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GM: Daniel O'Dowd (since 2000)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.9
WAB — wins above budget
-3.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–80 (0.506)
record
-12M
surplus $M (value/$)
31.9
roster fWAR
$58.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Todd Helton 26 arb 160 8.3 1.3 +10.4
Gabe White↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 67 3.1 0.6 +3.8
Jeff Cirillo 30 FA-elig 157 3.0 3.6 +0.7
Pedro Astacio 31 FA-elig 32 2.8 6.3 -2.4
Brian Bohanon 31 FA-elig 35 2.4 3.0 +0.4
Larry Walker 33 FA-elig 87 1.9 12.1 -9.5
Jeffrey Hammonds 29 FA-elig 122 1.7 3.2 -0.8
Masato Yoshii 35 pre-arb 29 1.7 3.0 -0.6
Jose Jimenez 26 pre-arb 72 1.4 0.2 +1.8
Rolando Arrojo↔ BOS 34 pre-arb 19 1.3 0.2 +1.6
Julian Tavarez 27 FA-elig 51 1.1 1.2 +0.4
Tom Goodwin↔ LAD 31 FA-elig 91 1.0 2.1 -0.7
Mike Myers 31 arb 78 0.9 0.9 +0.4
Todd Hollandsworth↔ LAD 27 arb 56 0.8 0.6 +0.6
Butch Huskey↔ MIN 28 FA-elig 45 0.8 0.2 +1.0
Todd Walker↔ MIN 27 arb 57 0.8 0.2 +0.8
Jeff Frye↔ BOS 33 FA-elig 37 0.7 0.9 +0.1
John Wasdin↔ BOS 27 arb 14 0.6 0.2 +0.7
Brent Mayne 32 FA-elig 117 0.5 1.8 -1.1
Bobby Chouinard 28 – 31 0.4 – –
Jeff Manto 35 FA-elig 7 0.4 0.5 +0.1
Brian Rose↔ BOS 24 arb 12 0.4 0.1 +0.4
Neifi Perez 27 arb 162 0.3 2.2 -1.7
Kevin Jarvis 30 – 25 0.3 – –
Ben Petrick 23 – 52 0.3 – –
Rick Croushore↔ BOS 29 – 6 0.2 – –
Jerry Dipoto 32 FA-elig 17 0.2 2.4 -2.1
Terry Shumpert 33 FA-elig 115 0.1 0.7 -0.6
Elvis Pena 25 – 10 0.1 – –
Pete Walker 31 – 3 -0.1 – –
David Moraga↔ WSN 24 – 1 -0.1 – –
Bubba Carpenter 31 – 15 -0.1 – –
Scott Karl↔ ANA 28 arb 17 -0.1 2.7 -2.9
Manny Aybar↔ CIN 28 arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Mike DeJean 29 arb 54 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Brian L. Hunter↔ CIN 29 FA-elig 72 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Angel Echevarria↔ MIL 29 – 10 -0.2 – –
Adam Melhuse↔ LAD 28 – 23 -0.2 – –
Aaron Ledesma 29 arb 32 -0.2 0.5 -0.8
Rigo Beltran 30 – 1 -0.2 – –
Stan Belinda↔ ATL 33 FA-elig 47 -0.2 1.2 -1.6
David Lee 27 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Giovanni Carrara 32 – 8 -0.3 – –
Juan Pierre 22 – 51 -0.3 – –
Carlos Mendoza 25 – 13 -0.3 – –
Craig House 22 – 16 -0.4 – –
Mike Lansing↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 90 -0.6 4.0 -4.9
Scott Servais↔ SFG 33 FA-elig 33 -0.8 0.5 -1.6
Darren Bragg 30 FA-elig 71 -0.9 0.8 -2.0

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 of them (69%). 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 COL
Carlos González200824.7
Germán Márquez201619.1
Jorge De La Rosa200813.1
DJ LeMahieu201113.1
Pedro Astacio19978.3
Brian Fuentes20017.7
Rafael Betancourt20095.9
Tyler Chatwood20115.8
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Chone Figgins200122.2
Nolan Arenado202118.3
Andy Ashby199317.7
Mark Canha201410.3
Darryl Kile19999.7
Juan Pierre20029.4
Everth Cabrera20084.5
Ubaldo Jiménez20114.4
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.