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Royals KCR

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GM: Dayton Moore (since 2007)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.3
WAB — wins above budget
+5.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
+17M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.5
roster fWAR
$80.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Alex Gordon 29 FA-elig 156 4.4 9.0 +2.8
James Shields 31 FA-elig 34 4.1 9.0 +2.1
Salvador Perez 23 pre-arb 138 3.2 1.0 +7.6
Eric Hosmer 23 pre-arb 159 3.1 0.5 +7.9
Greg Holland 27 arb 68 3.1 0.5 +7.8
Ervin Santana 30 FA-elig 32 2.6 13.0 -6.1
Lorenzo Cain 27 arb 115 2.0 0.5 +4.8
David Lough 27 pre-arb 96 1.8 0.5 +4.2
Wade Davis 27 arb 31 1.4 2.8 +1.0
Jarrod Dyson 28 arb 87 1.4 0.5 +3.3
Bruce Chen 36 FA-elig 34 1.3 4.5 -0.9
Luke Hochevar 29 FA-elig 58 1.1 4.6 -1.6
Emilio Bonifácio↔ TOR 28 FA-elig 42 1.1 0.8 +2.1
Billy Butler 27 FA-elig 162 1.0 8.0 -5.2
Alcides Escobar 26 arb 158 0.9 3.0 -0.5
Louis Coleman 27 pre-arb 27 0.7 0.3 +1.6
Jeremy Guthrie 34 FA-elig 33 0.7 5.0 -3.2
Tim Collins 23 pre-arb 66 0.7 0.5 +1.2
Justin Maxwell↔ HOU 29 FA-elig 35 0.7 0.2 +1.5
Danny Duffy 24 pre-arb 5 0.5 0.5 +1.0
Kelvin Herrera 23 pre-arb 59 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Will Smith 23 pre-arb 19 0.4 0.2 +1.0
Mike Moustakas 24 pre-arb 136 0.4 0.5 +0.5
Miguel Tejada 39 FA-elig 53 0.3 1.1 -0.4
Luis Mendoza 29 FA-elig 22 0.3 0.5 +0.1
Francisley Bueno 32 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Johnny Giavotella 25 pre-arb 14 0.2 0.1 +0.3
George Kottaras 30 arb 46 0.1 1.0 -0.6
Juan Gutierrez↔ ANA 29 FA-elig 25 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Donnie Joseph 25 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Adam Moore 29 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Chris Dwyer 25 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Everett Teaford 29 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Irving Falu 30 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Pedro Ciriaco↔ BOS 27 arb 5 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Yordano Ventura 22 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Brett Hayes 29 arb 5 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Carlos Pena↔ HOU 35 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Elliot Johnson↔ ATL 29 arb 79 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Aaron Crow 26 pre-arb 57 -0.2 1.3 -1.9
Chris Getz 29 arb 78 -0.3 1.1 -1.9
Jamey Carroll↔ MIN 39 FA-elig 14 -0.4 0.7 -1.7
Jeff Francoeur↔ SFG 29 FA-elig 59 -0.7 5.5 -7.4

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.