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GM: Josh Byrnes (since 2026)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-12.6 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-13.1 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
24–38 (0.387)
record
+50M
surplus $M (value/$)
14.8
roster fWAR
$87.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mickey Moniak 28 arb 43 3.6 4.0 +29.0
Hunter Goodman 26 pre-arb 56 2.8 0.8 +25.0
TJ Rumfield 26 – 59 2.2 0.8 +19.7
Jake McCarthy 28 arb 51 2.0 1.5 +16.7
Antonio Senzatela 31 FA-elig 17 1.9 12.0 +5.8
Kyle Karros 23 pre-arb 58 1.4 0.8 +12.5
Troy Johnston 29 pre-arb 57 1.4 0.8 +12.0
Brennan Bernardino 34 pre-arb 28 1.3 0.9 +11.3
Jaden Hill 26 pre-arb 24 1.2 0.8 +10.3
Chase Dollander 24 pre-arb 10 1.0 0.8 +8.4
Juan Mejia 25 pre-arb 25 1.0 0.8 +8.2
Jimmy Herget 32 arb 15 0.9 1.6 +6.6
Tanner Gordon 28 pre-arb 9 0.8 0.7 +6.4
Michael Lorenzen 34 FA-elig 13 0.7 7.8 -1.2
Willi Castro 29 FA-elig 51 0.7 5.5 +0.9
Tomoyuki Sugano 36 pre-arb 12 0.6 5.1 +0.5
Jose Quintana 37 FA-elig 9 0.5 6.0 -1.4
Seth Halvorsen 26 pre-arb 12 0.4 0.6 +3.2
Ryan Feltner 29 arb 6 0.3 2.5 +0.6
Tyler Freeman 27 arb 40 0.3 1.5 +1.0
Keegan Thompson 31 arb 3 0.1 1.0 -0.2
Welinton Herrera 22 – 3 0.1 0.5 +0.2
TJ Shook 28 – 1 0.0 – –
Blas Castaño 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.5 -1.1
Ryan Ritter 25 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.7
Sammy Peralta 28 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.9
Zach Agnos 25 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.8 -2.1
Braxton Fulford 27 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.6 -2.2
Victor Vodnik 26 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.8 -3.5
Sterlin Thompson 25 – 14 -0.4 0.6 -4.3
Chad Stevens 27 pre-arb 10 -0.4 0.5 -4.5
Kyle Freeland 33 FA-elig 11 -0.6 16.0 -21.8
Ezequiel Tovar 24 arb 60 -0.7 5.2 -11.8
Brett Sullivan 32 pre-arb 30 -1.2 0.8 -12.0
Brenton Doyle 28 pre-arb 43 -1.3 3.1 -15.3
Valente Bellozo 26 pre-arb 3 -1.4 0.0 -13.1
Jordan Beck 25 pre-arb 30 -1.6 0.8 -16.0
Edouard Julien 27 pre-arb 51 -1.7 0.8 -16.1

38 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (97%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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.