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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2010 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.7
WAB — wins above budget
+2.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · made playoffs
-105M
surplus $M (value/$)
47.9
roster fWAR
$215.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Robinson Canó 27 arb 160 6.4 9.0 +5.8
Brett Gardner 26 pre-arb 150 6.1 0.5 +13.7
CC Sabathia 29 FA-elig 34 5.5 24.3 -11.6
Nick Swisher 29 FA-elig 150 4.4 6.8 +3.2
Alex Rodriguez 34 FA-elig 137 4.0 33.0 -23.9
Curtis Granderson 29 FA-elig 136 3.9 5.5 +3.6
Mark Teixeira 30 FA-elig 158 3.5 20.6 -12.7
Phil Hughes 24 arb 31 3.0 0.4 +6.5
Andy Pettitte 38 FA-elig 21 2.7 11.8 -5.6
Derek Jeter 36 FA-elig 157 2.3 22.6 -17.3
Mariano Rivera 40 FA-elig 61 1.8 15.0 -10.9
Francisco Cervelli 24 pre-arb 93 1.7 0.4 +3.5
A.J. Burnett 33 FA-elig 33 1.3 16.5 -13.4
Joba Chamberlain 24 arb 73 1.3 0.5 +2.6
David Robertson 25 pre-arb 64 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Marcus Thames 33 FA-elig 82 0.7 0.9 +0.7
Iván Nova 23 – 10 0.4 – –
Kerry Wood↔ CLE 33 FA-elig 24 0.4 5.4 -4.4
Boone Logan 25 – 51 0.3 – –
Austin Kearns↔ CLE 30 FA-elig 36 0.2 0.2 +0.2
Javier Vazquez 33 FA-elig 31 0.2 11.5 -11.1
Greg Golson 24 – 24 0.1 – –
Chad Moeller 35 – 9 0.1 – –
Juan Miranda 27 pre-arb 33 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Sergio Mitre 29 FA-elig 27 0.1 0.8 -0.7
Romulo Sanchez 26 – 2 0.0 – –
Nick Johnson 31 FA-elig 24 0.0 5.5 -5.4
Royce Ring 29 – 5 0.0 – –
Kevin Russo 25 – 31 0.0 – –
Mark Melancon↔ HOU 25 – 2 -0.0 – –
Alfredo Aceves 27 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Lance Berkman↔ HOU 34 FA-elig 37 -0.1 4.4 -4.5
Jonathan Albaladejo 27 – 10 -0.1 – –
Damaso Marte 35 FA-elig 30 -0.1 4.0 -4.2
Chad Huffman 25 – 9 -0.1 – –
Chan Ho Park↔ PIT 37 FA-elig 27 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Eduardo Núñez 23 – 30 -0.2 – –
Ramiro Pena 24 pre-arb 85 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Dustin Moseley 28 – 16 -0.2 – –
Randy Winn↔ STL 36 FA-elig 29 -0.4 0.3 -1.2
Colin Curtis 25 – 31 -0.5 – –
Jorge Posada 39 FA-elig 120 -0.5 13.1 -14.2
Chad Gaudin↔ OAK 27 FA-elig 30 -0.7 0.5 -2.2

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 30 of them (70%). 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 NYY
Rickey Henderson198426.6
David Cone199516.6
Gleyber Torres201615.9
Tino Martinez199515.8
Willie Randolph197514.7
Nick Swisher200814.4
Giancarlo Stanton201711.1
Randy Velarde198710.1
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Rickey Henderson198926.8
Doug Drabek198621.4
Fred McGriff198219.7
Greg Gagne198215.6
Austin Jackson200914.8
Jake Westbrook200013.5
Eric Milton199813.4
Nick Johnson200310.5
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.