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GM: Dana Brown (since 2023)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.0
WAB — wins above budget
+5.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · made playoffs
-25M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.6
roster fWAR
$194.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Kyle Tucker 26 arb 157 4.9 5.0 +14.5
Framber Valdez 29 arb 31 4.4 6.8 +10.8
Alex Bregman 29 FA-elig 161 4.4 30.5 -13.1
Yordan Alvarez 26 arb 114 4.3 7.8 +9.2
Jose Altuve 33 FA-elig 90 4.1 29.0 -12.9
Chas McCormick 28 pre-arb 115 3.3 0.8 +12.2
Jeremy Peña 25 pre-arb 150 2.7 0.8 +10.0
Yainer Diaz 24 pre-arb 104 2.4 0.7 +8.9
Cristian Javier 26 arb 31 2.0 3.4 +4.5
Hunter Brown 24 pre-arb 31 1.8 0.7 +6.6
Mauricio Dubón 28 arb 132 1.8 1.4 +5.7
Bryan Abreu 26 arb 72 1.5 0.7 +5.3
Justin Verlander↔ NYM 40 FA-elig 11 1.5 17.7 -11.8
J.P. France 28 – 24 1.3 0.6 +4.7
Ryan Pressly 34 FA-elig 65 1.1 14.0 -9.6
Jake Meyers 27 pre-arb 112 1.1 0.7 +3.5
Héctor Neris 34 FA-elig 71 0.9 8.0 -4.5
Luis Garcia 26 arb 6 0.7 0.8 +2.0
Phil Maton 30 FA-elig 68 0.6 2.5 -0.1
Corey Julks 27 – 93 0.4 0.5 +1.1
José Urquidy 28 arb 16 0.2 3.0 -2.2
Bennett Sousa↔ MIL 28 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Grae Kessinger 25 – 26 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Brandon Bielak 27 pre-arb 15 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Michael Brantley 36 FA-elig 15 0.1 12.0 -11.4
Rafael Montero 32 FA-elig 68 0.1 11.5 -11.0
Seth Martinez 28 pre-arb 35 0.1 0.7 -0.2
Shawn Dubin 27 – 3 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Ryne Stanek 31 FA-elig 55 0.1 3.6 -3.3
Matt Gage 30 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Kendall Graveman↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 23 -0.1 2.7 -3.0
Joel Kuhnel↔ CIN 28 arb 7 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Jon Singleton↔ MIL 31 pre-arb 25 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Rylan Bannon 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
César Salazar 27 – 13 -0.1 0.3 -0.9
Bligh Madris 27 pre-arb 12 -0.3 0.1 -1.5
Parker Mushinski 27 pre-arb 14 -0.3 0.4 -1.8
Ronel Blanco 29 pre-arb 17 -0.4 0.7 -2.1
José Abreu 36 FA-elig 141 -0.5 19.5 -21.5
David Hensley 27 pre-arb 30 -0.8 0.7 -3.9
Martín Maldonado 36 FA-elig 117 -1.0 4.0 -7.8

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.