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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.7 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-3.6 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
32–27 (0.542)
record
+111M
surplus $M (value/$)
30.9
roster fWAR
$148.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mason Miller 27 pre-arb 24 4.1 4.0 +34.0
Fernando Tatis Jr. 27 – 58 3.4 – –
Xander Bogaerts 33 FA-elig 57 2.9 25.5 +1.8
Michael King 31 FA-elig 12 2.9 9.0 +18.2
Adrian Morejon 27 arb 27 2.9 3.9 +22.6
Ty France 31 FA-elig 39 2.4 1.4 +21.2
Nick Pivetta 33 FA-elig 4 2.4 20.5 +1.6
Gavin Sheets 30 arb 54 2.4 4.5 +17.4
Walker Buehler 31 FA-elig 11 2.4 1.5 +20.4
Luis Campusano 27 arb 18 2.3 0.9 +20.9
Bradgley Rodriguez 22 pre-arb 25 2.0 0.8 +18.0
Randy Vásquez 27 pre-arb 12 1.5 0.8 +13.2
Jackson Merrill 23 pre-arb 56 0.9 2.1 +6.4
Ramón Laureano 31 FA-elig 53 0.9 6.5 +1.4
Manny Machado 33 FA-elig 57 0.9 25.1 -17.2
Yuki Matsui 30 pre-arb 9 0.8 5.8 +1.5
Jeremiah Estrada 27 pre-arb 21 0.6 0.8 +4.9
Jason Adam 34 arb 23 0.5 6.7 -2.0
Rodolfo Durán 28 – 13 0.5 0.6 +3.9
Miguel Andujar 31 FA-elig 48 0.5 1.5 +3.0
Kyle Hart 33 pre-arb 12 0.5 1.0 +3.4
Ron Marinaccio 30 pre-arb 20 0.3 0.8 +1.8
Bryce Johnson 30 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.8 -0.2
Alek Jacob 28 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Jase Bowen 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
Matt Waldron 29 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.8 -2.7
Sung-Mun Song 29 – 18 -0.3 – –
Griffin Canning 30 FA-elig 6 -0.4 1.0 -4.4
Wandy Peralta 34 FA-elig 23 -0.5 4.5 -9.1
Freddy Fermin 31 pre-arb 43 -0.5 2.1 -6.8
David Morgan 26 pre-arb 11 -0.5 0.2 -4.9
Lucas Giolito 31 FA-elig 3 -0.5 1.5 -6.6
Jake Cronenworth 32 FA-elig 32 -0.8 12.3 -19.7
Germán Márquez 31 FA-elig 6 -1.1 1.0 -11.0
Nick Castellanos 34 FA-elig 39 -2.2 0.8 -20.8

35 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (91%). 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 SDP
Fernando Tatís201627.7
Trevor Hoffman199324.3
Andy Ashby199317.7
Ken Caminiti199417.4
Phil Nevin199917.3
Brian Giles200317.1
Ryan Klesko199916.6
Jake Cronenworth201914.8
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Ozzie Smith198148.0
Corey Kluber201034.6
Anthony Rizzo201231.1
Yasmani Grandal201420.6
Roberto Alomar199020.4
Max Fried201420.1
Trea Turner201519.4
John Kruk198918.4
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.