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GM: Daniel O'Dowd (since 2000)

2005 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-7.4
WAB — wins above budget
-6.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
67–95 (0.414)
record
-8M
surplus $M (value/$)
20.6
roster fWAR
$40.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Todd Helton 31 FA-elig 144 4.1 12.6 -5.0
Matt Holliday 25 pre-arb 125 2.6 0.4 +4.5
Garrett Atkins 25 pre-arb 138 1.9 0.3 +3.2
Jeff Francis 24 pre-arb 33 1.9 0.3 +3.2
Clint Barmes 26 pre-arb 81 1.7 0.3 +2.9
Brian Fuentes 29 arb 78 1.5 0.3 +2.4
Jason Jennings 26 arb 22 1.3 2.4 +0.1
Mike DeJean↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 38 1.2 0.7 +1.5
Danny Ardoin 30 – 80 1.0 – –
Aaron Cook 26 arb 13 1.0 0.3 +1.6
Byung-Hyun Kim 26 FA-elig 40 1.0 6.6 -4.7
Dustan Mohr 29 arb 98 1.0 0.9 +0.9
Jay Witasick↔ OAK 32 – 32 0.8 – –
Sun-Woo Kim↔ WSN 27 – 12 0.8 – –
Jorge Piedra 26 – 61 0.7 – –
Cory Sullivan 25 pre-arb 139 0.6 0.3 +0.8
Ryan Shealy 25 – 36 0.5 – –
Shawn Chacon↔ NYY 27 arb 13 0.5 1.1 -0.2
Michael Restovich↔ PIT 26 – 14 0.5 – –
Jamey Wright 30 FA-elig 35 0.4 0.6 +0.2
Joe Kennedy↔ OAK 26 arb 16 0.3 1.0 -0.5
Choo Freeman 25 – 18 0.2 – –
Ryan Speier 25 pre-arb 22 0.2 0.3 -0.0
Eddy Garabito 28 – 42 0.1 – –
Aquilino Lopez↔ PHI 30 – 1 0.1 – –
Dan Miceli 34 – 19 0.1 – –
David Cortes 31 – 50 0.1 – –
Javier López↔ ARI 27 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Alfredo Amezaga↔ PIT 27 arb 3 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Ryan Spilborghs 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Todd Greene 34 FA-elig 38 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Eric Byrnes↔ BAL 29 arb 15 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Marcos Carvajal 20 pre-arb 39 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Randy Williams↔ SDP 29 – 30 -0.0 – –
Tim Olson 26 – 3 -0.0 – –
Zach Day↔ WSN 27 arb 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Luis Gonzalez 26 pre-arb 128 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Allan Simpson↔ CIN 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
JD Closser 25 pre-arb 92 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Scott Dohmann 27 pre-arb 32 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Blaine Neal↔ BOS 27 arb 11 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Mike Esposito 23 – 3 -0.2 – –
Jose Acevedo 27 – 36 -0.2 – –
Bobby Seay 27 – 17 -0.2 – –
Preston Wilson↔ WSN 30 FA-elig 71 -0.2 6.4 -6.8
Jeff Baker 24 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.3 -0.8
Larry Bigbie↔ BAL 27 arb 23 -0.3 0.1 -0.6
Anderson Machado↔ CIN 24 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.2 -0.8
Chin-hui Tsao 24 pre-arb 10 -0.3 0.3 -0.9
Omar Quintanilla 23 – 39 -0.4 – –
Matt Anderson 28 – 12 -0.4 – –
Brad Hawpe 26 pre-arb 101 -0.6 0.3 -1.5
Desi Relaford 31 FA-elig 73 -0.7 0.9 -2.2
Aaron Miles 28 pre-arb 99 -0.8 0.3 -1.9

54 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (65%). 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.