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Royals KCR

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GM: Dayton Moore (since 2007)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.8 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+1.2 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
26–34 (0.433)
record
+7M
surplus $M (value/$)
11.0
roster fWAR
$74.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Salvador Perez 30 FA-elig 37 2.0 14.2 +0.6
Whit Merrifield 31 arb 60 1.7 5.0 +7.1
Adalberto Mondesi 24 pre-arb 59 1.3 0.2 +9.4
Brad Keller 24 pre-arb 9 1.3 0.2 +9.1
Maikel Franco 27 FA-elig 60 1.1 3.0 +4.8
Brady Singer 23 – 12 1.0 0.2 +7.3
Greg Holland 34 FA-elig 28 0.8 0.1 +5.5
Hunter Dozier 28 pre-arb 44 0.7 0.2 +5.0
Danny Duffy 31 FA-elig 12 0.6 15.2 -11.1
Kris Bubic 22 – 10 0.5 0.2 +3.5
Jesse Hahn 30 arb 18 0.5 0.3 +3.1
Jorge Soler 28 FA-elig 43 0.4 7.3 -4.0
Kyle Zimmer 28 pre-arb 16 0.4 0.2 +3.1
Cam Gallagher 27 pre-arb 25 0.4 0.2 +2.6
Scott Barlow 27 pre-arb 32 0.4 0.2 +2.6
Josh Staumont 26 pre-arb 26 0.4 0.2 +2.5
Nicky Lopez 25 pre-arb 56 0.2 0.2 +1.0
Ryan McBroom 28 pre-arb 36 0.2 0.2 +1.0
Trevor Rosenthal↔ SDP 30 FA-elig 14 0.2 0.2 +0.9
Franchy Cordero 25 pre-arb 16 0.1 0.2 +0.5
Glenn Sparkman 28 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.2 +0.5
Alex Gordon 36 FA-elig 50 0.1 4.0 -3.3
Edward Olivares↔ SDP 24 – 18 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Chance Adams 25 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Foster Griffin 24 – 1 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Scott Blewett 24 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Óscar Hernández 26 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jake Newberry 25 pre-arb 20 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Brett Phillips↔ TBR 26 – 18 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Jorge López↔ BAL 27 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Kelvin Gutiérrez 25 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Mike Montgomery 30 arb 3 -0.0 3.1 -3.2
Nick Heath 26 – 15 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Gabe Speier 25 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.2 -0.5
Kevin McCarthy 28 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Richard Lovelady 24 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Randy Rosario 26 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -1.2
Carlos Hernández 23 – 5 -0.2 0.1 -1.2
Jakob Junis 27 – 8 -0.2 – –
Meibrys Viloria 23 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.1 -1.4
Matt Reynolds 29 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -1.5
Tyler Zuber 25 – 23 -0.2 0.2 -1.9
Ronald Bolaños 23 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -1.8
Erick Mejia 25 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.1 -2.0
Bubba Starling 27 pre-arb 35 -0.3 0.2 -2.6
Ryan O'Hearn 26 pre-arb 42 -0.3 0.2 -2.7
Matt Harvey 31 FA-elig 7 -0.4 0.1 -3.4
Ian Kennedy 35 FA-elig 15 -0.6 16.5 -20.8

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (98%). 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.