5 +5.0
Josh Naylor 25 arb 122 1.9 1.2 +5.6
Trevor Stephan 26 pre-arb 66 1.7 0.7 +5.5
Myles Straw 27 arb 152 1.5 1.6 +3.7
Oscar Gonzalez 24 – 91 1.4 0.5 +4.7
Aaron Civale 27 pre-arb 20 1.3 0.7 +3.9
Sam Hentges 25 pre-arb 57 1.0 0.7 +3.1
Enyel De Los Santos 26 – 50 1.0 – –
James Karinchak 26 pre-arb 38 1.0 0.7 +2.8
Zach Plesac 27 pre-arb 25 0.8 2.0 +0.9
Luke Maile 31 FA-elig 76 0.7 0.9 +1.6
Owen Miller 25 pre-arb 130 0.7 0.7 +1.7
Eli Morgan 26 pre-arb 50 0.6 0.7 +1.4
Will Brennan 24 – 11 0.4 0.1 +1.5
Nick Sandlin 25 pre-arb 46 0.3 0.6 +0.4
Konnor Pilkington 24 – 15 0.2 0.2 +0.7
Nolan Jones 24 – 28 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Logan Allen↔ BAL 25 – 4 0.1 0.1 +0.5
Cody Morris 25 – 7 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Alex Call↔ WSN 27 – 12 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Sandy León↔ MIN 33 – 9 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Alex Young↔ SFG 28 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Tyler Freeman 23 – 24 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Ian Gibaut↔ CIN 28 – 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Yohan Ramírez↔ PIT 27 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Austin Hedges 29 FA-elig 105 -0.0 4.0 -4.1
Xzavion Curry 23 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Bryan Lavastida 23 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Tanner Tully 27 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Yu Chang↔ BOS 26 – 4 -0.1 – –
Anthony Gose 31 pre-arb 22 -0.2 0.7 -1.3
Gabriel Arias 22 – 16 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Bo Naylor 22 – 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Óscar Mercado↔ PHI 27 – 54 -0.3 0.3 -1.5
Richie Palacios 25 – 54 -0.4 – –
Bobby Bradley 26 pre-arb 8 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Will Benson 24 – 28 -0.4 0.2 -1.8
Bryan Shaw 34 FA-elig 60 -0.5 3.0 -4.8
Anthony Castro 27 – 12 -0.5 0.2 -2.0
Ernie Clement↔ OAK 26 – 64 -0.6 0.5 -2.8
Hunter Gaddis 24 – 2 -0.6 0.0 -2.3
Kirk McCarty 26 – 13 -0.8 0.2 -3.2
Franmil Reyes↔ CHC 26 arb 70 -0.9 2.7 -5.9

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (94%). 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.