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GM: Jeff Bridich (since 2015)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.9
WAB — wins above budget
+4.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
75–87 (0.463)
record
+20M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.5
roster fWAR
$91.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nolan Arenado 25 arb 160 6.0 5.0 +14.6
DJ LeMahieu 27 arb 146 5.0 3.0 +13.3
Charlie Blackmon 29 arb 143 4.5 3.5 +11.2
Jon Gray 24 pre-arb 29 3.5 0.5 +10.9
Trevor Story 23 pre-arb 97 3.5 0.5 +10.8
Tyler Anderson 26 pre-arb 20 2.4 0.3 +7.5
Carlos González 30 FA-elig 150 2.2 17.0 -10.0
Tyler Chatwood 26 arb 27 2.1 1.0 +5.7
Chad Bettis 27 arb 32 2.0 0.5 +6.0
Tony Wolters 24 pre-arb 71 1.8 0.5 +5.3
Chris Rusin 29 arb 29 1.5 0.5 +4.4
David Dahl 22 – 63 1.4 0.2 +4.4
Boone Logan 31 FA-elig 66 0.8 6.2 -3.6
Adam Ottavino 30 FA-elig 34 0.6 1.3 +0.7
Tom Murphy 25 pre-arb 21 0.6 0.1 +1.9
Daniel Descalso 29 FA-elig 99 0.5 2.1 -0.4
Mark Reynolds 32 FA-elig 118 0.5 2.6 -1.0
Jorge De La Rosa 35 FA-elig 27 0.4 12.5 -11.2
Carlos Estévez 23 – 63 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Germán Márquez 21 – 6 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Jason Gurka 28 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Jordan Lyles 25 arb 40 0.1 3.0 -2.8
Jordan Patterson 24 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Justin Miller 29 pre-arb 40 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Matt Carasiti 24 – 19 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Scott Oberg 26 pre-arb 24 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Chad Qualls 37 FA-elig 44 -0.0 2.2 -2.3
Yohan Flande 30 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Nick Hundley 32 FA-elig 83 -0.1 3.1 -3.4
David Hale 28 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Miguel Castro 21 pre-arb 19 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Raimel Tapia 22 – 22 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Pat Valaika 23 – 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Dustin Garneau 28 pre-arb 24 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Christian Bergman 28 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Eddie Butler 25 pre-arb 17 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Rafael Ynoa 28 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Gonzalez Germen 28 pre-arb 40 -0.2 0.3 -1.1
Cristhian Adames 24 pre-arb 121 -0.3 0.5 -1.3
Stephen Cardullo 28 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Brandon Barnes 30 arb 48 -0.3 1.0 -1.9
Jason Motte 34 FA-elig 30 -0.3 5.0 -5.9
Jake McGee 29 FA-elig 57 -0.3 4.8 -5.8
Ryan Raburn 35 FA-elig 113 -0.3 1.5 -2.6
Jeff Hoffman 23 – 8 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Ben Paulsen 28 pre-arb 39 -0.9 0.5 -3.4
Gerardo Parra 29 FA-elig 102 -1.0 8.0 -11.3

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.