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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+15.4
WAB — wins above budget
+16.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
100–62 (0.617)
record · made playoffs
+21M
surplus $M (value/$)
53.2
roster fWAR
$159.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Luis Severino 24 arb 32 5.3 0.6 +17.6
Aaron Judge 26 pre-arb 112 5.0 0.6 +16.4
Aaron Hicks 28 arb 137 4.0 2.8 +10.8
Miguel Andujar 23 pre-arb 149 3.9 0.5 +12.6
Giancarlo Stanton 28 FA-elig 158 3.8 25.0 -12.1
Didi Gregorius 28 FA-elig 134 3.3 8.2 +2.9
Gleyber Torres 21 pre-arb 123 2.5 0.5 +7.9
Masahiro Tanaka 29 arb 27 2.4 22.0 -13.9
CC Sabathia 37 FA-elig 29 2.3 10.0 -2.3
Austin Romine 29 FA-elig 77 2.0 1.1 +5.8
Lance Lynn↔ MIN 31 FA-elig 11 2.0 4.3 +2.5
Brett Gardner 34 FA-elig 140 1.9 11.5 -4.9
Aroldis Chapman 30 FA-elig 55 1.8 17.2 -11.0
Dellin Betances 30 FA-elig 66 1.7 5.1 +0.6
Chad Green 27 pre-arb 63 1.7 0.6 +5.1
Luke Voit↔ STL 27 pre-arb 39 1.5 0.1 +5.1
Sonny Gray 28 arb 30 1.5 6.5 -1.4
David Robertson 33 FA-elig 69 1.4 13.0 -8.1
Jonathan Holder 25 pre-arb 60 1.2 0.6 +3.6
Gary Sánchez 25 arb 89 1.0 0.6 +2.9
J.A. Happ↔ TOR 35 FA-elig 11 1.0 4.6 -1.3
Domingo Germán 25 pre-arb 21 0.8 0.3 +2.5
Andrew McCutchen↔ SFG 31 FA-elig 25 0.7 2.4 -0.0
Jordan Montgomery 25 pre-arb 6 0.4 0.6 +0.9
Jonathan Loáisiga 23 pre-arb 9 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Luis Cessa 26 pre-arb 16 0.4 0.3 +1.0
Adam Warren↔ SEA 30 FA-elig 24 0.3 1.7 -0.5
Tyler Austin↔ MIN 26 – 34 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Kyle Higashioka 28 pre-arb 29 0.2 0.3 +0.4
Shane Robinson 33 arb 25 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Stephen Tarpley 25 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Zack Britton↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 25 0.1 7.3 -7.0
George Kontos↔ CLE 33 FA-elig 1 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Tommy Kahnle 28 arb 24 0.1 1.3 -1.1
Jace Peterson↔ BAL 28 – 3 0.0 0.0 +0.0
David Hale↔ MIN 30 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Giovanny Gallegos↔ STL 26 – 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Billy McKinney↔ TOR 23 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Adeiny Hechavarría↔ PIT 29 FA-elig 18 -0.0 1.1 -1.3
Ronald Torreyes 25 arb 41 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Greg Bird 25 arb 82 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Justus Sheffield 22 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Clint Frazier 23 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
A.J. Cole↔ WSN 26 arb 28 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Tyler Wade 23 pre-arb 36 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Chance Adams 23 – 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Chasen Shreve↔ STL 27 arb 40 -0.2 0.6 -1.3
Brandon Drury↔ TOR 25 arb 18 -0.3 0.4 -1.3
Neil Walker 32 FA-elig 113 -0.6 4.0 -5.9

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.