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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.4 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-1.5 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
33–27 (0.550)
record · made playoffs
-103M
surplus $M (value/$)
14.8
roster fWAR
$210.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
DJ LeMahieu 31 FA-elig 50 2.3 12.0 +4.9
Gerrit Cole 29 FA-elig 12 1.4 36.0 -25.7
Luke Voit 29 pre-arb 56 1.4 0.2 +10.0
Clint Frazier 25 pre-arb 39 1.3 0.2 +9.7
Gio Urshela 28 arb 43 1.2 2.5 +6.0
Aaron Judge 28 arb 28 0.9 8.5 -1.8
Jordan Montgomery 27 arb 10 0.9 0.8 +5.6
Aaron Hicks 30 FA-elig 54 0.9 10.8 -4.4
Masahiro Tanaka 31 FA-elig 10 0.8 23.0 -17.2
Deivi García 21 – 6 0.8 0.1 +5.5
J.A. Happ 37 FA-elig 9 0.6 17.0 -12.8
Gleyber Torres 23 pre-arb 42 0.6 0.3 +3.9
Zack Britton 32 FA-elig 20 0.5 13.0 -9.3
Giancarlo Stanton 30 FA-elig 23 0.5 26.0 -22.7
Tyler Wade 25 pre-arb 52 0.4 0.2 +3.0
Brett Gardner 36 FA-elig 49 0.4 10.0 -6.9
Kyle Higashioka 30 pre-arb 16 0.4 0.2 +2.7
James Paxton 31 FA-elig 5 0.3 12.5 -10.3
Aroldis Chapman 32 FA-elig 13 0.3 16.0 -13.9
Adam Ottavino 34 FA-elig 24 0.2 9.0 -7.3
Luis Cessa 28 arb 16 0.2 0.9 +0.6
Chad Green 29 arb 22 0.2 1.3 +0.2
Erik Kratz 40 FA-elig 18 0.2 0.1 +1.2
Mike Tauchman 29 pre-arb 43 0.1 0.2 +0.6
Jonathan Loáisiga 25 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.2 +0.6
David Hale↔ PHI 32 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.8
Tommy Kahnle 30 FA-elig 1 0.1 2.6 -2.0
Clarke Schmidt 24 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Michael King 25 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Estevan Florial 22 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Jordy Mercer↔ DET 33 FA-elig 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tyler Lyons 32 arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Miguel Yajure 22 – 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Jonathan Holder 27 arb 19 -0.1 0.8 -1.4
Luis Avilán 30 FA-elig 10 -0.1 0.1 -0.9
Ben Heller 28 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -1.0
Brooks Kriske 26 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -1.0
Nick Nelson 24 – 11 -0.2 0.2 -1.4
Albert Abreu 24 – 2 -0.2 0.0 -1.5
Gary Sánchez 27 arb 49 -0.2 5.0 -6.5
Thairo Estrada 24 pre-arb 26 -0.3 0.2 -2.4
Miguel Andujar 25 pre-arb 21 -0.4 0.1 -2.9
Mike Ford 27 pre-arb 29 -0.7 0.2 -5.1

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.