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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.4
WAB — wins above budget
-8.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-44M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.1
roster fWAR
$126.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Tyson Ross 28 arb 34 4.8 5.2 +9.7
Derek Norris 26 arb 147 3.8 0.5 +11.5
Justin Upton 27 FA-elig 150 3.4 14.5 -3.7
Cory Spangenberg 24 pre-arb 108 2.0 0.5 +5.7
Yangervis Solarte 27 pre-arb 152 1.8 0.5 +5.1
Andrew Cashner 28 arb 38 1.5 4.0 +0.8
B.J. Upton 30 FA-elig 87 1.5 14.4 -9.7
Craig Kimbrel 27 arb 61 1.3 9.0 -4.9
Yonder Alonso 28 arb 103 1.0 1.6 +1.6
Will Venable↔ TEX 32 FA-elig 98 1.0 3.1 +0.1
Matt Kemp 30 FA-elig 154 1.0 21.2 -18.1
Wil Myers 24 pre-arb 60 1.0 0.5 +2.5
Jedd Gyorko 26 pre-arb 128 0.9 2.0 +1.0
Shawn Kelley 31 FA-elig 53 0.9 2.8 -0.1
James Shields 33 FA-elig 36 0.7 10.0 -7.7
Brett Wallace 28 pre-arb 64 0.6 0.3 +1.6
Colin Rea 24 – 7 0.6 0.1 +1.7
Austin Hedges 22 – 56 0.5 0.4 +1.2
Brandon Maurer 24 pre-arb 53 0.5 0.5 +1.1
Brandon Morrow 30 FA-elig 5 0.4 2.5 -1.4
Nick Vincent 28 arb 26 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Ian Kennedy 30 FA-elig 30 0.3 9.8 -9.0
Bud Norris↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 20 0.2 4.6 -3.8
Robbie Erlin 24 pre-arb 3 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Joaquín Benoit 37 FA-elig 67 0.2 8.0 -7.3
Clint Barmes 36 FA-elig 98 0.2 1.3 -0.8
Kevin Quackenbush 26 pre-arb 57 0.1 0.5 -0.0
Jay Jackson 27 – 6 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Leonel Campos 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Marc Rzepczynski↔ CLE 29 FA-elig 27 -0.0 0.9 -0.9
Casey Kelly 25 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Alex Dickerson 25 – 11 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Marcos Mateo 31 pre-arb 26 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Cory Mazzoni 25 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Rocky Gale 27 – 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Travis Jankowski 24 – 34 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Chris Rearick 27 – 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Jon Edwards↔ TEX 27 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.3 -0.8
Wil Nieves 37 FA-elig 6 -0.2 0.8 -1.4
Cody Decker 28 – 8 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Abraham Almonte↔ CLE 26 – 31 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Odrisamer Despaigne 28 pre-arb 34 -0.4 0.5 -1.7
Dale Thayer 34 FA-elig 38 -0.4 1.4 -2.6
Will Middlebrooks 26 arb 83 -0.4 0.5 -1.9
Alexi Amarista 26 arb 118 -0.9 1.1 -4.1
Frank Garces 25 pre-arb 40 -0.9 0.5 -3.5

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.