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GM: Jeff Bridich (since 2015)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.9
WAB — wins above budget
-3.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
91–72 (0.558)
record · made playoffs
-30M
surplus $M (value/$)
31.7
roster fWAR
$137.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nolan Arenado 27 arb 156 6.0 17.8 +2.5
Germán Márquez 23 pre-arb 33 4.8 0.6 +15.7
Trevor Story 25 pre-arb 157 4.7 0.6 +15.5
Kyle Freeland 25 pre-arb 33 3.8 0.6 +12.4
Charlie Blackmon 31 FA-elig 156 2.6 12.5 -3.8
Jon Gray 26 arb 31 2.2 0.6 +6.9
Adam Ottavino 32 FA-elig 75 1.9 7.0 -0.6
DJ LeMahieu 29 FA-elig 128 1.8 8.5 -2.3
Tyler Anderson 28 pre-arb 33 1.7 0.6 +5.2
Carlos González 32 FA-elig 132 1.5 5.0 +0.1
Scott Oberg 28 arb 56 1.3 0.6 +3.7
Antonio Senzatela 23 pre-arb 23 0.9 0.6 +2.6
Tony Wolters 26 pre-arb 74 0.9 0.6 +2.4
David Dahl 24 pre-arb 77 0.8 0.5 +2.4
Wade Davis 32 FA-elig 69 0.8 16.0 -13.3
Chris Iannetta 35 FA-elig 110 0.8 3.6 -0.9
Yency Almonte 24 – 14 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Seunghwan Oh↔ TOR 35 pre-arb 25 0.2 0.6 +0.1
Garrett Hampson 23 – 24 0.2 0.1 +0.5
DJ Johnson 28 – 7 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Matt Holliday 38 FA-elig 25 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Chad Bettis 29 arb 27 0.0 2.0 -1.9
Jeff Hoffman 25 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Jerry Vasto↔ KCR 26 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Raimel Tapia 24 pre-arb 25 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Brooks Pounders 27 pre-arb 14 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Chris Rusin 31 FA-elig 49 0.0 1.3 -1.3
Sam Howard 25 – 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Drew Butera↔ KCR 34 FA-elig 10 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Ryan McMahon 23 pre-arb 91 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Mike Dunn 33 FA-elig 25 -0.2 7.0 -7.6
Tom Murphy 27 pre-arb 37 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Jake McGee 31 FA-elig 61 -0.3 7.0 -7.9
Bryan Shaw 30 FA-elig 61 -0.3 7.5 -8.7
Daniel Castro 25 pre-arb 18 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Harrison Musgrave 26 pre-arb 35 -0.4 0.4 -1.8
Mike Tauchman 27 pre-arb 21 -0.4 0.5 -1.9
Gerardo Parra 31 FA-elig 142 -0.4 10.0 -11.4
Ian Desmond 32 FA-elig 160 -0.4 22.0 -23.4
Noel Cuevas 26 – 75 -1.1 0.4 -4.2
Pat Valaika 25 pre-arb 68 -1.3 0.6 -5.1

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.