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GM: Jeff Bridich (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-11.4
WAB — wins above budget
-13.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
-44M
surplus $M (value/$)
18.0
roster fWAR
$100.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nolan Arenado 24 pre-arb 157 4.5 0.5 +13.6
Carlos González 29 FA-elig 153 2.8 16.0 -7.1
Charlie Blackmon 28 arb 157 2.5 0.5 +7.3
DJ LeMahieu 26 arb 150 1.9 0.5 +5.5
Chad Bettis 26 pre-arb 20 1.9 0.4 +5.6
Jorge De La Rosa 34 FA-elig 26 1.3 12.5 -8.5
Nick Hundley 31 FA-elig 103 1.2 3.1 +0.8
Troy Tulowitzki↔ TOR 30 FA-elig 87 1.2 13.6 -9.8
Chris Rusin 28 pre-arb 27 1.2 0.4 +3.4
Ben Paulsen 27 pre-arb 116 0.9 0.4 +2.4
Jon Gray 23 – 9 0.8 0.2 +2.3
John Axford 32 FA-elig 60 0.8 2.6 -0.2
Justin Miller 28 – 34 0.7 0.2 +2.1
Jordan Lyles 24 arb 11 0.7 2.5 -0.4
Corey Dickerson 26 pre-arb 65 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Rafael Betancourt 40 FA-elig 45 0.6 1.0 +0.8
Justin Morneau 34 FA-elig 49 0.5 6.8 -5.2
Adam Ottavino 29 arb 10 0.4 1.3 +0.1
Christian Bergman 27 pre-arb 30 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Boone Logan 30 FA-elig 60 0.3 5.5 -4.5
Jairo Díaz 24 pre-arb 21 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Christian Friedrich 27 arb 68 0.2 0.5 +0.1
David Hale 27 pre-arb 17 0.2 0.2 +0.3
LaTroy Hawkins↔ TOR 42 FA-elig 24 0.2 1.3 -0.8
Ken Roberts↔ PHI 27 – 9 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Simon Castro 27 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Drew Stubbs↔ TEX 30 FA-elig 51 0.1 3.8 -3.5
Michael McKenry 30 arb 58 0.1 1.1 -0.8
Brooks Brown 30 pre-arb 36 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Tyler Matzek 24 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jason Gurka 27 – 10 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Tom Murphy 24 – 11 0.0 – –
Rex Brothers 27 arb 17 0.0 1.4 -1.4
Tommy Kahnle 25 pre-arb 36 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Jorge Rondon↔ BAL 27 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Aaron Laffey 30 arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Miguel Castro↔ TOR 20 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Cristhian Adames 23 pre-arb 26 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Gonzalez Germen↔ CHC 27 pre-arb 29 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
José Reyes↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 47 -0.3 8.9 -9.8
Yohan Flande 29 pre-arb 19 -0.4 0.3 -1.7
Matt McBride 30 – 20 -0.5 0.1 -1.6
Rafael Ynoa 27 pre-arb 72 -0.6 0.3 -2.1
Kyle Kendrick 30 FA-elig 27 -0.6 5.5 -7.3
Brandon Barnes 29 pre-arb 106 -0.6 0.4 -2.3
Eddie Butler 24 pre-arb 16 -0.6 0.5 -2.4
Scott Oberg 25 – 64 -0.8 0.4 -3.0
Kyle Parker 25 pre-arb 46 -0.8 0.0 -2.6
Wilin Rosario 26 arb 87 -0.9 2.8 -5.5
Daniel Descalso 28 arb 101 -0.9 1.5 -4.5
Dustin Garneau 27 – 22 -1.0 0.1 -3.2

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 of them (98%). 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.