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

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+17.9
WAB — wins above budget
+8.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–69 (0.571)
record · made playoffs
+57M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.6
roster fWAR
$91.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Ramírez 31 FA-elig 158 6.4 17.0 +9.7
Steven Kwan 26 pre-arb 122 4.2 0.8 +16.6
Tanner Bibee 25 pre-arb 31 3.3 0.7 +13.0
Andrés Giménez 25 arb 152 2.7 5.6 +5.8
Cade Smith 25 pre-arb 74 2.7 0.7 +10.5
Josh Naylor 27 arb 152 2.3 6.5 +2.9
Emmanuel Clase 26 arb 74 2.2 2.9 +6.4
David Fry 28 pre-arb 122 1.7 0.7 +6.5
Hunter Gaddis 26 pre-arb 78 1.6 0.7 +6.0
Bo Naylor 24 pre-arb 123 1.6 0.7 +5.9
Gavin Williams 24 pre-arb 16 1.3 0.7 +4.5
Brayan Rocchio 23 pre-arb 143 1.1 0.7 +3.7
Tim Herrin 27 pre-arb 75 1.0 0.7 +3.3
Matthew Boyd 33 FA-elig 8 0.9 0.4 +3.3
Ben Lively 32 FA-elig 29 0.8 0.8 +2.5
Shane Bieber 29 FA-elig 2 0.8 13.1 -9.9
Jhonkensy Noel 22 – 67 0.6 0.4 +2.2
Will Brennan 26 pre-arb 114 0.5 0.7 +1.2
Joey Cantillo 24 – 9 0.4 0.1 +1.7
Austin Hedges 31 FA-elig 66 0.4 4.0 -2.3
Erik Sabrowski 26 – 8 0.4 0.1 +1.5
Lane Thomas↔ WSN 28 arb 53 0.4 0.9 +0.7
Tyler Freeman 25 pre-arb 118 0.4 0.7 +0.8
Eli Morgan 28 arb 32 0.3 0.8 +0.6
Daniel Schneemann 27 pre-arb 73 0.3 0.7 +0.5
Alex Cobb 36 FA-elig 3 0.3 3.3 -2.2
Pedro Avila↔ SDP 27 arb 50 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Sam Hentges 27 arb 25 0.3 1.2 -0.1
Connor Gillispie 26 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Carlos Carrasco 37 FA-elig 21 0.1 2.0 -1.5
Andrew Walters 23 – 9 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Wes Parsons↔ TOR 31 FA-elig 2 0.1 0.4 +0.0
Estevan Florial 26 pre-arb 36 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Peter Strzelecki 29 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.7 -0.5
Scott Barlow 31 FA-elig 63 0.0 6.7 -6.5
Kyle Manzardo 23 pre-arb 53 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Myles Straw 29 FA-elig 7 0.0 4.9 -4.8
Angel Martínez 22 – 43 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Xzavion Curry↔ MIA 25 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
Anthony Gose 33 arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
José Tena↔ WSN 23 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Tyler Beede 31 FA-elig 13 -0.2 1.2 -1.9
Spencer Howard↔ SFG 27 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Ramón Laureano↔ ATL 29 FA-elig 31 -0.2 1.6 -2.5
Gabriel Arias 24 pre-arb 53 -0.2 0.7 -1.7
Johnathan Rodríguez 24 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.7 -1.7
Darren McCaughan↔ MIA 28 arb 2 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Nick Sandlin 27 arb 68 -0.7 1.1 -4.0
Logan Allen 25 pre-arb 20 -0.7 0.7 -3.7
Triston McKenzie 26 arb 16 -1.0 1.6 -5.7

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.