Yankees — Front Office

Player	Age	Service	G	fWAR	Salary $M	Surplus $M
DJ LeMahieu	30	FA-elig	145	5.7	12.0	+6.8
Aaron Judge	27	arb	102	4.1	0.7	+12.9
Gleyber Torres	22	pre-arb	144	3.4	0.6	+10.5
Brett Gardner	35	FA-elig	141	3.4	7.5	+3.6
James Paxton	30	FA-elig	29	3.4	8.6	+2.5
Masahiro Tanaka	30	arb	32	3.2	22.0	-11.5
Gio Urshela	27	–	132	3.1	–	–
Mike Tauchman	28	pre-arb	87	3.0	0.6	+9.4
Aroldis Chapman	31	FA-elig	60	2.1	17.2	-10.4
Gary Sánchez	26	arb	106	2.1	0.7	+6.1
Domingo Germán	26	pre-arb	27	1.9	0.6	+5.5
Cameron Maybin	32	FA-elig	82	1.6	0.5	+4.9
Chad Green	28	arb	54	1.6	0.6	+4.6
Luke Voit	28	pre-arb	118	1.4	0.6	+3.9
Adam Ottavino	33	FA-elig	73	1.3	9.0	-4.8
J.A. Happ	36	FA-elig	32	1.2	17.0	-13.1
Tommy Kahnle	29	arb	72	1.1	1.4	+2.3
Austin Romine	30	FA-elig	73	0.9	1.8	+1.0
Zack Britton	31	FA-elig	66	0.8	13.0	-10.2
Mike Ford	26	–	50	0.8	0.2	+2.5
Edwin Encarnación↔ SEA	36	FA-elig	44	0.8	3.5	-1.0
David Hale	31	pre-arb	20	0.7	0.4	+1.7
Aaron Hicks	29	FA-elig	59	0.5	6.3	-4.6
Luis Severino	25	arb	3	0.5	4.5	-2.8
Giancarlo Stanton	29	FA-elig	18	0.4	26.0	-24.6
Tyler Wade	24	pre-arb	43	0.4	0.6	+0.8
CC Sabathia	38	FA-elig	23	0.4	8.0	-6.8
Thairo Estrada	23	pre-arb	35	0.4	0.6	+0.7
Jonathan Holder	26	arb	34	0.4	0.6	+0.6
Kyle Higashioka	29	pre-arb	18	0.3	0.6	+0.5
Jonathan Loáisiga	24	pre-arb	15	0.1	0.6	-0.3
Ben Heller	27	arb	6	0.1	0.6	-0.3
Jordan Montgomery	26	pre-arb	2	0.1	0.6	-0.4
Dellin Betances	31	FA-elig	1	0.1	7.1	-6.9
Troy Tulowitzki	34	FA-elig	5	0.0	20.0	-19.8
Luis Cessa	27	arb	43	0.0	0.6	-0.4
Michael King	24	–	1	0.0	0.0	+0.1
Ryan Dull↔ OAK	29	arb	3	0.0	0.2	-0.1
Joe Harvey↔ COL	27	pre-arb	9	0.0	0.3	-0.2
Breyvic Valera↔ TOR	27	–	12	-0.0	0.1	-0.1
Cory Gearrin↔ SEA	33	FA-elig	18	-0.0	0.4	-0.4
Adonis Rosa	24	–	1	-0.0	0.0	-0.1
Clint Frazier	24	pre-arb	69	-0.0	0.6	-0.7
Tyler Lyons↔ PIT	31	arb	11	-0.0	0.1	-0.2
Joe Mantiply	28	pre-arb	1	-0.1	0.0	-0.3
Stephen Tarpley	26	pre-arb	21	-0.1	0.6	-0.9
Brady Lail	25	–	1	-0.1	0.0	-0.3
Jake Barrett	27	pre-arb	2	-0.1	0.4	-0.7
Greg Bird	26	arb	10	-0.2	1.2	-1.7
Kendrys Morales↔ OAK	36	FA-elig	19	-0.2	4.3	-5.0
Nestor Cortes	24	–	33	-0.3	0.4	-1.3
Chance Adams	24	pre-arb	13	-0.3	0.6	-1.6
Didi Gregorius	29	FA-elig	82	-0.5	11.8	-13.3
Miguel Andujar	24	pre-arb	12	-0.9	0.6	-3.6

54 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 53 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

Player	Year	WAR for NYY
Rickey Henderson	1984	26.6
David Cone	1995	16.6
Tino Martinez	1995	16.0
Gleyber Torres	2016	15.9
Willie Randolph	1975	14.7
Nick Swisher	2008	14.4
Giancarlo Stanton	2017	11.1
Randy Velarde	1987	10.1

Ones that got away

Player	Year traded	WAR elsewhere
Rickey Henderson	1989	26.8
Doug Drabek	1986	21.4
Fred McGriff	1982	19.7
Greg Gagne	1982	15.6
Austin Jackson	2009	14.8
Jake Westbrook	2000	13.5
Eric Milton	1998	13.4
Nick Johnson	2003	10.5

Yankees NYY

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

History: front-office performance & develop-vs-buy (1985–2024)

Trade ledger (realized WAR, all-time)