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GM: Sam Menzin (since 2022)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.9
WAB — wins above budget
-20.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
66–96 (0.407)
record
-84M
surplus $M (value/$)
13.1
roster fWAR
$131.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Tarik Skubal 25 pre-arb 21 2.9 0.7 +9.8
Javier Báez 29 FA-elig 144 2.0 20.0 -12.8
Joe Jiménez 27 arb 62 1.4 1.8 +3.4
Jonathan Schoop 30 FA-elig 131 1.3 7.5 -2.9
Eric Haase 29 pre-arb 110 1.2 0.7 +3.6
Matt Manning 24 pre-arb 13 1.0 0.7 +3.1
Riley Greene 21 – 93 1.0 0.4 +3.4
Andrew Chafin 32 FA-elig 64 0.9 6.5 -3.1
Willi Castro 25 pre-arb 112 0.8 0.7 +2.3
Jason Foley 26 pre-arb 60 0.8 0.6 +2.3
Alex Lange 26 pre-arb 71 0.7 0.7 +2.0
Michael Fulmer↔ MIN 29 FA-elig 41 0.7 3.0 -0.4
Eduardo Rodriguez 29 FA-elig 17 0.6 14.0 -11.7
Gregory Soto 27 pre-arb 64 0.6 0.7 +1.3
Joey Wentz 24 – 7 0.5 0.1 +1.8
Kerry Carpenter 24 – 31 0.5 0.2 +1.6
Will Vest 27 pre-arb 59 0.4 0.7 +0.9
Alex Faedo 26 – 12 0.3 0.2 +1.1
Tucker Barnhart 31 FA-elig 94 0.3 7.5 -6.5
Rony García 24 pre-arb 16 0.2 0.7 +0.1
Ryan Kreidler 24 – 26 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Derek Hill 26 – 31 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Beau Brieske 24 – 15 0.1 0.6 -0.2
José Cisnero 33 arb 28 0.1 1.9 -1.5
Casey Mize 25 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Luis F. Castillo 27 – 3 0.1 – –
Drew Hutchison 31 FA-elig 28 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Drew Carlton 26 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Dustin Garneau 34 FA-elig 8 0.0 1.2 -1.0
Miguel Díaz 27 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Jeimer Candelario 28 FA-elig 124 0.0 5.8 -5.7
Wily Peralta 33 FA-elig 28 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Victor Reyes 27 arb 92 -0.0 1.4 -1.4
Daniel Norris↔ CHC 29 FA-elig 14 -0.0 0.6 -0.8
Bryan Garcia 27 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Tyler Alexander 27 pre-arb 27 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Daz Cameron 25 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Josh Lester 27 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Angel De Jesus 25 – 8 -0.1 – –
Derek Law↔ CIN 31 – 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Zack Short 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Brendon Davis 24 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Austin Meadows 27 arb 36 -0.2 4.0 -4.6
Garrett Hill 26 – 17 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Robbie Grossman↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 83 -0.2 3.2 -4.1
Akil Baddoo 23 pre-arb 73 -0.2 0.5 -1.4
Kody Clemens 26 – 57 -0.2 0.4 -1.3
Harold Castro 28 arb 120 -0.3 1.3 -2.3
Jacob Barnes↔ NYY 32 FA-elig 22 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
Michael Pineda 33 FA-elig 11 -0.4 5.8 -7.4
Spencer Torkelson 22 – 110 -0.8 0.5 -3.6
Elvin Rodríguez 24 – 7 -1.0 0.1 -3.8
Miguel Cabrera 39 FA-elig 112 -1.3 32.0 -36.8

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 51 of them (96%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

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 DET
Max Scherzer200922.2
Carlos Guillén200418.3
Ian Kinsler201316.3
Jeremy Bonderman200215.8
Damion Easley199615.4
Austin Jackson200914.8
Mickey Tettleton199114.4
Chet Lemon198114.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
John Smoltz198781.6
Luis Gonzalez199833.8
Chris Hoiles198824.8
Howard Johnson198422.8
Justin Verlander201719.7
Rick Porcello201413.1
Robbie Ray201411.8
Matt Joyce200810.7
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.