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GM: Jeff Bridich (since 2015)

2021 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.6
WAB — wins above budget
-6.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–87 (0.460)
record
-10M
surplus $M (value/$)
22.9
roster fWAR
$87.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Germán Márquez 26 arb 32 4.1 7.8 +5.4
Antonio Senzatela 26 arb 28 3.0 3.0 +6.7
Ryan McMahon 26 arb 151 2.4 2.4 +5.6
C.J. Cron 31 FA-elig 142 2.3 1.0 +6.6
Trevor Story 28 arb 142 2.2 18.5 -11.5
Jon Gray 29 FA-elig 31 2.0 6.0 +0.4
Elias Díaz 30 FA-elig 106 1.7 1.2 +4.3
Brendan Rodgers 24 pre-arb 102 1.2 0.6 +3.4
Kyle Freeland 28 arb 25 1.2 5.0 -1.3
Austin Gomber 27 pre-arb 24 1.1 0.6 +3.1
Connor Joe 28 pre-arb 63 0.9 0.4 +2.7
Daniel Bard 36 FA-elig 67 0.6 2.9 -1.0
Carlos Estévez 28 arb 64 0.6 1.4 +0.4
Robert Stephenson 28 arb 49 0.5 0.8 +0.9
Raimel Tapia 27 arb 133 0.5 1.9 -0.3
Chris Owings 29 FA-elig 21 0.5 1.0 +0.5
Dom Nuñez 26 pre-arb 81 0.4 0.6 +0.7
Sam Hilliard 27 pre-arb 81 0.4 0.3 +0.9
Yonathan Daza 27 pre-arb 107 0.3 0.6 +0.4
Chi Chi González 29 FA-elig 24 0.3 1.1 -0.2
Tyler Kinley 30 pre-arb 70 0.2 0.6 +0.1
Jordan Sheffield 26 – 30 0.2 0.6 +0.1
Lucas Gilbreath 25 – 47 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Garrett Hampson 26 pre-arb 147 0.2 0.6 +0.0
Antonio Santos 24 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Jhoulys Chacín 33 FA-elig 46 0.1 0.8 -0.6
Ashton Goudeau↔ CIN 28 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Ben Bowden 26 – 39 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Justin Lawrence 26 – 19 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Mychal Givens↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 31 0.0 2.3 -2.2
Zac Rosscup 33 arb 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Charlie Blackmon 34 FA-elig 150 -0.1 21.5 -21.7
Julian Fernández 25 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Taylor Motter↔ BOS 31 – 13 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Ryan Vilade 22 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Peter Lambert 24 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Ryan Castellani 25 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
Ryan Feltner 24 – 2 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Rio Ruiz↔ BAL 27 pre-arb 30 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Jesus Tinoco 26 pre-arb 1 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Colton Welker 23 – 19 -0.4 0.1 -1.2
Alan Trejo 25 – 28 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Matt Adams 32 – 22 -0.5 0.5 -2.1
Yency Almonte 27 pre-arb 48 -0.5 0.6 -2.2
Joshua Fuentes 28 – 95 -1.0 – –

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 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.