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

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+14.1
WAB — wins above budget
+3.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–74 (0.543)
record · made playoffs
+31M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.7
roster fWAR
$80.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Ramírez 32 FA-elig 158 6.3 19.3 +4.8
Steven Kwan 27 arb 156 3.2 4.2 +8.0
Cade Smith 26 pre-arb 76 2.7 0.8 +9.6
Tanner Bibee 26 pre-arb 31 1.9 3.4 +3.8
Logan Allen 26 pre-arb 30 1.7 0.8 +5.8
Joey Cantillo 25 pre-arb 34 1.5 0.5 +5.2
Bo Naylor 25 pre-arb 123 1.5 0.8 +4.8
Gavin Williams 25 pre-arb 31 1.4 0.8 +4.7
Daniel Schneemann 28 pre-arb 131 1.3 0.8 +4.3
Austin Hedges 32 FA-elig 70 1.2 4.0 +0.6
Kyle Manzardo 24 pre-arb 142 1.2 0.8 +3.8
Emmanuel Clase 27 arb 48 1.1 4.9 -0.7
Gabriel Arias 25 pre-arb 129 1.1 0.8 +3.4
Parker Messick 24 – 7 1.0 0.2 +3.6
Luis Ortiz 26 pre-arb 16 0.9 0.8 +2.8
Hunter Gaddis 27 pre-arb 73 0.8 0.8 +2.5
Matt Festa 32 pre-arb 63 0.8 0.6 +2.5
Slade Cecconi 26 pre-arb 23 0.7 0.8 +2.0
Kolby Allard 27 arb 33 0.7 0.8 +1.9
Jakob Junis 32 – 57 0.6 – –
Carlos Santana↔ CHC 39 – 116 0.5 11.1 -9.1
Brayan Rocchio 24 pre-arb 115 0.4 0.6 +1.0
Ben Lively 33 pre-arb 9 0.4 2.2 -0.8
Erik Sabrowski 27 pre-arb 33 0.3 0.8 +0.5
Nic Enright 28 – 27 0.2 0.7 +0.2
CJ Kayfus 23 – 44 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Paul Sewald↔ DET 35 – 18 0.1 3.4 -2.9
Zak Kent 27 – 12 0.1 0.5 -0.0
Petey Halpin 23 – 6 0.1 0.0 +0.2
George Valera 24 – 16 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Carlos Hernández↔ DET 28 arb 5 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Cody Bolton 27 – 1 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Doug Nikhazy 25 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Dom Nuñez 30 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Andrew Walters 24 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Will Brennan 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Triston McKenzie 27 arb 4 -0.1 1.9 -2.4
Angel Martínez 23 pre-arb 139 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Johnathan Rodríguez 25 pre-arb 31 -0.4 0.3 -2.0
Tim Herrin 28 pre-arb 54 -0.4 0.6 -2.3
Nolan Jones 27 pre-arb 136 -0.4 0.8 -2.5
Will Wilson 26 – 34 -0.5 0.3 -2.2
Lane Thomas 29 arb 39 -0.5 7.8 -9.8
David Fry 29 pre-arb 66 -0.6 0.8 -3.0
Jhonkensy Noel 23 pre-arb 69 -1.1 0.4 -4.5

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 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.