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GM: Bill Schmidt (since 2022)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-18.9
WAB — wins above budget
-23.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
61–101 (0.377)
record
-102M
surplus $M (value/$)
8.5
roster fWAR
$137.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ezequiel Tovar 22 pre-arb 157 3.7 1.7 +13.5
Brenton Doyle 26 pre-arb 149 3.6 0.7 +14.1
Ryan Feltner 27 arb 30 2.5 0.7 +9.5
Ryan McMahon 29 FA-elig 153 1.9 12.0 -4.0
Austin Gomber 30 FA-elig 30 1.3 3.1 +2.1
Nick Mears↔ MIL 27 arb 41 1.0 0.6 +3.6
Kyle Freeland 31 FA-elig 22 0.9 15.0 -11.1
Jacob Stallings 34 FA-elig 82 0.9 1.5 +2.3
Brendan Rodgers 27 arb 135 0.8 3.2 -0.0
Sam Hilliard 30 arb 58 0.7 0.8 +2.0
Cal Quantrill 29 arb 29 0.5 6.5 -4.3
Michael Toglia 25 pre-arb 116 0.4 0.7 +0.9
Elias Díaz↔ SDP 33 FA-elig 84 0.4 5.2 -3.8
Victor Vodnik 24 pre-arb 64 0.4 0.7 +0.7
Jalen Beeks↔ PIT 30 FA-elig 45 0.3 1.1 +0.3
Luis Peralta 23 – 15 0.3 0.2 +1.1
Anthony Molina 22 pre-arb 35 0.2 0.7 +0.2
Peter Lambert 27 arb 28 0.2 1.2 -0.4
Seth Halvorsen 24 – 12 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Greg Jones 26 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Charlie Blackmon 37 FA-elig 124 0.0 13.0 -12.9
Dakota Hudson 29 FA-elig 18 0.0 1.5 -1.4
Aaron Schunk 26 – 39 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Chasen Shreve 33 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Noah Davis 27 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Geoff Hartlieb 30 arb 5 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Evan Justice 25 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Bradley Blalock↔ MIL 23 – 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jeff Criswell 25 – 13 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Josh Rogers 29 FA-elig 6 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Germán Márquez 29 FA-elig 1 -0.1 10.0 -10.3
Tyler Kinley 33 FA-elig 67 -0.1 1.3 -1.7
Antonio Senzatela 29 FA-elig 3 -0.1 12.0 -12.5
Lucas Gilbreath 28 arb 3 -0.1 0.8 -1.3
Jaden Hill 24 – 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Matt Carasiti 32 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
John Curtiss 31 arb 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Riley Pint 26 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.7 -1.6
Tanner Gordon 26 – 8 -0.2 0.2 -1.2
Matt Koch 33 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -1.1
Angel Chivilli 21 pre-arb 30 -0.2 0.7 -1.8
Jake Cave 31 FA-elig 123 -0.3 1.0 -2.4
Jake Bird 28 pre-arb 35 -0.3 0.7 -2.2
Drew Romo 22 – 16 -0.4 0.2 -1.8
Adael Amador 21 pre-arb 10 -0.4 0.7 -2.4
Sean Bouchard 28 pre-arb 31 -0.5 0.7 -2.9
Ty Blach 33 FA-elig 20 -0.6 0.9 -3.5
Alan Trejo 28 arb 28 -0.7 0.7 -3.6
Kris Bryant 32 FA-elig 37 -0.8 28.0 -31.3
Justin Lawrence 29 arb 56 -0.8 0.7 -4.2
Nolan Jones 26 pre-arb 79 -0.8 0.7 -4.3
Jordan Beck 23 pre-arb 55 -1.0 0.7 -4.8
Hunter Goodman 24 pre-arb 70 -1.2 0.7 -5.9
Elehuris Montero 25 pre-arb 67 -1.9 0.7 -8.6

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.