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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.6
WAB — wins above budget
-2.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
87–75 (0.537)
record · made playoffs
-95M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.1
roster fWAR
$218.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Michael Pineda 26 arb 27 3.5 2.1 +9.0
Nathan Eovaldi 25 arb 27 3.1 3.3 +6.6
Didi Gregorius 25 arb 155 3.1 0.6 +9.2
Mark Teixeira 35 FA-elig 111 2.9 23.1 -14.1
Brian McCann 31 FA-elig 135 2.8 17.0 -8.1
Alex Rodriguez 39 FA-elig 151 2.7 22.0 -13.5
Brett Gardner 31 FA-elig 151 2.5 12.5 -4.7
Dellin Betances 27 arb 74 2.4 0.5 +7.2
Masahiro Tanaka 26 pre-arb 24 2.2 22.0 -15.0
Adam Warren 27 arb 43 2.1 0.6 +6.2
Andrew Miller 30 FA-elig 60 2.0 9.0 -2.6
Carlos Beltrán 38 FA-elig 133 1.8 15.0 -9.5
Chase Headley 31 FA-elig 156 1.6 13.0 -8.0
Justin Wilson 27 arb 74 1.5 0.6 +4.2
CC Sabathia 34 FA-elig 29 1.2 23.0 -19.4
Greg Bird 22 – 46 1.1 0.1 +3.4
Jacoby Ellsbury 31 FA-elig 111 1.1 21.1 -17.7
Chris Young 31 FA-elig 140 0.8 2.5 +0.0
John Ryan Murphy 24 pre-arb 67 0.8 0.5 +1.9
Luis Severino 21 – 11 0.7 0.2 +1.9
Slade Heathcott 24 pre-arb 17 0.5 0.3 +1.4
Iván Nova 28 arb 17 0.5 3.3 -1.8
Dustin Ackley↔ SEA 27 arb 23 0.4 0.6 +0.6
Stephen Drew 32 FA-elig 131 0.4 5.0 -3.9
Mason Williams 23 – 8 0.2 0.3 +0.4
Rob Refsnyder 24 – 16 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Chase Whitley 26 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Chris Martin 29 pre-arb 24 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Nick Rumbelow 23 – 17 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Rico Noel 26 pre-arb 15 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Branden Pinder 26 – 25 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Kyle Davies 31 arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.4
James Pazos 24 – 11 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Ramón Flores 23 – 12 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Diego Moreno 27 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Cole Figueroa 28 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Nick Goody 23 – 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Matt Tracy 26 – 1 -0.0 – –
Sergio Santos↔ LAD 31 arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
José Ramírez↔ SEA 25 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Bryan Mitchell 24 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Gary Sánchez 22 – 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Esmil Rogers 29 FA-elig 18 -0.1 1.5 -1.6
Danny Burawa↔ ATL 26 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Jose De Paula 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
Austin Romine 26 arb 1 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Andrew Bailey 31 arb 10 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Chris Capuano 36 FA-elig 22 -0.2 5.0 -5.5
David Carpenter↔ WSN 29 arb 22 -0.2 1.0 -1.5
Chasen Shreve 24 pre-arb 59 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Caleb Cotham 27 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Brendan Ryan 33 FA-elig 47 -0.2 2.0 -2.7
Jacob Lindgren 22 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Gregorio Petit 30 FA-elig 20 -0.5 0.5 -2.0
José Pirela 25 pre-arb 37 -0.6 0.5 -2.3
Garrett Jones 34 FA-elig 57 -0.6 5.0 -6.8

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 54 of them (96%). 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
Tino Martinez199516.0
Gleyber Torres201615.9
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.