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GM: Jeff Bridich (since 2015)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-11.6 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-21.8 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
26–34 (0.433)
record
-87M
surplus $M (value/$)
4.6
roster fWAR
$116.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Germán Márquez 25 arb 13 2.3 4.8 +12.2
Trevor Story 27 arb 59 2.0 9.0 +5.5
Antonio Senzatela 25 pre-arb 12 1.1 0.2 +7.8
Kyle Freeland 27 arb 13 1.0 2.9 +4.4
Raimel Tapia 26 pre-arb 51 0.6 0.2 +3.9
Nolan Arenado 29 FA-elig 48 0.6 35.0 -30.9
Yency Almonte 26 pre-arb 24 0.5 0.2 +3.7
Daniel Bard 35 arb 23 0.5 0.2 +3.5
Joshua Fuentes 27 – 30 0.5 – –
Jon Gray 28 arb 8 0.5 5.6 -2.3
Charlie Blackmon 33 FA-elig 59 0.3 21.5 -19.0
Kevin Pillar↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 24 0.3 1.9 -0.0
Tyler Kinley 29 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.2 +1.4
Sam Hilliard 26 pre-arb 36 0.2 0.2 +1.0
Garrett Hampson 25 pre-arb 53 0.2 0.2 +0.9
Jeff Hoffman 27 pre-arb 16 0.1 0.2 +0.7
Ryan McMahon 25 pre-arb 52 0.1 0.2 +0.6
Chi Chi González 28 – 6 0.1 – –
Joe Harvey 28 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.2 +0.1
Jesus Tinoco↔ MIA 25 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Chris Owings 28 arb 17 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Tommy Doyle 24 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Phillip Diehl 25 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Antonio Santos 23 – 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Elias Díaz 29 arb 26 -0.1 0.2 -0.9
Matt Kemp 35 FA-elig 43 -0.1 0.4 -1.1
AJ Ramos 33 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.9
Carlos Estévez 27 arb 26 -0.2 1.1 -2.2
Ashton Goudeau 27 – 4 -0.2 0.1 -1.3
James Pazos 29 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.1 -1.7
José Mujica 24 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -1.9
Jairo Díaz 29 pre-arb 24 -0.3 0.2 -2.6
Drew Butera 36 FA-elig 29 -0.3 0.4 -2.8
Wade Davis 34 FA-elig 5 -0.4 17.0 -19.6
Brendan Rodgers 23 pre-arb 7 -0.4 0.1 -3.2
Mychal Givens↔ BAL 30 arb 10 -0.5 1.5 -4.9
Tony Wolters 28 arb 42 -0.6 1.9 -6.4
Ryan Castellani 24 – 10 -0.6 0.2 -4.8
Daniel Murphy 35 FA-elig 40 -0.9 8.0 -14.9
David Dahl 26 arb 24 -1.0 2.5 -9.6

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (95%). 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.