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GM: Ben Cherington (since 2020)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.9 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+15.9 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
33–28 (0.541)
record
+323M
surplus $M (value/$)
46.2
roster fWAR
$104.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brandon Lowe 31 FA-elig 55 6.3 11.5 +46.8
Braxton Ashcraft 26 pre-arb 12 5.3 0.8 +48.5
Paul Skenes 24 pre-arb 12 5.1 1.1 +46.5
Mitch Keller 30 FA-elig 12 4.0 16.9 +19.9
Bryan Reynolds 31 FA-elig 61 4.0 14.2 +22.4
Oneil Cruz 27 arb 59 3.8 3.3 +32.3
Nick Gonzales 27 pre-arb 55 3.6 0.8 +32.3
Spencer Horwitz 28 pre-arb 56 3.3 0.8 +29.7
Carmen Mlodzinski 27 pre-arb 11 3.1 0.8 +28.1
Konnor Griffin 20 – 51 3.0 2.3 +25.5
Gregory Soto 31 FA-elig 28 2.6 7.8 +16.0
Ryan O'Hearn 32 FA-elig 46 2.1 14.0 +5.3
Endy Rodríguez 26 pre-arb 11 1.6 0.6 +14.1
Evan Sisk 29 pre-arb 21 1.2 0.7 +10.7
Jake Mangum 30 pre-arb 42 1.1 0.8 +9.4
Isaac Mattson 30 pre-arb 21 0.8 0.2 +7.2
Bubba Chandler 23 pre-arb 12 0.7 0.8 +6.0
Wilber Dotel 23 – 7 0.7 0.6 +6.1
Mason Montgomery 26 pre-arb 23 0.7 0.8 +5.7
Joey Bart 29 arb 21 0.4 2.5 +0.9
Tyler Callihan 26 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.8 +0.3
Cam Sanders 29 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.0 +1.1
Esmerlyn Valdez 22 – 5 0.1 0.5 +0.2
José Urquidy 31 FA-elig 5 0.1 1.5 -1.0
Yohan Ramírez 31 arb 26 -0.0 0.8 -1.0
Chris Devenski 35 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.7 -1.7
Jared Jones 24 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.8 -3.0
Dennis Santana 30 arb 27 -0.3 3.5 -5.8
Nick Yorke 24 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.0 -2.6
Henry Davis 26 pre-arb 41 -0.3 0.8 -3.5
Billy Cook 27 pre-arb 32 -0.4 0.2 -4.2
Jhostynxon Garcia 23 pre-arb 10 -0.4 0.5 -4.6
Justin Lawrence 31 arb 23 -0.6 1.2 -6.4
Brandan Bidois 25 – 8 -0.7 0.6 -7.1
Jared Triolo 28 pre-arb 29 -0.8 0.8 -8.2
Hunter Barco 25 pre-arb 5 -1.4 0.1 -12.8
Marcell Ozuna 35 FA-elig 46 -2.1 10.5 -30.0

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 PIT
Andy Van Slyke198731.1
Brian Giles199825.4
Doug Drabek198621.4
Bobby Bonilla198620.6
Bryan Reynolds201820.0
Mike LaValliere198712.9
Josh Harrison200911.9
Jack Wilson200011.0
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Aramis Ramírez200325.0
Jason Schmidt200123.6
Brian Giles200317.1
Willie Randolph197514.7
Moisés Alou199013.8
John Tudor198412.0
Randy Milligan198811.9
Bip Roberts198511.1
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.