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GM: Daniel O'Dowd (since 2000)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.3
WAB — wins above budget
-8.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
66–96 (0.407)
record
-29M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.6
roster fWAR
$99.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Troy Tulowitzki 29 FA-elig 91 5.1 16.0 -1.1
Corey Dickerson 25 pre-arb 131 2.8 0.5 +7.6
Drew Stubbs 29 arb 132 2.7 4.1 +3.7
Nolan Arenado 23 pre-arb 111 2.6 0.5 +7.1
Justin Morneau 33 FA-elig 135 2.3 5.0 +1.8
Tyler Matzek 23 – 21 2.0 0.3 +5.5
Jordan Lyles 23 arb 23 1.7 0.5 +4.5
Jorge De La Rosa 33 FA-elig 32 1.6 11.0 -6.4
Michael Cuddyer 35 FA-elig 49 1.6 10.5 -5.9
Charlie Blackmon 27 arb 154 1.3 0.5 +3.4
Adam Ottavino 28 arb 75 1.2 0.5 +2.9
Brett Anderson 26 arb 8 1.1 8.0 -4.9
Michael McKenry 29 arb 57 0.8 0.8 +1.7
LaTroy Hawkins 41 FA-elig 57 0.7 2.2 -0.3
Yohan Flande 28 pre-arb 16 0.6 0.2 +1.4
Jhoulys Chacín 26 arb 12 0.5 4.8 -3.3
Rafael Ynoa 26 – 19 0.5 – –
Wilin Rosario 25 arb 106 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Ben Paulsen 26 – 31 0.4 0.1 +1.0
Matt Belisle 34 FA-elig 66 0.4 4.2 -3.2
DJ LeMahieu 25 arb 149 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Christian Friedrich 26 pre-arb 16 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Matt McBride 29 – 21 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Brooks Brown 29 – 28 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Brandon Barnes 28 pre-arb 132 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Christian Bergman 26 – 10 0.1 0.3 -0.0
Tommy Kahnle 24 – 54 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Chris Martin 28 – 16 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Pedro Hernandez 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Nick Masset 32 FA-elig 51 0.0 1.2 -1.2
Tyler Chatwood 24 arb 4 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Jackson Williams 28 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jason Pridie 30 – 2 -0.0 – –
Eddie Butler 23 – 3 -0.2 – –
Cristhian Adames 22 – 7 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Wilton Lopez 30 arb 4 -0.2 2.2 -2.8
Ryan Wheeler 25 pre-arb 31 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Kyle Parker 24 – 18 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Jair Jurrjens 28 arb 2 -0.3 0.0 -1.0
Carlos González 28 FA-elig 70 -0.3 10.5 -11.5
Boone Logan 29 FA-elig 35 -0.4 4.8 -5.8
Rob Scahill 27 pre-arb 12 -0.4 0.1 -1.2
Josh Rutledge 25 pre-arb 105 -0.4 0.5 -1.6
Chad Bettis 25 pre-arb 21 -0.4 0.5 -1.6
Franklin Morales 28 FA-elig 38 -0.5 1.7 -3.2
Rex Brothers 26 arb 74 -0.6 0.5 -2.2
Juan Nicasio 27 arb 33 -0.6 2.0 -3.7
Jordan Pacheco↔ ARI 28 arb 22 -0.9 0.2 -2.7
Charlie Culberson 25 pre-arb 95 -1.0 0.5 -3.6

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (92%). 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.