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GM: Bill Schmidt (since 2022)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-35.5
WAB — wins above budget
-33.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
43–119 (0.265)
record
-124M
surplus $M (value/$)
-2.6
roster fWAR
$114.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Hunter Goodman 25 pre-arb 144 3.4 0.8 +12.2
Kyle Freeland 32 FA-elig 31 2.5 16.0 -6.6
Ryan McMahon↔ NYY 30 – 100 1.3 2.7 +2.3
Jimmy Herget 31 arb 59 1.3 0.8 +3.9
Jordan Beck 24 pre-arb 148 0.9 0.7 +2.7
Ezequiel Tovar 23 pre-arb 95 0.8 4.2 -1.0
Jake Bird↔ NYY 29 – 45 0.7 0.5 +2.2
Juan Mejia 24 – 55 0.7 0.6 +2.1
Mickey Moniak 27 arb 135 0.6 1.2 +1.2
Tanner Gordon 27 pre-arb 15 0.6 0.4 +1.7
Victor Vodnik 25 pre-arb 52 0.5 0.8 +1.3
Brenton Doyle 27 pre-arb 138 0.5 0.8 +1.0
Ryan Feltner 28 pre-arb 6 0.4 1.2 +0.3
Germán Márquez 30 FA-elig 26 0.3 14.0 -12.9
Jaden Hill 25 pre-arb 28 0.3 0.3 +0.8
Tyler Kinley↔ ATL 34 – 49 0.3 1.8 -0.7
Ryan Ritter 24 – 60 0.1 0.5 -0.0
Blaine Crim↔ TEX 28 – 15 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Chase Dollander 23 – 21 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Owen Miller 28 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Kyle Karros 22 – 43 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Sam Hilliard 31 arb 20 -0.0 1.0 -1.0
Nick Anderson 34 – 12 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Keston Hiura 28 arb 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Lucas Gilbreath 29 arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Dugan Darnell 28 – 9 -0.0 0.2 -0.4
Drew Romo 23 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Antonio Senzatela 30 FA-elig 30 -0.1 12.0 -12.3
Roansy Contreras↔ BAL 25 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Thairo Estrada 29 arb 39 -0.3 3.2 -4.2
Seth Halvorsen 25 pre-arb 42 -0.3 0.8 -1.7
Zac Veen 23 – 12 -0.3 0.1 -1.3
Aaron Schunk 27 pre-arb 16 -0.3 0.2 -1.4
McCade Brown 24 – 7 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Alan Trejo 29 – 14 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Austin Gomber 31 – 12 -0.4 6.3 -7.7
Zach Agnos 24 – 30 -0.4 0.6 -2.0
Warming Bernabel 23 – 40 -0.4 0.3 -1.7
Nick Martini 35 pre-arb 43 -0.5 0.8 -2.6
Scott Alexander↔ SFG 35 – 19 -0.5 1.8 -3.5
Braxton Fulford 26 – 38 -0.5 0.4 -2.2
Austin Nola 35 arb 15 -0.5 0.2 -2.0
Kris Bryant 33 FA-elig 11 -0.5 27.0 -28.9
Anthony Molina 23 pre-arb 17 -0.6 0.3 -2.4
Orlando Arcia↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 62 -0.6 1.6 -3.7
Carson Palmquist 24 – 9 -0.6 0.2 -2.5
Ryan Rolison 27 pre-arb 31 -0.7 0.5 -3.1
Angel Chivilli 22 pre-arb 43 -0.7 0.5 -3.2
Sean Bouchard 29 pre-arb 32 -0.7 0.3 -3.1
Yanquiel Fernández 22 – 52 -0.7 0.4 -3.2
Luis Peralta 24 pre-arb 22 -0.7 0.3 -3.1
Tyler Freeman 26 pre-arb 110 -0.8 0.8 -3.7
Adael Amador 22 pre-arb 41 -0.9 0.2 -3.6
Bradley Blalock 24 pre-arb 14 -1.0 0.3 -4.1
Jacob Stallings↔ BAL 35 – 29 -1.0 1.6 -5.6
Kyle Farmer 34 FA-elig 97 -1.1 2.6 -6.9
Michael Toglia 26 pre-arb 88 -2.2 0.6 -8.8

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.