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GM: Josh Byrnes (since 2012)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.5
WAB — wins above budget
-2.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–86 (0.469)
record
+4M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.6
roster fWAR
$68.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chase Headley 29 FA-elig 141 3.4 8.6 +0.7
Eric Stults 33 FA-elig 37 3.4 0.5 +8.5
Andrew Cashner 26 arb 34 3.3 0.5 +8.2
Everth Cabrera 26 arb 95 2.9 1.3 +6.6
Chris Denorfia 32 FA-elig 144 2.9 2.0 +5.7
Will Venable 30 arb 151 2.6 2.7 +4.2
Jedd Gyorko 24 pre-arb 125 2.4 0.5 +5.8
Tyson Ross 26 arb 36 2.0 0.5 +4.9
Carlos Quentin 30 FA-elig 82 1.6 9.5 -5.1
Yasmani Grandal 24 pre-arb 28 1.3 0.8 +2.7
Luke Gregerson 29 arb 73 1.2 3.2 +0.0
Nick Vincent 26 pre-arb 45 1.1 0.3 +2.8
René Rivera 29 pre-arb 23 0.9 0.2 +2.3
Edinson Volquez↔ LAD 29 FA-elig 27 0.8 4.7 -2.6
Yonder Alonso 26 arb 97 0.7 1.1 +0.8
Kyle Blanks 26 arb 88 0.6 0.6 +1.1
Robbie Erlin 22 – 11 0.6 0.1 +1.5
Tommy Medica 25 – 19 0.5 0.1 +1.2
Joe Thatcher↔ ARI 31 FA-elig 50 0.4 0.9 +0.1
Cody Ransom↔ CHC 37 FA-elig 5 0.4 0.0 +0.9
Jesus Guzman 29 arb 126 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Ronny Cedeno↔ HOU 30 FA-elig 38 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Sean O'Sullivan 25 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Ian Kennedy↔ ARI 28 FA-elig 10 0.2 1.3 -0.8
Tim Stauffer 31 FA-elig 43 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Alexi Amarista 24 pre-arb 146 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Dale Thayer 32 arb 69 0.1 0.5 -0.3
John Baker 32 arb 16 -0.0 0.9 -0.9
Chris Robinson 29 – 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Miles Mikolas 24 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Brad Brach 27 pre-arb 33 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Thad Weber↔ TOR 28 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Brad Boxberger 25 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Rey Fuentes 22 – 23 -0.1 – –
Anthony Bass 25 pre-arb 24 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Tommy Layne 28 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Nick Hundley 29 arb 114 -0.2 3.0 -3.5
Burch Smith 23 – 10 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Colt Hynes 28 pre-arb 22 -0.3 0.2 -0.9
Jaff Decker 23 pre-arb 13 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Pedro Ciriaco↔ BOS 27 arb 23 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Cameron Maybin 26 FA-elig 14 -0.4 3.0 -4.1
Logan Forsythe 26 pre-arb 75 -0.6 0.5 -2.1
Huston Street 29 FA-elig 58 -0.7 7.0 -9.0
Clayton Richard 29 arb 14 -0.9 5.2 -7.7
Jason Marquis 34 FA-elig 21 -1.4 3.0 -6.7
Mark Kotsay 37 FA-elig 104 -1.4 1.3 -5.1

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 46 of them (98%). 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 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.