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

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.6
WAB — wins above budget
+0.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–86 (0.469)
record
+22M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.9
roster fWAR
$92.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Ramírez 30 FA-elig 156 4.6 14.0 +4.3
Andrés Giménez 24 arb 153 3.8 1.6 +13.5
Tanner Bibee 24 – 25 3.0 0.6 +11.4
Steven Kwan 25 pre-arb 158 3.0 0.7 +11.2
Josh Naylor 26 arb 121 2.7 3.4 +7.2
Shane Bieber 28 arb 21 2.1 10.0 -1.7
Bo Naylor 23 pre-arb 67 2.1 0.4 +7.8
Emmanuel Clase 25 arb 75 1.7 1.9 +5.0
Logan Allen 24 – 24 1.7 0.6 +6.1
Aaron Civale↔ TBR 28 arb 13 1.6 1.5 +4.8
Gavin Williams 23 – 16 1.1 0.4 +4.1
Sam Hentges 26 pre-arb 56 1.1 0.7 +3.6
Trevor Stephan 27 pre-arb 71 0.9 1.4 +2.4
Ramón Laureano↔ OAK 28 arb 41 0.8 1.4 +1.7
Cal Quantrill 28 arb 19 0.7 5.5 -2.6
Enyel De Los Santos 27 arb 70 0.7 0.8 +2.1
Gabriel Arias 23 pre-arb 122 0.5 0.7 +1.3
Xzavion Curry 24 pre-arb 41 0.4 0.7 +1.0
Eli Morgan 27 pre-arb 61 0.4 0.7 +1.0
Reynaldo López↔ ANA 29 FA-elig 12 0.4 0.6 +0.8
Zach Plesac 28 arb 5 0.2 3.0 -2.0
Michael Kelly 30 pre-arb 14 0.2 0.4 +0.5
Triston McKenzie 25 pre-arb 4 0.2 0.7 +0.1
Tyler Freeman 24 pre-arb 64 0.2 0.6 +0.2
Myles Straw 28 arb 147 0.2 2.9 -2.2
Hunter Gaddis 25 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.7 -0.2
Tim Herrin 26 – 23 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Zack Collins 28 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Peyton Battenfield 25 – 7 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Amed Rosario↔ LAD 27 FA-elig 94 0.0 5.2 -5.0
Matt Moore↔ ANA 34 FA-elig 5 0.0 0.8 -0.6
Konnor Pilkington 25 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Touki Toussaint↔ CHW 27 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Eric Haase↔ DET 30 arb 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Will Brennan 25 pre-arb 138 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Meibrys Viloria 26 arb 10 -0.1 0.8 -1.2
José Tena 22 – 18 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
James Karinchak 27 arb 44 -0.2 1.5 -2.3
Kole Calhoun 35 FA-elig 43 -0.2 0.2 -1.0
Cody Morris 26 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.4 -1.3
Nick Sandlin 26 pre-arb 61 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
David Fry 27 – 58 -0.3 0.6 -1.8
Josh Bell↔ MIA 30 FA-elig 97 -0.3 10.7 -11.8
Mike Zunino 32 FA-elig 42 -0.3 6.0 -7.2
Daniel Norris 30 FA-elig 7 -0.3 0.1 -1.5
Brayan Rocchio 22 – 23 -0.4 0.1 -1.6
Lucas Giolito↔ ANA 28 FA-elig 6 -0.4 1.9 -3.5
Noah Syndergaard↔ LAD 30 FA-elig 6 -0.5 4.3 -6.5
Cam Gallagher 30 FA-elig 56 -0.7 1.2 -4.0
Oscar Gonzalez 25 pre-arb 54 -1.4 0.7 -6.4

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.