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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.0
WAB — wins above budget
+14.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
99–63 (0.611)
record · made playoffs
-46M
surplus $M (value/$)
54.9
roster fWAR
$246.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Aaron Judge 30 FA-elig 157 11.1 19.0 +21.4
Jose Trevino 29 pre-arb 115 3.8 0.7 +13.2
Nestor Cortes 27 pre-arb 28 3.7 0.7 +12.9
Gerrit Cole 31 FA-elig 33 3.4 36.0 -23.5
DJ LeMahieu 33 FA-elig 125 3.1 15.0 -3.8
Gleyber Torres 25 arb 140 2.6 6.2 +3.3
Anthony Rizzo 32 FA-elig 130 2.5 16.0 -7.0
Jameson Taillon 30 FA-elig 32 2.4 5.8 +3.0
Matt Carpenter 36 FA-elig 47 2.4 1.5 +7.2
Michael King 27 pre-arb 34 1.7 0.7 +5.5
Kyle Higashioka 32 arb 83 1.6 0.9 +4.9
Josh Donaldson 36 FA-elig 132 1.6 21.8 -16.0
Luis Severino 28 FA-elig 19 1.5 11.5 -6.1
Isiah Kiner-Falefa 27 arb 142 1.5 4.7 +0.6
Jordan Montgomery↔ STL 29 arb 21 1.4 3.9 +1.3
Oswaldo Cabrera 23 – 44 1.3 0.2 +4.5
Clay Holmes 29 arb 62 1.2 1.1 +3.1
Giancarlo Stanton 32 FA-elig 110 1.1 29.0 -24.9
Wandy Peralta 30 FA-elig 56 1.0 2.1 +1.5
Lucas Luetge 35 FA-elig 50 0.9 0.9 +2.4
Aaron Hicks 32 FA-elig 130 0.9 10.8 -7.6
Domingo Germán 29 arb 15 0.7 1.8 +0.9
Andrew Benintendi↔ KCR 27 FA-elig 33 0.6 2.2 -0.0
Oswald Peraza 22 – 18 0.6 0.1 +2.0
Clarke Schmidt 26 pre-arb 29 0.5 0.5 +1.4
Ron Marinaccio 26 – 40 0.5 0.6 +1.0
Jonathan Loáisiga 27 arb 50 0.4 1.6 -0.0
JP Sears↔ OAK 26 – 7 0.4 0.1 +1.4
Marwin Gonzalez 33 FA-elig 86 0.3 1.1 +0.1
Chad Green 31 FA-elig 14 0.3 4.0 -2.8
Albert Abreu↔ KCR 26 pre-arb 22 0.3 0.5 +0.6
Lou Trivino↔ OAK 30 arb 25 0.2 1.2 -0.4
Luis Gil 24 pre-arb 1 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Scott Effross↔ CHC 28 pre-arb 13 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Frankie Montas↔ OAK 29 FA-elig 8 0.1 1.5 -0.9
Chi Chi González↔ MIL 30 FA-elig 1 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Miguel Castro 27 arb 34 0.1 2.6 -2.3
Manny Banuelos↔ PIT 31 – 4 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Rob Brantly 32 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Jacob Barnes↔ DET 32 FA-elig 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Ryan Weber 31 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Harrison Bader↔ STL 28 arb 14 0.0 0.8 -0.8
Luke Bard↔ TBR 31 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
David McKay↔ OAK 27 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Greg Weissert 27 – 12 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Tim Locastro 29 arb 38 -0.0 0.9 -1.1
Shane Greene↔ LAD 33 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Anthony Banda↔ PIT 28 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Ronald Guzmán 27 arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Joey Gallo↔ LAD 28 FA-elig 82 -0.1 6.7 -7.2
Aroldis Chapman 34 FA-elig 43 -0.2 16.0 -16.7
Miguel Andujar↔ PIT 27 arb 27 -0.2 1.0 -1.7
Zack Britton 34 FA-elig 3 -0.2 14.0 -14.7
Estevan Florial 24 pre-arb 17 -0.2 0.1 -1.0

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.