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President of baseball ops: Scott Harris (since 2023)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.2
WAB — wins above budget
-5.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-21M
surplus $M (value/$)
25.8
roster fWAR
$123.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Tarik Skubal 26 pre-arb 15 3.3 0.7 +12.4
Eduardo Rodriguez 30 FA-elig 26 3.1 14.0 -1.8
Jake Rogers 28 arb 107 2.5 0.7 +9.3
Riley Greene 22 pre-arb 99 2.3 0.7 +8.2
Kerry Carpenter 25 pre-arb 118 1.9 0.7 +6.7
Michael Lorenzen↔ PHI 31 FA-elig 18 1.7 5.3 +1.6
Matt Vierling 26 pre-arb 134 1.7 0.7 +5.9
Andy Ibáñez 30 pre-arb 114 1.6 0.6 +5.7
Jason Foley 27 pre-arb 70 1.6 0.7 +5.4
Reese Olson 23 – 21 1.5 0.5 +5.6
Spencer Torkelson 23 pre-arb 159 1.3 0.7 +4.6
Will Vest 28 pre-arb 48 1.2 0.6 +4.0
Zach McKinstry 28 arb 148 1.1 0.7 +3.5
Tyler Holton 27 pre-arb 59 1.0 0.7 +3.3
Parker Meadows 23 – 37 0.9 0.2 +3.5
Matthew Boyd 32 FA-elig 15 0.9 10.0 -6.4
Javier Báez 30 FA-elig 136 0.7 22.0 -19.3
Akil Baddoo 24 pre-arb 112 0.7 0.7 +2.0
Matt Manning 25 pre-arb 15 0.7 0.7 +1.9
Sawyer Gipson-Long 25 – 4 0.5 0.1 +1.9
Alex Faedo 27 pre-arb 15 0.5 0.5 +1.5
Miguel Díaz 28 pre-arb 12 0.4 0.1 +1.5
Jake Marisnick↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 33 0.3 0.6 +0.7
Beau Brieske 25 pre-arb 25 0.3 0.7 +0.3
Chasen Shreve↔ CIN 32 FA-elig 47 0.2 1.2 -0.2
Brendan White 24 – 33 0.2 0.4 +0.5
Tyler Alexander 28 arb 25 0.1 1.9 -1.4
Trey Wingenter 29 arb 17 0.1 1.0 -0.8
Carson Kelly↔ ARI 28 FA-elig 19 0.0 1.6 -1.5
José Cisnero 34 FA-elig 63 0.0 2.3 -2.2
Braden Bristo↔ TBR 28 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Nick Solak↔ ATL 28 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Brenan Hanifee 25 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Alex Lange 27 pre-arb 67 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Spencer Turnbull 30 arb 7 -0.0 2.1 -2.3
Andrew Vasquez↔ PHI 29 arb 12 -0.0 0.2 -0.4
Austin Meadows 28 arb 6 -0.1 4.3 -4.6
Zach Logue 27 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Zack Short 28 pre-arb 112 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Anthony Misiewicz↔ ARI 28 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Isan Díaz↔ SFG 27 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Ryan Kreidler 25 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.7 -1.4
Andre Lipcius 25 – 13 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Jonathan Schoop 31 FA-elig 55 -0.3 7.5 -8.7
Tyler Nevin 26 pre-arb 41 -0.5 0.3 -2.3
Garrett Hill 27 pre-arb 9 -0.5 0.7 -2.8
Joey Wentz 25 pre-arb 25 -0.5 0.7 -2.9
Mason Englert 23 – 31 -0.7 0.7 -3.3
Miguel Cabrera 40 FA-elig 98 -0.7 32.0 -34.8
Eric Haase↔ CLE 30 arb 86 -1.1 0.7 -4.9
Nick Maton 26 pre-arb 93 -1.1 0.7 -5.0

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.