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President of baseball ops: Scott Harris (since 2023) · GM: Jeff Greenberg (since 2024)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-22.1 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-10.5 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
25–38 (0.397)
record
+59M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.9
roster fWAR
$204.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Kevin McGonigle 21 – 59 6.3 0.8 +58.1
Dillon Dingler 27 pre-arb 55 5.9 0.8 +54.1
Riley Greene 25 arb 62 4.6 5.0 +37.7
Casey Mize 29 arb 9 4.5 6.2 +35.4
Tarik Skubal 29 arb 7 4.0 32.0 +4.8
Keider Montero 25 pre-arb 11 2.7 0.8 +24.5
Jack Flaherty 30 FA-elig 13 1.8 20.0 -3.3
Framber Valdez 32 FA-elig 12 1.7 22.8 -6.6
Gleyber Torres 29 FA-elig 33 1.4 22.0 -9.0
Drew Anderson 32 pre-arb 20 1.0 7.0 +2.4
Troy Melton 25 pre-arb 2 0.8 0.8 +6.4
Enmanuel De Jesus 29 – 17 0.7 – –
Spencer Torkelson 26 arb 61 0.7 4.1 +2.5
Parker Meadows 26 pre-arb 12 0.6 0.8 +4.8
Will Vest 31 arb 19 0.5 4.0 +0.7
Brant Hurter 27 pre-arb 21 0.4 0.8 +3.3
Ty Madden 26 pre-arb 4 0.4 0.6 +3.4
Colt Keith 24 pre-arb 56 0.3 4.3 -1.3
Zack Short 31 pre-arb 17 0.3 0.6 +1.8
Kerry Carpenter 28 arb 39 0.2 3.3 -1.0
Burch Smith 36 arb 13 0.2 1.3 +0.5
Connor Seabold↔ TOR 30 – 11 0.1 0.6 +0.6
Tyler Holton 30 arb 26 0.1 1.6 -0.8
Javier Báez 33 FA-elig 24 0.0 24.0 -23.9
Drew Sommers 25 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Jace Jung 25 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Matt Vierling 29 arb 52 -0.2 3.3 -4.8
Justin Verlander 43 FA-elig 1 -0.2 7.8 -9.7
Brenan Hanifee 28 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.6 -2.7
Jake Rogers 31 arb 20 -0.4 3.0 -7.0
Beau Brieske 28 arb 2 -0.5 1.2 -5.4
Ricky Vanasco 27 pre-arb 5 -0.6 0.6 -5.9
Kyle Finnegan 34 FA-elig 27 -0.6 8.8 -14.3
Kenley Jansen 38 FA-elig 18 -0.7 9.0 -15.3
Gage Workman 26 – 16 -1.1 0.6 -10.8
Hao-Yu Lee 23 – 32 -1.2 – –
Zach McKinstry 31 arb 40 -1.6 4.2 -19.2
Wenceel Pérez 26 pre-arb 46 -1.9 0.7 -18.6
Jahmai Jones 28 pre-arb 43 -2.2 0.8 -21.6

39 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (95%). 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 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.