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GM: Daniel O'Dowd (since 2000)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+11.9
WAB — wins above budget
+7.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–70 (0.568)
record · made playoffs
+16M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.5
roster fWAR
$78.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ubaldo Jiménez 25 arb 33 5.7 0.8 +12.8
Troy Tulowitzki 24 arb 151 5.3 1.0 +11.6
Jason Marquis 30 FA-elig 38 3.3 9.9 -2.1
Jason Hammel 26 arb 34 3.2 0.4 +7.2
Jorge De La Rosa 28 arb 33 3.0 2.0 +5.2
Seth Smith 26 pre-arb 133 2.8 0.4 +6.2
Todd Helton 35 FA-elig 151 2.6 16.6 -10.4
Carlos González 23 pre-arb 89 2.0 0.4 +4.3
Clint Barmes 30 FA-elig 154 1.6 1.6 +2.2
Aaron Cook 30 FA-elig 28 1.5 9.4 -5.7
Chris Iannetta 26 arb 93 1.5 0.4 +3.1
Huston Street 25 arb 64 1.4 4.5 -1.1
Ian Stewart 24 pre-arb 147 1.2 0.4 +2.4
Brad Hawpe 30 arb 145 1.2 5.5 -2.7
Rafael Betancourt↔ CLE 34 FA-elig 32 1.1 1.8 +0.8
Matt Daley 27 pre-arb 57 0.8 0.4 +1.4
Yorvit Torrealba 30 FA-elig 64 0.7 3.8 -2.1
Dexter Fowler 23 pre-arb 135 0.7 0.4 +1.2
Franklin Morales 23 pre-arb 40 0.5 0.4 +0.7
Manny Corpas 26 arb 35 0.4 0.8 +0.2
Paul Phillips 32 arb 17 0.4 0.4 +0.4
Jason Giambi↔ OAK 38 FA-elig 19 0.3 0.7 -0.1
Glendon Rusch 34 FA-elig 11 0.2 0.8 -0.4
Randy Flores 33 – 27 0.1 – –
Ryan Spilborghs 29 arb 133 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Jose Contreras↔ CHW 37 FA-elig 7 0.1 2.5 -2.2
Joe Beimel↔ WSN 32 FA-elig 26 0.1 0.7 -0.5
Esmil Rogers 23 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Jason Grilli↔ TEX 32 FA-elig 22 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Matt Murton 27 – 29 0.0 – –
Juan Rincon↔ DET 30 FA-elig 26 0.0 0.6 -0.6
Ryan Speier 29 arb 5 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Matt Herges↔ CLE 39 – 9 -0.0 – –
Jhoulys Chacín 21 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Joel Peralta 33 – 27 -0.0 – –
Adam Eaton↔ BAL 31 – 4 -0.0 – –
Edwin Bellorin 27 – 2 -0.1 – –
Mike McCoy 28 – 12 -0.1 – –
Matt Belisle 29 – 24 -0.1 – –
Josh Fogg 32 – 24 -0.1 – –
Alan Embree 39 FA-elig 36 -0.2 2.0 -2.4
Eric Young Jr. 24 pre-arb 30 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Omar Quintanilla 27 arb 58 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Jeff Baker↔ CHC 28 arb 12 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Garrett Atkins 29 FA-elig 126 -1.0 7.0 -9.4

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (80%). 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.