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GM: Bill Schmidt (since 2022)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-12.5
WAB — wins above budget
-11.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
-49M
surplus $M (value/$)
21.3
roster fWAR
$126.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ryan McMahon 27 arb 153 3.1 5.0 +6.2
Kyle Freeland 29 arb 31 2.5 7.0 +2.1
Brendan Rodgers 25 pre-arb 137 1.8 0.7 +6.0
Daniel Bard 37 FA-elig 57 1.8 4.4 +2.1
Antonio Senzatela 27 arb 19 1.4 7.2 -2.2
C.J. Cron 32 FA-elig 150 1.4 7.2 -2.3
Jose Iglesias 32 FA-elig 118 1.3 5.0 -0.1
Germán Márquez 27 FA-elig 31 1.3 11.3 -6.6
Sean Bouchard 26 – 27 0.9 0.3 +3.1
Tyler Kinley 31 arb 25 0.9 1.0 +2.4
Yonathan Daza 28 pre-arb 113 0.9 0.7 +2.4
Austin Gomber 28 pre-arb 33 0.9 0.7 +2.4
José Ureña↔ MIL 30 FA-elig 17 0.8 1.0 +2.0
Kris Bryant 30 FA-elig 42 0.6 18.0 -15.7
Lucas Gilbreath 26 pre-arb 47 0.6 0.7 +1.5
Ryan Feltner 25 pre-arb 20 0.6 0.4 +1.7
Brian Serven 27 – 62 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Justin Lawrence 27 pre-arb 38 0.6 0.4 +1.6
Randal Grichuk 30 FA-elig 141 0.5 10.3 -8.7
Chad Kuhl 29 FA-elig 27 0.4 3.0 -1.4
Alan Trejo 26 pre-arb 35 0.4 0.3 +1.3
Carlos Estévez 29 FA-elig 62 0.3 3.0 -1.8
Connor Joe 29 pre-arb 111 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Ty Blach 31 pre-arb 24 0.3 0.5 +0.6
Dinelson Lamet↔ SDP 29 arb 19 0.3 2.8 -1.8
Elehuris Montero 23 – 53 0.2 0.4 +0.4
Charlie Blackmon 35 FA-elig 135 0.2 21.0 -20.4
Robert Stephenson↔ PIT 29 FA-elig 45 0.0 1.0 -0.9
Gavin Hollowell 24 – 6 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jordan Sheffield 27 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Wynton Bernard 31 – 12 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Ashton Goudeau 29 pre-arb 12 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Noah Davis 25 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Chad Smith 27 – 15 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Alex Colomé 33 FA-elig 53 -0.1 4.1 -4.5
Michael Toglia 23 – 31 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Ezequiel Tovar 20 – 9 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Garrett Hampson 27 arb 90 -0.2 1.9 -2.6
Jhoulys Chacín 34 FA-elig 35 -0.2 1.2 -2.1
Jake Bird 26 – 38 -0.3 0.4 -1.5
Dom Nuñez 27 pre-arb 14 -0.4 0.2 -1.5
Sam Hilliard 28 pre-arb 70 -0.7 0.5 -3.1
Elias Díaz 31 FA-elig 105 -1.2 3.0 -7.3

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.