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GM: Jeff Luhnow (since 2012)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.8
WAB — wins above budget
-0.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
70–92 (0.432)
record
+22M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.5
roster fWAR
$47.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jose Altuve 24 arb 158 5.2 1.2 +13.9
Dallas Keuchel 26 pre-arb 30 3.5 0.5 +9.6
Collin McHugh 27 pre-arb 25 3.0 0.4 +8.3
Jason Castro 27 arb 126 2.1 2.5 +3.8
Dexter Fowler 28 FA-elig 116 2.1 7.3 -1.1
Brett Oberholtzer 24 pre-arb 24 2.1 0.5 +5.6
Chris Carter 27 arb 145 1.9 0.5 +4.9
George Springer 24 – 78 1.9 0.5 +4.9
Josh Fields 28 pre-arb 54 1.4 0.5 +3.7
Marwin Gonzalez 25 pre-arb 103 1.3 0.5 +3.3
Scott Feldman 31 FA-elig 29 1.3 12.0 -8.4
Carlos Corporán 30 arb 55 1.2 0.5 +2.9
Jarred Cosart↔ MIA 24 pre-arb 20 0.9 0.3 +2.2
Tony Sipp 30 arb 56 0.9 0.4 +2.1
Jake Marisnick↔ MIA 23 pre-arb 51 0.8 0.4 +1.9
Enrique Hernández↔ MIA 22 – 24 0.7 0.1 +1.9
Robbie Grossman 24 pre-arb 103 0.6 0.5 +1.2
Chad Qualls 35 FA-elig 58 0.5 2.7 -1.2
Gregorio Petit 29 – 37 0.5 – –
Nick Tropeano 23 – 4 0.4 0.1 +1.0
Samuel Deduno↔ MIN 30 arb 5 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Matt Albers 31 FA-elig 8 0.2 2.2 -1.7
Max Stassi 23 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Jonathan Villar 23 pre-arb 87 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Jose Veras↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 34 0.1 2.8 -2.7
José Cisnero 25 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Kyle Farnsworth↔ NYM 38 – 16 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
David Martinez 26 – 3 -0.0 – –
Mike Foltynewicz 22 – 16 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Rudy Owens 26 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Lucas Harrell 29 arb 3 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Alex Presley 28 pre-arb 89 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Darin Downs 29 pre-arb 45 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Jorge De Leon 26 – 8 -0.2 – –
Jake Buchanan 24 – 17 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Raul Valdes 36 – 8 -0.3 – –
Kevin Chapman 26 pre-arb 21 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Brad Peacock 26 arb 28 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Jerome Williams↔ PHI 32 FA-elig 26 -0.4 1.5 -2.6
Jesus Guzman 30 arb 69 -0.5 1.3 -2.8
Domingo Santana 21 – 6 -0.5 – –
Paul Clemens 26 pre-arb 13 -0.6 0.1 -1.8
Marc Krauss 26 pre-arb 67 -0.6 0.5 -2.4
Josh Zeid 27 pre-arb 23 -0.6 0.3 -2.2
L.J. Hoes 24 pre-arb 55 -0.7 0.5 -2.4
Jon Singleton 22 pre-arb 95 -0.9 1.5 -4.2
Anthony Bass 26 arb 21 -1.0 0.5 -3.5
Matt Dominguez 24 arb 157 -1.3 0.5 -4.4

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 43 of them (90%). 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 HOU
Jeff Bagwell199080.2
Yordan Álvarez201626.7
Mike Scott198221.9
Justin Verlander201719.7
Mike Hampton199319.2
Kevin Bass198217.5
Nolan Ryan198516.2
Moisés Alou199713.5
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Kenny Lofton199142.5
Curt Schilling199236.3
Ben Zobrist200633.1
Ken Caminiti199417.4
Freddy García199815.6
Jed Lowrie201313.0
Ramón Laureano20179.2
Patrick Sandoval20188.9
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.