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GM: Bill Schmidt (since 2022)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-23.3
WAB — wins above budget
-27.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
59–103 (0.364)
record
-128M
surplus $M (value/$)
7.5
roster fWAR
$157.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nolan Jones 25 pre-arb 106 3.8 0.5 +14.5
Ryan McMahon 28 FA-elig 152 1.8 9.0 -1.9
Ezequiel Tovar 21 pre-arb 153 1.7 0.7 +5.9
Jake Bird 27 pre-arb 70 1.5 0.7 +5.1
Brent Suter 33 FA-elig 57 1.3 3.0 +2.2
Justin Lawrence 28 pre-arb 69 1.2 0.7 +4.0
Kyle Freeland 30 FA-elig 29 1.2 10.5 -5.8
Austin Gomber 29 arb 27 0.9 1.6 +2.0
Ryan Feltner 26 pre-arb 10 0.9 0.7 +2.9
Charlie Blackmon 36 FA-elig 96 0.8 15.0 -11.9
Randal Grichuk↔ ANA 31 – 64 0.6 5.6 -3.2
Sean Bouchard 27 pre-arb 21 0.5 0.7 +1.1
Brenton Doyle 25 – 126 0.4 0.6 +1.1
Brad Hand↔ ATL 33 FA-elig 40 0.4 2.0 -0.4
Germán Márquez 28 FA-elig 4 0.2 15.3 -14.3
Pierce Johnson↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 43 0.2 3.2 -2.3
Peter Lambert 26 arb 25 0.2 0.8 +0.1
Brendan Rodgers 26 arb 46 0.2 2.7 -1.9
Victor Vodnik 23 – 6 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Nick Mears 26 pre-arb 16 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Mike Moustakas↔ ANA 34 FA-elig 47 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Chris Flexen↔ SEA 28 FA-elig 12 0.1 3.3 -2.8
Chase Anderson↔ TBR 35 FA-elig 17 0.1 0.5 +0.1
Ty Blach 32 FA-elig 20 0.1 1.1 -0.6
Cole Tucker 26 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Tyler Kinley 32 arb 18 0.1 1.2 -0.9
Austin Wynns↔ LAD 32 pre-arb 45 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Justin Bruihl↔ LAD 26 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Blair Calvo 27 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Noah Davis 26 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
C.J. Cron↔ ANA 33 FA-elig 56 -0.0 5.7 -5.8
Evan Justice 24 – 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Matt Carasiti 31 pre-arb 16 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Riley Pint 25 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Connor Kaiser 26 – 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Matt Koch 32 pre-arb 39 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Elias Díaz 32 FA-elig 141 -0.1 5.5 -5.7
Connor Seabold 27 pre-arb 27 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Fernando Abad 37 FA-elig 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Antonio Senzatela 28 FA-elig 2 -0.2 7.2 -7.9
Karl Kauffmann 25 – 11 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Dinelson Lamet↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 16 -0.2 4.7 -5.6
Alan Trejo 27 pre-arb 83 -0.2 0.7 -1.7
Jorge Alfaro↔ BOS 30 – 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Brian Serven 28 pre-arb 11 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
Hunter Goodman 23 – 23 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Tommy Doyle 27 pre-arb 15 -0.3 0.2 -1.4
Yonathan Daza 29 arb 24 -0.4 0.7 -2.3
Coco Montes 26 – 18 -0.4 0.1 -1.7
Gavin Hollowell 25 pre-arb 26 -0.5 0.3 -2.2
Daniel Bard 38 FA-elig 50 -0.5 9.5 -11.5
José Ureña↔ CHW 31 FA-elig 5 -0.8 1.5 -4.6
Elehuris Montero 24 pre-arb 85 -0.9 0.7 -4.2
Michael Toglia 24 pre-arb 45 -1.1 0.3 -4.7
Kris Bryant 31 FA-elig 80 -1.2 28.0 -32.6
Harold Castro 29 arb 99 -1.5 1.3 -7.2
Jurickson Profar↔ SDP 30 FA-elig 111 -1.7 6.9 -13.7

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.