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GM: Daniel O'Dowd (since 2000)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.2
WAB — wins above budget
-0.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
+4M
surplus $M (value/$)
30.3
roster fWAR
$77.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Troy Tulowitzki 28 FA-elig 126 4.9 10.0 +3.2
Carlos González 27 arb 110 4.5 7.5 +4.7
Jhoulys Chacín 25 arb 32 4.3 1.6 +9.8
Michael Cuddyer 34 FA-elig 130 2.8 10.5 -3.0
Tyler Chatwood 23 pre-arb 26 2.3 0.4 +5.8
Jorge De La Rosa 32 FA-elig 30 2.1 11.0 -5.4
Juan Nicasio 26 pre-arb 31 2.0 0.5 +4.9
Dexter Fowler 27 arb 119 1.9 4.2 +0.9
Nolan Arenado 22 – 133 1.8 0.4 +4.4
Wilin Rosario 24 pre-arb 121 1.3 0.5 +3.1
Matt Belisle 33 FA-elig 72 1.3 4.1 -0.7
Charlie Blackmon 26 pre-arb 82 1.2 0.3 +3.1
Adam Ottavino 27 arb 51 1.1 0.5 +2.5
Rex Brothers 25 pre-arb 72 1.0 0.5 +2.2
Roy Oswalt 35 FA-elig 9 0.9 1.3 +1.2
Corey Dickerson 24 – 69 0.7 0.2 +1.5
Wilton Lopez 29 arb 75 0.6 1.8 -0.2
Josh Outman 28 arb 61 0.6 0.7 +0.9
Rafael Betancourt 38 FA-elig 32 0.5 4.2 -3.0
Jeff Francis 32 FA-elig 23 0.4 1.5 -0.4
DJ LeMahieu 24 pre-arb 109 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Jon Garland 33 FA-elig 12 0.3 0.5 +0.2
Jonathan Herrera 28 arb 81 0.2 0.9 -0.5
Collin McHugh↔ NYM 26 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Logan Kensing 30 arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Manny Corpas 30 – 31 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Chris Volstad 26 arb 6 -0.1 1.5 -1.6
Charlie Culberson 24 pre-arb 47 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Reid Brignac↔ NYY 27 arb 29 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Chad Bettis 24 – 17 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Josh Rutledge 24 pre-arb 88 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Mitchell Boggs↔ STL 29 arb 9 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Rob Scahill 26 pre-arb 23 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Jeff Manship 28 pre-arb 11 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Drew Pomeranz 24 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Edgmer Escalona 26 arb 37 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Chris Nelson↔ ANA 27 arb 21 -0.4 0.2 -1.1
Eric Young Jr.↔ NYM 28 arb 57 -0.4 0.2 -1.2
Yorvit Torrealba 34 FA-elig 61 -0.4 1.0 -2.1
Todd Helton 39 FA-elig 124 -0.5 5.0 -6.3
Ryan Wheeler 24 pre-arb 28 -0.6 0.1 -1.8
Tyler Colvin 27 arb 27 -0.9 2.3 -4.7
Jordan Pacheco 27 pre-arb 95 -1.7 0.5 -5.0

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.