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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.6
WAB — wins above budget
+11.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–65 (0.599)
record · made playoffs
-66M
surplus $M (value/$)
54.3
roster fWAR
$197.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Curtis Granderson 30 FA-elig 156 6.9 8.2 +8.5
CC Sabathia 30 FA-elig 33 5.7 24.3 -10.3
Russell Martin 28 arb 125 5.4 4.0 +9.2
Robinson Canó 28 FA-elig 159 5.1 10.0 +2.6
Brett Gardner 27 arb 159 5.0 0.5 +11.8
Mark Teixeira 31 FA-elig 156 4.3 23.1 -12.6
Alex Rodriguez 35 FA-elig 99 4.0 32.0 -22.2
Nick Swisher 30 FA-elig 150 3.4 9.1 -0.8
David Robertson 26 arb 70 2.3 0.5 +5.1
Bartolo Colon 38 FA-elig 29 2.3 0.9 +4.6
Derek Jeter 37 FA-elig 131 2.2 14.7 -9.3
Mariano Rivera 41 FA-elig 64 2.2 14.9 -9.6
Iván Nova 24 pre-arb 28 1.8 0.4 +4.0
Freddy Garcia 34 FA-elig 26 1.6 1.5 +2.5
Andruw Jones 34 FA-elig 77 1.5 1.5 +2.1
Francisco Cervelli 25 arb 43 1.1 0.5 +2.3
Jesus Montero 21 pre-arb 18 0.5 0.4 +0.9
Phil Hughes 25 arb 17 0.5 2.7 -1.4
A.J. Burnett 34 FA-elig 34 0.5 16.5 -15.3
Boone Logan 26 arb 64 0.5 1.2 -0.1
Cory Wade 28 – 40 0.4 – –
Eric Chavez 33 FA-elig 58 0.4 1.5 -0.6
Chris Dickerson 29 – 60 0.2 – –
Joba Chamberlain 25 arb 27 0.2 1.4 -0.9
Rafael Soriano 31 FA-elig 42 0.2 10.0 -9.6
Hector Noesí 24 – 30 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Raul Valdes↔ STL 33 – 6 0.1 – –
Jeff Marquez 26 – 3 0.0 – –
Aaron Laffey↔ SEA 26 arb 11 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Gustavo Molina 29 arb 3 0.0 0.5 -0.4
George Kontos 26 – 7 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Steve Garrison 24 – 1 0.0 – –
Amauri Sanit 31 – 4 -0.0 – –
Sergio Mitre↔ MIL 30 FA-elig 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Andrew Brackman 25 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Buddy Carlyle 33 – 8 -0.0 – –
Dellin Betances 23 – 2 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Kevin Whelan 27 – 2 -0.1 – –
Luis Ayala 33 FA-elig 52 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Brandon Laird 23 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Greg Golson 25 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Lance Pendleton↔ HOU 27 – 11 -0.1 – –
Austin Romine 22 – 9 -0.2 0.0 -0.4
Brian Gordon 32 – 2 -0.2 – –
Scott Proctor↔ ATL 34 FA-elig 8 -0.7 0.0 -1.8
Eduardo Núñez 24 pre-arb 112 -0.8 0.4 -2.3
Ramiro Pena 25 pre-arb 23 -0.9 0.4 -2.6
Jorge Posada 40 FA-elig 115 -0.9 13.1 -15.3

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (79%). 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.