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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.3
WAB — wins above budget
+7.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
94–68 (0.580)
record · won pennant
-92M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.6
roster fWAR
$294.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Aaron Judge 32 FA-elig 158 11.3 40.0 +7.2
Juan Soto 25 FA-elig 157 8.3 31.0 +3.6
Anthony Volpe 23 pre-arb 160 3.5 0.8 +13.7
Austin Wells 24 pre-arb 115 3.5 0.8 +13.7
Nestor Cortes 29 FA-elig 31 3.1 4.0 +8.8
Jazz Chisholm Jr.↔ MIA 26 arb 46 2.3 0.8 +8.8
Luis Gil 26 arb 29 2.1 0.7 +8.0
Gleyber Torres 27 FA-elig 154 1.8 14.2 -6.6
Gerrit Cole 33 FA-elig 17 1.8 36.0 -28.6
Clarke Schmidt 28 arb 16 1.7 2.0 +4.9
Jose Trevino 31 FA-elig 74 1.6 2.7 +4.1
Carlos Rodón 31 FA-elig 32 1.6 27.8 -21.1
Clay Holmes 31 FA-elig 67 1.2 6.0 -1.2
Luke Weaver 30 FA-elig 62 1.0 2.0 +2.1
Oswaldo Cabrera 25 pre-arb 109 0.9 0.8 +3.1
Marcus Stroman 33 FA-elig 30 0.9 18.5 -14.7
Giancarlo Stanton 34 FA-elig 114 0.8 32.0 -28.5
Ian Hamilton 29 FA-elig 35 0.6 0.9 +1.7
Alex Verdugo 28 FA-elig 149 0.6 8.7 -6.2
Trent Grisham 27 arb 76 0.5 5.5 -3.3
Michael Tonkin↔ MIN 34 FA-elig 39 0.4 0.7 +1.0
Jon Berti 34 arb 25 0.3 3.6 -2.5
Tim Hill↔ CHW 34 FA-elig 35 0.2 1.0 -0.0
Cody Poteet 29 arb 5 0.2 0.8 +0.2
Jonathan Loáisiga 29 FA-elig 3 0.1 2.5 -1.9
Jake Cousins 29 arb 37 0.1 0.7 -0.2
Dennis Santana↔ PIT 28 – 23 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Clayton Beeter 25 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Will Warren 25 – 6 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Jahmai Jones 26 arb 33 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Duke Ellis↔ CHW 26 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Oswald Peraza 24 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.8 -0.5
Tommy Kahnle 34 FA-elig 50 0.1 5.8 -5.5
Tim Mayza↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 15 0.0 1.1 -1.0
Phil Bickford 28 pre-arb 8 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Taylor Trammell↔ LAD 26 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Josh Maciejewski 28 – 4 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Anthony Misiewicz 29 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Caleb Ferguson↔ HOU 27 FA-elig 42 -0.0 1.6 -1.6
Carlos Narváez 25 – 6 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Kevin Smith 27 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Scott Effross 30 arb 3 -0.1 0.8 -1.1
Ron Marinaccio 28 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Yoendrys Gómez 24 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Nick Burdi 31 FA-elig 12 -0.1 0.8 -1.3
Enyel De Los Santos↔ CHW 28 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Clayton Andrews 27 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Jasson Domínguez 21 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Mark Leiter Jr.↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 21 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Anthony Rizzo 34 FA-elig 92 -0.2 17.0 -17.8
J.D. Davis↔ OAK 31 – 7 -0.2 0.2 -1.1
Ben Rice 25 – 50 -0.3 0.3 -1.7
Victor González 28 arb 27 -0.4 0.9 -2.7
DJ LeMahieu 35 FA-elig 67 -0.5 15.0 -16.9

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.