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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.7
WAB — wins above budget
-12.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–80 (0.506)
record
-148M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.2
roster fWAR
$259.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Gerrit Cole 32 FA-elig 33 5.3 36.0 -15.0
Aaron Judge 31 FA-elig 106 4.7 40.0 -21.2
Gleyber Torres 26 arb 158 3.7 9.9 +4.5
Michael King 28 arb 49 2.2 1.3 +7.6
Anthony Volpe 22 pre-arb 159 1.9 0.7 +7.0
Clarke Schmidt 27 arb 33 1.9 0.7 +6.7
Clay Holmes 30 arb 66 1.6 3.3 +2.9
Kyle Higashioka 33 FA-elig 92 1.4 1.5 +3.9
DJ LeMahieu 34 FA-elig 136 1.3 15.0 -9.9
Ian Hamilton 28 pre-arb 39 1.1 0.7 +3.8
Harrison Bader↔ CIN 29 – 84 1.1 3.4 +0.9
Domingo Germán 30 FA-elig 20 0.9 2.6 +1.1
Anthony Rizzo 33 FA-elig 99 0.9 17.0 -13.6
Nestor Cortes 28 arb 12 0.8 3.2 +0.1
Jose Trevino 30 arb 55 0.7 2.4 +0.6
Nick Ramirez 33 pre-arb 32 0.7 0.4 +2.2
Isiah Kiner-Falefa 28 arb 115 0.6 6.0 -3.7
Jimmy Cordero 31 arb 31 0.6 0.7 +1.5
Jhony Brito 25 – 25 0.4 0.4 +1.3
Austin Wells 23 – 19 0.3 0.1 +1.2
Jasson Domínguez 20 – 8 0.3 0.1 +1.0
Tommy Kahnle 33 FA-elig 42 0.3 5.8 -4.6
Estevan Florial 25 pre-arb 19 0.3 0.1 +1.0
Luke Weaver↔ CIN 29 FA-elig 3 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Billy McKinney 28 pre-arb 48 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Greg Allen 30 – 22 0.2 0.4 +0.3
Keynan Middleton↔ CHW 29 arb 12 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Randy Vásquez 24 – 11 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Yoendrys Gómez 23 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Josh Donaldson↔ MIL 37 FA-elig 34 0.0 14.5 -14.4
Greg Weissert 28 pre-arb 17 0.0 0.2 -0.0
Jonathan Loáisiga 28 arb 17 0.0 2.3 -2.2
Franchy Cordero 28 FA-elig 24 0.0 1.0 -1.0
Frankie Montas 30 FA-elig 1 0.0 7.5 -7.5
Anthony Misiewicz↔ ARI 28 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Ben Rortvedt 25 pre-arb 32 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Ryan Weber 32 arb 8 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Deivi García↔ CHW 24 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Matt Bowman 32 arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Willie Calhoun 28 – 44 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Carlos Rodón 30 FA-elig 14 -0.1 22.8 -23.3
Matt Krook 28 – 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Ron Marinaccio 27 pre-arb 45 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Zach McAllister 35 FA-elig 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Colten Brewer 30 pre-arb 3 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Jake Bauers 27 pre-arb 84 -0.3 0.6 -1.8
Oswald Peraza 23 pre-arb 52 -0.4 0.3 -1.8
Albert Abreu 27 arb 45 -0.4 0.7 -2.3
Wandy Peralta 31 FA-elig 63 -0.5 3.4 -5.2
Aaron Hicks↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 28 -0.5 3.2 -5.2
Luis Severino 29 FA-elig 19 -0.6 15.0 -17.2
Giancarlo Stanton 33 FA-elig 101 -0.6 32.0 -34.2
Everson Pereira 22 – 27 -0.6 0.2 -2.4
Oswaldo Cabrera 24 pre-arb 115 -0.8 0.7 -3.9

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.