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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.4
WAB — wins above budget
+13.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
91–71 (0.562)
record · made playoffs
-10M
surplus $M (value/$)
52.4
roster fWAR
$186.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Aaron Judge 25 pre-arb 155 8.7 0.5 +28.8
Luis Severino 23 pre-arb 31 5.6 0.6 +18.4
Gary Sánchez 24 pre-arb 122 4.1 0.6 +13.3
Brett Gardner 33 FA-elig 151 3.8 12.5 +0.4
Starlin Castro 27 FA-elig 112 2.8 9.9 -0.5
Aaron Hicks 27 arb 88 2.6 1.4 +7.5
Jordan Montgomery 24 pre-arb 29 2.6 0.5 +8.3
Didi Gregorius 27 arb 136 2.6 5.1 +3.6
Masahiro Tanaka 28 arb 30 2.6 22.0 -13.4
Chad Green 26 pre-arb 40 2.4 0.4 +7.7
Chase Headley 33 FA-elig 147 1.9 13.0 -6.6
CC Sabathia 36 FA-elig 27 1.8 25.0 -19.1
Todd Frazier↔ CHW 31 FA-elig 66 1.7 5.4 +0.4
Jacoby Ellsbury 33 FA-elig 112 1.5 21.1 -16.0
Aroldis Chapman 29 FA-elig 52 1.5 17.2 -12.1
Dellin Betances 29 FA-elig 66 1.2 3.0 +1.0
Adam Warren 29 arb 46 1.2 2.3 +1.7
David Robertson↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 30 1.1 5.9 -2.2
Ronald Torreyes 24 pre-arb 108 1.1 0.6 +3.0
Michael Pineda 28 FA-elig 17 1.0 7.4 -3.9
Tommy Kahnle↔ CHW 27 arb 32 0.7 0.2 +2.2
Sonny Gray↔ OAK 27 arb 11 0.5 1.5 +0.3
Jonathan Holder 24 pre-arb 37 0.5 0.5 +1.1
Jaime García↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 8 0.3 3.6 -2.5
Miguel Andujar 22 – 5 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Ben Heller 25 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Bryan Mitchell 26 arb 20 0.2 0.6 +0.1
Giovanny Gallegos 25 – 16 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Clint Frazier 22 – 39 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Garrett Cooper 26 – 13 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Domingo Germán 24 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Chasen Shreve 26 arb 44 0.1 0.6 -0.1
Erik Kratz 37 arb 4 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Ji Man Choi 26 – 6 0.1 – –
Dustin Fowler 22 – 1 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Matt Holliday 37 FA-elig 105 -0.0 13.0 -13.1
Tommy Layne 32 arb 19 -0.0 1.1 -1.2
Tyler Austin 25 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Caleb Smith 25 – 9 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Mason Williams 25 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Tyler Webb↔ MIL 26 – 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Ronald Herrera 22 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Tyler Clippard↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 40 -0.1 3.7 -4.0
Luis Cessa 25 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Pete Kozma↔ TEX 29 FA-elig 11 -0.2 0.2 -1.0
Kyle Higashioka 27 – 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Chris Carter 30 FA-elig 62 -0.3 3.5 -4.4
Austin Romine 28 FA-elig 80 -0.3 0.8 -1.8
Greg Bird 24 pre-arb 48 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Rob Refsnyder↔ TOR 26 – 20 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Tyler Wade 22 – 30 -0.7 0.2 -2.5

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 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 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.