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GM: Jeff Luhnow (since 2012)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.1
WAB — wins above budget
+12.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
84–78 (0.519)
record
+47M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.8
roster fWAR
$91.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jose Altuve 26 arb 161 7.2 3.5 +19.8
George Springer 26 pre-arb 162 4.5 0.5 +14.0
Carlos Correa 21 pre-arb 153 4.1 0.5 +12.7
Evan Gattis 29 arb 128 3.2 3.2 +7.2
Jason Castro 29 FA-elig 113 2.9 5.0 +4.4
Chris Devenski 25 – 48 2.7 0.5 +8.4
Collin McHugh 29 arb 33 2.6 0.5 +8.0
Dallas Keuchel 28 arb 26 2.4 7.2 +0.4
Lance McCullers Jr. 22 pre-arb 14 1.9 0.5 +5.8
Luis Valbuena 30 FA-elig 90 1.9 6.1 +0.1
Will Harris 31 arb 66 1.7 0.5 +5.0
Mike Fiers 31 arb 31 1.5 0.5 +4.5
Ken Giles 25 pre-arb 69 1.4 0.5 +3.9
Alex Bregman 22 – 49 1.3 0.2 +4.1
Marwin Gonzalez 27 arb 141 1.2 2.0 +1.8
Luke Gregerson 32 FA-elig 59 1.1 6.2 -2.6
Jake Marisnick 25 arb 118 1.0 0.5 +2.7
Colby Rasmus 29 FA-elig 107 1.0 15.8 -12.7
Doug Fister 32 FA-elig 32 0.7 7.0 -4.7
Joe Musgrove 23 – 11 0.7 0.2 +2.1
Michael Feliz 23 pre-arb 47 0.7 0.5 +1.7
Pat Neshek 35 FA-elig 60 0.5 6.5 -5.0
Yuli Gurriel 32 pre-arb 36 0.3 1.9 -0.9
Scott Feldman↔ TOR 33 FA-elig 26 0.2 5.2 -4.5
Josh Fields↔ LAD 30 arb 15 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Jandel Gustave 23 – 14 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Teoscar Hernández 23 – 41 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Kevin Chapman 28 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.1 +0.2
David Paulino 22 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tyler White 25 pre-arb 86 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Brady Rodgers 25 – 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Danny Worth 30 pre-arb 16 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Brad Peacock 28 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Matt Duffy 27 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Tony Kemp 24 – 59 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
James Hoyt 29 – 22 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Max Stassi 25 arb 9 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Colin Moran 23 – 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Erik Kratz↔ PIT 36 FA-elig 15 -0.4 0.4 -1.7
Carlos Gómez↔ TEX 30 FA-elig 85 -0.6 6.5 -8.5
AJ Reed 23 pre-arb 45 -0.7 0.2 -2.5
Tony Sipp 32 FA-elig 60 -0.8 6.0 -8.7
Preston Tucker 25 pre-arb 48 -0.9 0.5 -3.4

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.