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Royals KCR

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GM: Dayton Moore (since 2007)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.0
WAB — wins above budget
+1.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · World Series champions
-10M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.6
roster fWAR
$122.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Lorenzo Cain 29 arb 140 6.1 2.7 +16.5
Mike Moustakas 26 arb 147 3.8 2.6 +9.5
Eric Hosmer 25 arb 158 3.5 5.7 +5.3
Alex Gordon 31 FA-elig 104 2.7 12.5 -3.9
Yordano Ventura 24 pre-arb 28 2.7 0.9 +7.5
Edinson Volquez 31 FA-elig 34 2.6 7.5 +0.7
Kendrys Morales 32 FA-elig 158 2.1 6.5 +0.1
Wade Davis 29 FA-elig 69 2.0 7.0 -0.6
Alcides Escobar 28 FA-elig 148 1.5 3.0 +1.8
Ben Zobrist↔ OAK 34 FA-elig 59 1.5 3.5 +1.1
Jarrod Dyson 30 arb 90 1.4 1.2 +3.1
Danny Duffy 26 arb 30 1.3 2.4 +1.5
Chris Young 36 FA-elig 34 1.1 0.7 +2.7
Johnny Cueto↔ CIN 29 FA-elig 13 1.1 4.1 -0.7
Ryan Madson 34 FA-elig 68 0.9 0.8 +2.0
Greg Holland 29 arb 48 0.8 8.2 -5.8
Salvador Perez 25 arb 142 0.8 1.8 +0.7
Paulo Orlando 29 – 86 0.7 0.4 +1.9
Kelvin Herrera 25 arb 72 0.6 1.6 +0.4
Kris Medlen 29 FA-elig 15 0.5 2.0 -0.4
Joe Blanton↔ PIT 34 – 15 0.5 0.3 +1.2
Jason Vargas 32 FA-elig 9 0.4 8.5 -7.1
Franklin Morales 29 FA-elig 67 0.4 1.9 -0.6
Christian Colón 26 pre-arb 43 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Cheslor Cuthbert 22 – 19 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Yohan Pino 31 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Luke Hochevar 31 FA-elig 50 0.2 4.0 -3.5
Aaron Brooks↔ OAK 25 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Louis Coleman 29 arb 4 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Scott Alexander 25 – 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jason Frasor↔ ATL 37 FA-elig 26 -0.0 1.0 -1.0
Joba Chamberlain↔ DET 29 FA-elig 6 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Terrance Gore 24 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Orlando Calixte 23 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Michael Mariot 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Francisco Peña 25 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Erik Kratz↔ PHI 35 arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Brandon Finnegan↔ CIN 22 – 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Alex Rios 34 FA-elig 105 -0.2 11.0 -11.6
Dusty Coleman 28 – 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Jonny Gomes↔ ATL 34 FA-elig 12 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Drew Butera↔ ANA 31 arb 45 -0.4 0.8 -2.0
Miguel Almonte 22 pre-arb 9 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Jeremy Guthrie 36 FA-elig 30 -0.8 9.0 -11.5
Omar Infante 33 FA-elig 124 -1.3 7.5 -11.7

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.