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GM: Dana Brown (since 2023)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.8
WAB — wins above budget
+0.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–73 (0.547)
record · made playoffs
-84M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.3
roster fWAR
$251.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yordan Alvarez 27 arb 147 5.2 10.8 +10.9
Kyle Tucker 27 FA-elig 78 4.2 12.0 +5.5
Alex Bregman 30 FA-elig 145 4.2 30.5 -13.1
Jose Altuve 34 FA-elig 153 3.9 29.0 -12.9
Framber Valdez 30 FA-elig 28 3.7 12.1 +3.1
Hunter Brown 25 pre-arb 31 3.2 0.8 +12.4
Yainer Diaz 25 pre-arb 148 3.0 0.8 +11.5
Jeremy Peña 26 pre-arb 157 2.7 0.8 +10.7
Ronel Blanco 30 pre-arb 30 2.2 0.7 +8.4
Jake Meyers 28 arb 148 2.0 0.8 +7.4
Victor Caratini 30 FA-elig 87 1.9 6.0 +1.9
Spencer Arrighetti 24 pre-arb 29 1.7 0.7 +6.2
Yusei Kikuchi↔ TOR 33 arb 10 1.4 3.1 +2.8
Mauricio Dubón 29 arb 137 1.1 3.5 +1.1
Josh Hader 30 FA-elig 71 0.9 19.0 -15.0
Bryan Abreu 27 arb 78 0.9 1.8 +1.9
Ryan Pressly 35 FA-elig 59 0.9 14.0 -10.4
Justin Verlander 41 FA-elig 17 0.7 43.3 -40.5
César Salazar 28 pre-arb 12 0.4 0.7 +1.0
Bryan King 27 – 28 0.4 0.3 +1.4
Jason Heyward↔ LAD 34 FA-elig 24 0.3 2.5 -1.1
Joey Loperfido↔ TOR 25 pre-arb 38 0.3 0.3 +1.1
Shawn Dubin 28 pre-arb 31 0.3 0.7 +0.6
Caleb Ferguson↔ NYY 27 FA-elig 20 0.3 0.8 +0.4
Cristian Javier 27 arb 7 0.3 7.4 -6.3
Tayler Scott 32 arb 62 0.2 0.8 +0.0
Ben Gamel↔ NYM 32 FA-elig 20 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Luis Contreras 28 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Forrest Whitley 26 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Joel Kuhnel↔ TBR 29 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Miguel Díaz 29 – 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Dylan Coleman 27 arb 1 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Wander Suero 32 arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Jacob Amaya↔ CHW 25 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Alex Speas 26 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
J.P. France 29 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.8 -1.0
Héctor Neris↔ CHC 35 FA-elig 16 -0.1 2.3 -2.7
Aledmys Díaz↔ OAK 33 FA-elig 2 -0.1 1.1 -1.5
Parker Mushinski 28 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Jon Singleton 32 FA-elig 119 -0.1 0.8 -1.3
Blair Henley 27 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Nick Hernandez 29 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Seth Martinez 29 arb 44 -0.2 0.8 -1.4
Cooper Hummel 29 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.7 -1.4
Brandon Bielak↔ OAK 28 – 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Trey Cabbage 27 pre-arb 45 -0.2 0.7 -1.5
Kaleb Ort 32 arb 22 -0.2 0.7 -1.6
Chas McCormick 29 arb 94 -0.2 2.9 -3.8
Zach Dezenzo 24 – 19 -0.2 0.2 -1.2
Jake Bloss 23 – 3 -0.3 0.2 -1.3
Grae Kessinger 26 pre-arb 23 -0.4 0.7 -2.3
Shay Whitcomb 25 – 20 -0.4 0.2 -1.8
Pedro León 26 pre-arb 7 -0.5 0.1 -2.0
Rafael Montero 33 FA-elig 41 -0.9 11.5 -15.2
José Abreu 37 FA-elig 35 -1.5 19.5 -25.8

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.