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GM: Dayton Moore (since 2007)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-17.9
WAB — wins above budget
-13.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
59–103 (0.364)
record
-37M
surplus $M (value/$)
15.5
roster fWAR
$87.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jorge Soler 27 arb 162 3.5 4.7 +6.8
Whit Merrifield 30 arb 162 3.3 1.0 +9.7
Hunter Dozier 27 arb 139 3.2 0.6 +9.8
Adalberto Mondesi 23 arb 102 2.6 0.6 +7.9
Brad Keller 23 pre-arb 28 2.3 0.6 +6.8
Jakob Junis 26 pre-arb 31 1.5 0.6 +4.4
Ian Kennedy 34 FA-elig 63 1.5 16.5 -11.7
Danny Duffy 30 FA-elig 23 1.4 15.2 -10.8
Scott Barlow 26 pre-arb 61 1.1 0.7 +3.1
Homer Bailey↔ OAK 33 FA-elig 18 1.1 0.2 +3.6
Jake Diekman↔ OAK 32 FA-elig 48 0.8 1.4 +1.2
Cam Gallagher 26 pre-arb 45 0.6 0.6 +1.5
Alex Gordon 35 FA-elig 150 0.6 20.0 -18.1
Kevin McCarthy 27 arb 56 0.5 0.6 +1.2
Tim Hill 29 pre-arb 46 0.5 0.6 +1.1
Martín Maldonado↔ CHC 32 FA-elig 74 0.5 1.8 -0.1
Terrance Gore 28 arb 37 0.5 0.7 +1.0
Mike Montgomery↔ CHC 29 arb 13 0.3 1.0 +0.1
Brett Phillips 25 pre-arb 30 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Randy Rosario↔ CHC 25 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Richard Lovelady 23 – 25 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Jorge Bonifacio 26 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Brian Flynn 29 FA-elig 11 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Kelvin Gutiérrez 24 – 20 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Erick Mejia 24 – 9 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Brad Boxberger 31 FA-elig 29 0.0 2.2 -2.2
Chris Ellis 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Ryan McBroom 27 – 23 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Ben Lively 27 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Jesse Hahn 29 arb 6 -0.1 0.8 -1.1
Gabe Speier 24 – 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Kyle Zimmer 27 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Nick Dini 25 – 20 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Josh Staumont 25 – 16 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Jorge López 26 arb 39 -0.3 0.6 -1.4
Eric Skoglund 26 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.6 -1.4
Nicky Lopez 24 – 103 -0.3 0.4 -1.3
Billy Hamilton↔ ATL 28 FA-elig 93 -0.3 3.3 -4.4
Jake Newberry 24 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.3 -1.4
Frank Schwindel 27 pre-arb 6 -0.4 0.6 -1.9
Jacob Barnes↔ MIL 29 arb 15 -0.4 0.3 -1.6
Wily Peralta 30 FA-elig 42 -0.4 2.2 -3.7
Heath Fillmyer 25 pre-arb 12 -0.4 0.1 -1.6
Glenn Sparkman 27 pre-arb 31 -0.5 0.5 -2.1
Bubba Starling 26 pre-arb 56 -0.7 0.2 -2.5
Cheslor Cuthbert 26 arb 87 -0.7 0.8 -3.3
Meibrys Viloria 22 pre-arb 42 -0.9 0.2 -3.0
Humberto Arteaga 25 – 41 -0.9 0.3 -3.2
Ryan O'Hearn 25 pre-arb 105 -1.1 0.6 -4.0
Lucas Duda 33 FA-elig 39 -1.1 1.2 -4.9
Chris Owings↔ BOS 27 FA-elig 41 -1.1 1.8 -5.5

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.