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GM: Jeff Bridich (since 2015)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.1
WAB — wins above budget
-18.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
71–91 (0.438)
record
-91M
surplus $M (value/$)
18.3
roster fWAR
$152.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nolan Arenado 28 FA-elig 155 6.1 26.0 -5.9
Trevor Story 26 arb 145 6.0 5.0 +14.8
Germán Márquez 24 arb 29 3.7 0.6 +11.5
Jon Gray 27 arb 27 2.5 2.9 +5.1
Charlie Blackmon 32 FA-elig 140 2.1 21.5 -14.5
David Dahl 25 arb 100 1.7 0.6 +5.0
Scott Oberg 29 arb 49 1.0 1.3 +2.1
Jairo Díaz 28 pre-arb 56 0.9 0.4 +2.5
Ryan McMahon 24 pre-arb 141 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Sam Hilliard 25 – 27 0.7 0.1 +2.3
Carlos Estévez 26 pre-arb 71 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Peter Lambert 22 – 22 0.5 0.3 +1.2
Harrison Musgrave 27 pre-arb 10 0.3 0.6 +0.3
DJ Johnson 29 pre-arb 28 0.2 0.6 -0.1
Antonio Senzatela 24 pre-arb 25 0.1 0.6 -0.1
James Pazos 28 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Chad Bettis 30 FA-elig 39 0.1 3.4 -3.0
Phillip Diehl 24 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Kyle Freeland 26 pre-arb 22 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Chi Chi González 27 – 14 0.0 – –
Yonder Alonso↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 54 -0.0 3.5 -3.5
Dom Nuñez 24 – 16 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Noel Cuevas 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Mike Dunn 34 FA-elig 28 -0.1 7.0 -7.2
Chris Rusin 32 FA-elig 2 -0.1 1.7 -2.1
Ian Desmond 33 FA-elig 140 -0.1 15.0 -15.5
Yency Almonte 25 pre-arb 28 -0.2 0.3 -0.8
Joshua Fuentes 26 – 24 -0.2 – –
Bryan Shaw 31 FA-elig 70 -0.2 8.5 -9.1
Tim Melville 29 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Wade Davis 33 FA-elig 50 -0.2 18.0 -18.7
Pat Valaika 26 pre-arb 40 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Joe Harvey↔ NYY 27 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Garrett Hampson 24 pre-arb 105 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Raimel Tapia 25 arb 138 -0.2 0.6 -1.3
Sam Howard 26 pre-arb 20 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Tony Wolters 27 arb 121 -0.3 1.0 -1.8
Rico Garcia 25 – 2 -0.3 – –
Drew Butera 35 FA-elig 16 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Seunghwan Oh 36 arb 21 -0.3 2.5 -3.6
Tyler Anderson 29 arb 5 -0.3 2.6 -3.7
Chris Iannetta 36 FA-elig 52 -0.3 4.2 -5.3
Jake McGee 32 FA-elig 45 -0.3 8.5 -9.6
Wes Parsons↔ ATL 26 pre-arb 15 -0.4 0.3 -1.4
Jeff Hoffman 26 pre-arb 18 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Yonathan Daza 25 pre-arb 44 -0.6 0.1 -2.0
Daniel Murphy 34 FA-elig 132 -0.7 10.0 -12.2
Brendan Rodgers 22 – 25 -0.8 0.4 -2.9
Mark Reynolds 35 FA-elig 78 -0.9 1.0 -3.8
Jesus Tinoco 24 – 24 -1.1 0.3 -3.7

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (94%). 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.