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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.8
WAB — wins above budget
+11.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
94–68 (0.580)
record · made playoffs
-51M
surplus $M (value/$)
50.6
roster fWAR
$221.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Aaron Judge 33 FA-elig 152 10.1 40.0 -1.7
Cody Bellinger 29 FA-elig 152 4.9 27.5 -9.0
Max Fried 31 FA-elig 32 4.8 14.5 +3.5
Jazz Chisholm Jr. 27 – 130 4.4 – –
Carlos Rodón 32 FA-elig 33 3.2 27.8 -15.6
Trent Grisham 28 arb 143 3.2 5.2 +6.7
Austin Wells 25 pre-arb 126 3.0 0.8 +10.7
Ben Rice 26 pre-arb 138 3.0 0.8 +10.7
Will Warren 26 pre-arb 33 2.1 0.8 +7.1
Giancarlo Stanton 35 FA-elig 77 1.9 32.0 -24.7
Devin Williams 30 arb 67 1.4 8.6 -3.5
Cam Schlittler 24 – 14 1.3 0.3 +4.6
Clarke Schmidt 29 arb 14 1.3 3.6 +1.2
José Caballero↔ TBR 28 pre-arb 40 1.1 0.1 +3.9
Anthony Volpe 24 pre-arb 153 1.0 0.9 +3.0
David Bednar↔ PIT 30 arb 22 0.8 1.4 +1.6
Paul Goldschmidt 37 FA-elig 146 0.8 12.5 -9.6
Fernando Cruz 35 pre-arb 49 0.8 0.8 +2.1
Jasson Domínguez 22 pre-arb 123 0.7 0.8 +1.8
Ryan McMahon↔ COL 30 FA-elig 54 0.6 1.5 +0.9
Mark Leiter Jr. 34 – 59 0.6 – –
Luis Gil 27 pre-arb 11 0.6 0.8 +1.3
Luke Weaver 31 FA-elig 64 0.5 2.8 -1.0
J.C. Escarra 30 – 40 0.5 0.6 +1.1
Yerry De los Santos 27 – 25 0.3 – –
Amed Rosario↔ WSN 29 FA-elig 16 0.3 0.3 +0.6
DJ LeMahieu 36 – 45 0.3 – –
Brent Headrick 27 pre-arb 17 0.1 0.4 +0.0
Oswaldo Cabrera 26 pre-arb 34 0.1 0.8 -0.5
Ryan Yarbrough 33 FA-elig 19 0.1 2.0 -1.7
Marcus Stroman 34 – 9 0.1 18.0 -17.7
Camilo Doval↔ SFG 27 arb 22 0.1 1.0 -0.7
JT Brubaker↔ SFG 31 – 12 0.1 1.2 -1.0
Tyler Matzek 34 – 7 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Ian Hamilton 30 pre-arb 36 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Paul Blackburn↔ NYM 31 arb 8 0.0 2.1 -2.0
Scott Effross 31 pre-arb 11 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Tim Hill 35 FA-elig 70 -0.0 2.5 -2.6
Adam Ottavino 39 – 3 -0.0 – –
Carlos Carrasco↔ ATL 38 – 8 -0.1 1.1 -1.4
Geoff Hartlieb↔ DET 31 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Rico Garcia↔ BAL 31 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Jayvien Sandridge 26 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Allan Winans 29 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Yoendrys Gómez↔ CHW 25 – 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Jorbit Vivas 24 pre-arb 29 -0.2 0.2 -1.1
Jake Bird↔ COL 29 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -1.0
Clayton Beeter↔ WSN 26 – 2 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Austin Slater↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 14 -0.3 0.3 -1.5
Pablo Reyes 31 – 25 -0.4 0.9 -2.5
Jonathan Loáisiga 30 FA-elig 30 -0.5 5.0 -7.0
Oswald Peraza↔ ANA 25 – 71 -0.6 0.4 -2.5

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (90%). 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
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.