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GM: Dayton Moore (since 2007)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-15.0
WAB — wins above budget
-14.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
65–97 (0.401)
record
-35M
surplus $M (value/$)
17.5
roster fWAR
$78.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Zack Greinke 25 arb 33 8.7 3.8 +16.9
David DeJesus 29 FA-elig 144 3.6 3.6 +4.9
Brian Bannister 28 arb 26 2.3 1.7 +3.6
Alberto Callaspo 26 arb 155 1.9 0.4 +4.1
Billy Butler 23 pre-arb 159 1.7 0.4 +3.7
Miguel Olivo 30 FA-elig 114 1.7 2.7 +1.2
Joakim Soria 25 pre-arb 47 1.6 1.0 +2.8
Coco Crisp 29 FA-elig 49 1.3 6.1 -3.0
Robinson Tejeda 27 arb 35 1.2 0.4 +2.4
Gil Meche 30 FA-elig 23 1.0 11.4 -9.0
Luke Hochevar 25 pre-arb 25 0.9 1.3 +0.8
Kyle Farnsworth 33 FA-elig 41 0.6 4.2 -2.9
Brayan Peña 27 arb 64 0.5 0.4 +0.7
Kyle Davies 25 arb 22 0.4 1.3 -0.3
Alex Gordon 25 pre-arb 49 0.4 0.5 +0.5
Sidney Ponson 32 – 14 0.4 – –
Bruce Chen 32 – 17 0.1 – –
Mitch Maier 27 arb 127 0.1 0.4 -0.2
John Buck 28 arb 59 0.1 2.9 -2.7
Carlos Rosa 24 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Dusty Hughes 27 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Lenny DiNardo 29 – 5 -0.1 – –
Juan Cruz 30 FA-elig 46 -0.1 2.2 -2.4
Horacio Ramirez 29 FA-elig 19 -0.1 1.8 -2.0
Willie Bloomquist 31 FA-elig 125 -0.1 1.4 -1.6
Ryan Freel↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 18 -0.1 1.8 -2.0
Doug Waechter 28 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
John Bale 35 FA-elig 43 -0.2 1.2 -1.6
Yasuhiko Yabuta 36 – 12 -0.2 – –
Victor Marte 28 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Anthony Lerew 26 arb 3 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Roman Colon 29 arb 43 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Josh Anderson↔ DET 26 pre-arb 44 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Jamey Wright 34 – 65 -0.3 – –
Tug Hulett 26 – 15 -0.4 – –
Ron Mahay↔ MIN 38 FA-elig 41 -0.4 2.9 -3.8
Mark Teahen 27 arb 144 -0.5 3.6 -4.7
Luis Hernandez 25 pre-arb 37 -0.5 0.4 -1.6
Mike Jacobs 28 arb 128 -0.9 3.3 -5.4
Mike Aviles 28 pre-arb 36 -0.9 0.4 -2.6
Tony Pena Jr. 28 arb 40 -1.1 0.4 -3.0
Yuniesky Betancourt↔ SEA 27 arb 71 -1.6 1.2 -5.0
Jose Guillen 33 FA-elig 81 -2.2 12.0 -17.3

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (86%). 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.