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GM: Daniel O'Dowd (since 2000)

2001 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-10.0
WAB — wins above budget
+1.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
-9M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.9
roster fWAR
$67.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Larry Walker 34 FA-elig 142 7.6 12.2 +0.1
Todd Helton 27 arb 159 7.1 5.0 +6.5
Jeff Cirillo 31 FA-elig 138 3.9 4.8 +1.4
Mike Hampton 28 FA-elig 43 3.1 10.5 -5.5
Denny Neagle 32 FA-elig 30 2.6 7.2 -3.0
Juan Pierre 23 pre-arb 156 2.2 0.2 +3.3
Pedro Astacio↔ HOU 31 FA-elig 22 1.8 5.8 -2.8
John Thomson 27 arb 14 1.6 0.3 +2.3
Juan Uribe 22 – 72 1.6 – –
Neifi Perez↔ KCR 28 arb 87 1.5 2.3 +0.1
Todd Hollandsworth 28 FA-elig 33 1.3 2.8 -0.7
Todd Walker↔ CIN 28 arb 85 1.2 0.6 +1.4
Jason Jennings 22 – 7 1.1 – –
Jose Ortiz↔ OAK 24 pre-arb 53 0.8 0.2 +1.2
Brent Mayne↔ KCR 33 FA-elig 49 0.8 1.1 +0.3
Shawn Chacon 23 – 27 0.7 – –
Mike Myers 32 FA-elig 73 0.6 1.2 -0.2
Mark Little 28 arb 51 0.6 0.2 +0.8
Jose Jimenez 27 arb 56 0.5 0.3 +0.5
Justin Speier↔ CLE 27 arb 42 0.4 0.2 +0.5
Terry Shumpert 34 FA-elig 114 0.4 0.7 -0.1
Sal Fasano↔ KCR 29 arb 25 0.4 0.2 +0.4
Dan Miceli↔ MIA 30 FA-elig 22 0.3 0.9 -0.3
Ron Villone↔ HOU 31 FA-elig 22 0.3 1.2 -0.6
Jay Powell↔ HOU 29 FA-elig 39 0.3 0.8 -0.4
Ron Gant↔ OAK 36 FA-elig 59 0.3 1.1 -0.7
Brian Bohanon 32 FA-elig 21 0.2 4.0 -3.7
Joe Davenport 25 – 7 0.1 – –
Juan Acevedo↔ MIA 31 – 37 0.1 – –
Ben Petrick 24 pre-arb 85 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Chris Nichting↔ CIN 35 – 7 -0.0 – –
Horacio Estrada 25 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Tim Christman 26 – 1 -0.0 – –
Kevin Sefcik 30 – 1 -0.0 – –
Brooks Kieschnick 29 – 35 -0.0 – –
Greg Norton 28 arb 117 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Todd Belitz 25 – 8 -0.1 – –
Cliff Brumbaugh↔ TEX 27 – 14 -0.1 – –
Kane Davis 26 – 57 -0.1 – –
Bobby Chouinard 29 arb 8 -0.2 0.3 -0.6
Robin Jennings↔ CIN 29 arb 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.3
John Wasdin↔ BAL 28 FA-elig 18 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Mario Encarnacion 25 – 20 -0.2 – –
Gary Bennett↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 19 -0.3 0.1 -0.6
Alex Ochoa↔ CIN 29 FA-elig 58 -0.3 0.6 -1.2
Scott Elarton↔ HOU 25 arb 4 -0.4 0.1 -0.7
Mac Suzuki↔ KCR 26 arb 3 -0.4 0.0 -0.7
Kimera Bartee 28 – 12 -0.4 – –
Craig Dingman 27 – 7 -0.5 – –
Brent Butler 23 – 53 -0.5 – –
Gabe White 29 FA-elig 69 -0.8 1.2 -2.5
Jacob Cruz↔ CLE 28 arb 44 -0.8 0.1 -1.5
Adam Melhuse 29 – 40 -0.8 – –

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (68%). 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.