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GM: Josh Byrnes (since 2012)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.2
WAB — wins above budget
-4.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
+1M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.9
roster fWAR
$70.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
René Rivera 30 FA-elig 103 4.9 0.5 +13.8
Ian Kennedy 29 FA-elig 33 3.1 6.1 +2.9
Tyson Ross 27 arb 32 3.0 2.0 +6.6
Yasmani Grandal 25 pre-arb 128 2.8 0.8 +7.3
Seth Smith 31 FA-elig 136 2.7 4.5 +3.3
Andrew Cashner 27 arb 23 1.6 2.4 +2.2
Joaquín Benoit 36 FA-elig 53 1.2 6.0 -2.5
Chase Headley↔ NYY 30 FA-elig 77 1.1 6.0 -2.9
Jesse Hahn 24 – 15 0.8 0.2 +2.0
Will Venable 31 FA-elig 146 0.7 4.2 -2.1
Alexi Amarista 25 arb 148 0.7 0.5 +1.6
Nick Vincent 27 pre-arb 63 0.7 0.5 +1.5
Kevin Quackenbush 25 – 56 0.7 0.4 +1.7
Robbie Erlin 23 pre-arb 13 0.6 0.5 +1.3
Yangervis Solarte↔ NYY 26 – 56 0.6 0.1 +1.6
Tommy Medica 26 pre-arb 102 0.6 0.5 +1.1
Odrisamer Despaigne 27 pre-arb 16 0.5 0.3 +1.3
Abraham Almonte↔ SEA 25 pre-arb 32 0.5 0.2 +1.3
Huston Street↔ ANA 30 FA-elig 33 0.5 3.8 -2.4
Yonder Alonso 27 arb 84 0.5 1.0 +0.3
Tim Stauffer 32 FA-elig 44 0.4 1.6 -0.5
Cameron Maybin 27 FA-elig 95 0.3 5.0 -4.1
Chris Denorfia↔ SEA 33 FA-elig 89 0.3 1.7 -0.8
Blaine Boyer 32 FA-elig 32 0.3 0.7 +0.1
Jason Lane 37 – 3 0.1 – –
Cory Spangenberg 23 – 20 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Leonel Campos 26 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.0 +0.1
Frank Garces 24 – 15 0.0 0.1 +0.0
R.J. Alvarez 23 – 10 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Irving Falu↔ MIL 31 – 11 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Troy Patton↔ BAL 28 FA-elig 8 0.0 0.6 -0.6
Nick Hundley↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 33 0.0 1.6 -1.6
Hector Ambriz 30 – 1 -0.0 – –
Dale Thayer 33 arb 70 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Adam Moore 30 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Kyle Blanks↔ OAK 27 arb 5 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Jake Goebbert 26 – 51 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Billy Buckner 30 – 1 -0.1 – –
Jedd Gyorko 25 pre-arb 111 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Xavier Nady 35 FA-elig 22 -0.1 0.8 -1.2
Alex Torres 26 arb 70 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Brooks Conrad 34 – 13 -0.2 – –
Chris Nelson 28 – 27 -0.3 – –
Donn Roach 24 pre-arb 16 -0.3 0.2 -1.0
Jeff Francoeur 30 FA-elig 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Joe Wieland 24 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Everth Cabrera 27 arb 90 -0.5 2.5 -3.8
Eric Stults 34 FA-elig 32 -0.6 2.8 -4.4
Rymer Liriano 23 – 38 -0.6 0.1 -1.8
Carlos Quentin 31 FA-elig 50 -0.6 9.5 -11.2
Jace Peterson 24 – 27 -0.8 0.2 -2.4

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 46 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 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.