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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.8 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+18.2 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
30–21 (0.588)
record
+336M
surplus $M (value/$)
59.6
roster fWAR
$259.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Cam Schlittler 25 pre-arb 11 8.7 0.8 +91.4
Cody Bellinger 30 FA-elig 51 6.7 36.5 +34.3
Ben Rice 27 pre-arb 47 6.6 0.8 +69.7
Aaron Judge 34 FA-elig 52 6.6 40.0 +30.3
Max Fried 32 FA-elig 10 5.8 14.5 +47.7
Will Warren 27 pre-arb 10 4.0 0.8 +42.0
Jazz Chisholm Jr. 28 – 51 3.7 – –
José Caballero 29 pre-arb 42 3.6 2.0 +36.7
Ryan Weathers 26 arb 9 3.1 1.4 +31.7
Paul Goldschmidt 38 FA-elig 27 2.7 4.0 +25.2
Trent Grisham 29 FA-elig 50 1.7 22.0 -3.9
Brent Headrick 28 pre-arb 26 1.6 0.8 +16.7
Austin Wells 26 pre-arb 39 1.6 0.9 +15.7
David Bednar 31 arb 22 1.2 9.0 +3.7
Jake Bird 30 arb 20 1.1 1.0 +11.1
Anthony Volpe 25 arb 8 0.9 3.5 +6.0
Carlos Rodón 33 FA-elig 3 0.9 27.8 -18.8
Fernando Cruz 36 arb 24 0.8 1.4 +6.9
Max Schuemann 29 pre-arb 9 0.5 0.7 +4.3
Ryan Yarbrough 34 FA-elig 10 0.4 2.5 +2.1
Tim Hill 36 FA-elig 24 0.4 3.0 +1.2
Gerrit Cole 35 FA-elig 1 0.4 36.0 -31.9
Giancarlo Stanton 36 FA-elig 24 0.3 19.0 -15.9
Paul Blackburn 32 FA-elig 15 0.2 2.0 +0.2
Yovanny Cruz 26 – 2 0.2 0.0 +1.8
Kervin Castro 27 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +1.3
Elmer Rodríguez 22 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.6
Amed Rosario 30 FA-elig 29 0.0 2.5 -2.5
Ryan McMahon 31 FA-elig 49 -0.1 16.0 -16.7
Yerry De los Santos 28 – 2 -0.1 – –
Jasson Domínguez 23 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.6 -2.3
Camilo Doval 28 arb 23 -0.2 6.1 -8.1
J.C. Escarra 31 pre-arb 18 -0.2 0.8 -3.0
Angel Chivilli 23 pre-arb 2 -0.3 0.7 -4.2
Spencer Jones 25 – 10 -0.5 0.1 -5.2
Brendan Beck 27 – 1 -0.5 0.0 -5.4
Randal Grichuk↔ CHW 34 – 16 -0.6 0.3 -7.1
Luis Gil 28 arb 4 -1.6 2.2 -19.5

38 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (95%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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.