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GM: Allard Baird (since 2001)

2004 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-17.5
WAB — wins above budget
-18.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
58–104 (0.358)
record
-30M
surplus $M (value/$)
9.9
roster fWAR
$40.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joe Randa 34 FA-elig 128 3.3 3.2 +2.3
Carlos Beltrán↔ HOU 27 FA-elig 69 2.4 3.9 +0.1
Zack Greinke 20 – 24 1.8 – –
Darrell May 32 FA-elig 31 1.0 1.8 +0.0
Dennys Reyes 27 FA-elig 40 1.0 0.6 +1.2
Jeremy Affeldt 25 pre-arb 38 1.0 0.3 +1.3
Jimmy Gobble 22 pre-arb 25 0.7 0.3 +1.0
David DeJesus 24 – 96 0.7 – –
Mike Wood 24 – 17 0.7 – –
Mike Sweeney 30 FA-elig 106 0.7 11.0 -9.8
Rudy Seanez↔ MIA 35 – 16 0.6 – –
Andrés Blanco 20 – 19 0.6 – –
Kelly Stinnett 34 FA-elig 20 0.6 0.5 +0.5
Chris George 24 – 10 0.5 – –
Denny Bautista↔ BAL 23 – 5 0.5 – –
Jaime Cerda 25 – 53 0.5 – –
Alberto Castillo 34 – 29 0.4 – –
Benito Santiago 39 FA-elig 49 0.4 2.1 -1.5
Tony Graffanino 32 FA-elig 75 0.4 1.1 -0.4
Jimmy Serrano 28 – 10 0.3 – –
John Buck 23 – 71 0.3 – –
Jason Grimsley↔ BAL 36 FA-elig 32 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Shawn Camp 28 pre-arb 42 0.2 0.3 +0.0
Brian Anderson 32 FA-elig 35 0.2 3.2 -3.0
Calvin Pickering 27 – 35 0.1 – –
Nate Field 28 pre-arb 43 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Scott Sullivan 33 FA-elig 49 0.1 2.1 -1.9
Ryan Bukvich 26 – 9 0.1 – –
Kevin Appier 36 FA-elig 2 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Justin Huisman 25 – 14 0.0 – –
Matt Kinney↔ MIL 27 arb 11 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Rich Thompson 25 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Paul Phillips 27 – 4 0.0 – –
Jorge Vasquez 25 – 2 -0.0 – –
Ruben Gotay 21 – 44 -0.0 – –
Mike MacDougal 27 arb 13 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Donnie Murphy 21 – 7 -0.1 – –
Damian Jackson↔ CHC 30 – 14 -0.1 – –
Mike Tonis 25 – 2 -0.1 – –
Eduardo Villacis 24 – 1 -0.1 – –
Alexis Gomez 25 – 13 -0.1 – –
D.J. Carrasco 27 pre-arb 30 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Adrian Brown 30 – 5 -0.2 – –
José Bautista↔ BAL 23 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Abraham M. Nunez↔ MIA 27 pre-arb 59 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
Angel Berroa 26 arb 134 -0.3 0.4 -0.9
Wilton Guerrero 29 – 24 -0.4 – –
Brandon Berger 29 – 11 -0.4 – –
Mendy López 30 FA-elig 18 -0.4 0.3 -1.1
Juan Gonzalez 34 FA-elig 33 -0.5 4.0 -4.8
Ruben Mateo↔ PIT 26 – 32 -0.5 – –
Curt Leskanic↔ BOS 36 FA-elig 19 -0.6 0.5 -1.4
Byron Gettis 24 – 21 -0.6 – –
Aaron Guiel 31 pre-arb 42 -0.7 0.3 -1.4
Matt Stairs 36 FA-elig 126 -0.8 1.0 -2.4
Ken Harvey 26 arb 120 -0.9 0.3 -1.9
Desi Relaford 30 FA-elig 114 -1.0 0.9 -2.7
Dee Brown 26 – 59 -1.1 – –

58 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 30 of them (52%). 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 KCR
Charlie Leibrandt198316.8
Danny Tartabull198613.9
Joe Randa199812.8
Jeff Montgomery198812.0
Joakim Soria20069.8
José Offerman19958.1
Brad Keller20177.9
Chris Haney19926.9
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Mark Ellis200122.1
David Cone198721.2
Jorge De La Rosa200813.1
Sean Manaea201511.2
Rance Mulliniks198211.1
Bret Saberhagen199110.8
Charlie Leibrandt19899.9
Jon Lieber19939.8
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.