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GM: James Click (since 2021)

2021 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.4
WAB — wins above budget
+12.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · won pennant
-4M
surplus $M (value/$)
50.4
roster fWAR
$167.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Carlos Correa 26 FA-elig 148 6.3 11.7 +8.7
Jose Altuve 31 FA-elig 146 5.3 29.0 -11.9
Kyle Tucker 24 pre-arb 140 4.9 0.6 +15.4
Yordan Alvarez 24 pre-arb 144 3.5 0.6 +10.7
Yuli Gurriel 37 arb 143 3.2 6.5 +3.9
Lance McCullers Jr. 27 FA-elig 30 3.1 6.5 +3.7
Luis Garcia 24 pre-arb 30 3.0 0.6 +9.2
Ryan Pressly 32 FA-elig 64 2.4 8.8 -0.9
Michael Brantley 34 FA-elig 121 2.2 16.0 -9.0
Alex Bregman 27 arb 91 2.1 13.0 -6.0
Chas McCormick 26 – 108 2.1 0.6 +6.2
José Urquidy 26 pre-arb 20 1.8 0.6 +5.2
Framber Valdez 27 pre-arb 22 1.8 0.6 +5.1
Aledmys Díaz 30 arb 84 1.5 3.0 +1.7
Jason Castro 34 FA-elig 66 1.2 3.5 +0.4
Zack Greinke 37 FA-elig 30 1.2 35.0 -31.1
Jake Meyers 25 – 49 1.1 0.2 +3.4
Jake Odorizzi 31 FA-elig 24 1.1 9.0 -5.6
Myles Straw↔ CLE 26 – 98 1.0 0.2 +3.1
Brooks Raley 33 FA-elig 58 0.8 2.0 +0.5
Jose Siri 25 – 21 0.6 0.1 +1.9
Cristian Javier 24 pre-arb 36 0.6 0.6 +1.4
Ryne Stanek 29 arb 72 0.4 1.1 +0.2
Martín Maldonado 34 FA-elig 125 0.3 3.5 -2.5
Yimi García↔ MIA 30 FA-elig 23 0.3 0.7 +0.2
Kendall Graveman↔ SEA 30 FA-elig 23 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Abraham Toro↔ SEA 24 – 35 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Brandon Bielak 25 pre-arb 28 0.2 0.5 +0.3
Rafael Montero↔ SEA 30 FA-elig 4 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Peter Solomon 24 – 6 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Phil Maton↔ CLE 28 arb 27 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Bryan Abreu 24 pre-arb 31 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Blake Taylor 25 pre-arb 51 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Jacob Wilson↔ OAK 30 – 6 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Alex De Goti 26 – 2 0.0 – –
Josh James 28 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Seth Martinez 26 – 3 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Pedro Báez 33 FA-elig 4 0.0 4.8 -4.7
Tyler Ivey 25 – 1 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Ralph Garza Jr.↔ MIN 27 – 9 -0.0 – –
Ronnie Dawson 26 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Taylor Jones 27 pre-arb 35 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Ryan Hartman 27 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Joe Smith↔ SEA 37 FA-elig 27 -0.1 2.2 -2.5
Kent Emanuel 29 – 10 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Marwin Gonzalez↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 14 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Enoli Paredes 25 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Garrett Stubbs 28 pre-arb 18 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Nivaldo Rodriguez 24 – 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Austin Pruitt↔ MIA 31 – 2 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Andre Scrubb 26 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Robel García 28 pre-arb 47 -1.0 0.4 -3.8

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 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 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.