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GM: Daniel O'Dowd (since 2000)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.6
WAB — wins above budget
-7.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
-30M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.0
roster fWAR
$92.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Troy Tulowitzki 26 arb 143 5.4 5.5 +7.7
Carlos González 25 arb 127 3.5 1.4 +7.1
Todd Helton 37 FA-elig 124 2.3 20.3 -14.6
Jhoulys Chacín 23 pre-arb 33 2.2 0.4 +4.9
Dexter Fowler 25 arb 125 2.1 0.4 +4.7
Ubaldo Jiménez↔ CLE 27 arb 21 2.0 1.8 +3.1
Rafael Betancourt 36 FA-elig 68 1.7 3.8 +0.4
Jorge De La Rosa 30 FA-elig 10 1.5 10.0 -6.3
Chris Iannetta 28 arb 112 1.3 2.5 +0.7
Matt Belisle 31 FA-elig 74 1.3 2.4 +0.9
Juan Nicasio 24 – 13 1.3 0.4 +2.7
Seth Smith 28 arb 147 1.2 0.4 +2.5
Mark Ellis↔ OAK 34 FA-elig 70 1.2 3.2 -0.3
Jason Giambi 40 FA-elig 64 1.2 1.0 +1.8
Jason Hammel 28 arb 33 1.0 3.0 -0.5
Kevin Millwood 36 – 9 0.8 – –
Matt Lindstrom 31 arb 63 0.8 2.8 -0.9
Rex Brothers 23 – 48 0.7 – –
Drew Pomeranz 22 – 4 0.7 0.0 +1.5
Aaron Cook 32 FA-elig 23 0.6 9.9 -8.3
Huston Street 27 FA-elig 62 0.4 7.3 -6.3
Wilin Rosario 22 – 16 0.3 – –
Eric Young Jr. 26 – 77 0.1 – –
Josh Roenicke 28 – 19 0.1 – –
J.C. Romero↔ PHI 35 FA-elig 12 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Edgmer Escalona 24 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Jim Miller 29 – 6 0.0 – –
Alan Johnson 27 – 1 0.0 – –
Matt Daley 29 – 7 0.0 – –
Bruce Billings↔ OAK 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Edgar Gonzalez 28 – 1 0.0 – –
Cole Garner 26 – 4 -0.0 – –
Kevin Kouzmanoff↔ OAK 29 arb 27 -0.0 1.8 -1.8
Tommy Field 24 – 16 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Jose Morales 28 arb 22 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Eliezer Alfonzo 32 – 25 -0.0 – –
Franklin Morales↔ BOS 25 arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Héctor Gómez 23 – 2 -0.1 – –
Felipe Paulino↔ KCR 27 arb 18 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Alfredo Amezaga↔ MIA 33 – 20 -0.1 – –
Matt Pagnozzi↔ PIT 28 – 7 -0.1 – –
Eric Stults 31 – 6 -0.2 – –
Esmil Rogers 25 pre-arb 22 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Ty Wigginton 33 FA-elig 130 -0.2 3.5 -4.1
Greg Reynolds 25 – 13 -0.3 – –
Matt Reynolds 26 pre-arb 73 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Jonathan Herrera 26 arb 104 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Clayton Mortensen 26 – 16 -0.3 – –
Jordan Pacheco 25 – 21 -0.4 – –
Jose Lopez↔ MIA 27 FA-elig 38 -0.5 1.7 -2.8
Ian Stewart 26 arb 48 -0.7 2.3 -4.1
Charlie Blackmon 24 FA-elig 27 -0.7 0.4 -2.2
Chris Nelson 25 pre-arb 63 -0.9 0.4 -2.5
Alex White↔ CLE 22 pre-arb 7 -0.9 0.3 -2.5
Ryan Spilborghs 31 FA-elig 98 -1.5 1.9 -5.5

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 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.