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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.0
WAB — wins above budget
-1.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
71–91 (0.438)
record
+24M
surplus $M (value/$)
17.2
roster fWAR
$35.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jhoulys Chacín 29 FA-elig 34 2.7 1.8 +7.3
Manuel Margot 22 pre-arb 126 2.5 0.5 +7.8
Clayton Richard 33 FA-elig 32 2.2 1.8 +5.7
Luis Perdomo 24 pre-arb 29 1.9 0.5 +5.8
Austin Hedges 24 pre-arb 120 1.9 0.5 +5.7
José Pirela 27 arb 83 1.8 0.3 +5.7
Brad Hand 27 FA-elig 72 1.7 1.4 +4.2
Trevor Cahill↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 11 1.6 0.9 +4.3
Wil Myers 26 arb 155 1.5 4.5 +0.7
Yangervis Solarte 29 arb 128 1.5 2.6 +2.4
Dinelson Lamet 24 – 21 1.2 0.4 +3.7
Brandon Maurer↔ KCR 26 arb 42 0.7 1.2 +1.3
Hunter Renfroe 25 pre-arb 122 0.7 0.5 +1.9
Matt Szczur↔ CHC 27 arb 104 0.7 0.5 +1.8
Carlos Asuaje 25 pre-arb 89 0.7 0.3 +1.9
Cory Spangenberg 26 pre-arb 129 0.7 0.5 +1.7
Kirby Yates↔ ANA 30 pre-arb 61 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Franchy Cordero 22 – 30 0.5 0.1 +1.5
Christian Villanueva 26 pre-arb 12 0.5 0.0 +1.6
Craig Stammen 33 FA-elig 60 0.3 0.9 +0.2
Dusty Coleman 30 pre-arb 27 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Jarred Cosart 27 arb 7 0.2 0.6 +0.0
Kyle McGrath 24 pre-arb 17 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Jordan Lyles↔ COL 26 FA-elig 5 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Ryan Buchter↔ KCR 30 arb 42 0.0 0.3 -0.2
José Torres 23 pre-arb 62 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Tim Melville↔ MIN 27 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
José Ruiz 22 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Jake Esch 27 – 1 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Carter Capps 26 arb 11 -0.0 1.0 -1.1
Ryan Schimpf 29 pre-arb 53 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
Zach Lee 25 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Kyle Lloyd 26 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Rocky Gale 29 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Dillon Overton↔ SEA 25 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Travis Jankowski 26 pre-arb 27 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Buddy Baumann 29 pre-arb 23 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Christian Bethancourt 25 arb 8 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Phil Maton 24 – 46 -0.3 0.3 -1.4
Kevin Quackenbush 28 pre-arb 20 -0.3 0.2 -1.3
Héctor Sánchez 27 FA-elig 75 -0.3 0.8 -1.9
Jabari Blash 27 pre-arb 61 -0.4 0.2 -1.5
Luis Sardinas 24 – 29 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Cory Mazzoni 27 pre-arb 6 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
José A. Váldez↔ ANA 27 – 13 -0.4 – –
Erick Aybar 33 FA-elig 108 -0.4 1.8 -3.1
Travis Wood↔ KCR 30 FA-elig 12 -0.5 1.2 -2.8
Chase d'Arnaud↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 22 -0.5 0.4 -2.1
Miguel Díaz 22 pre-arb 31 -0.8 0.5 -3.1
Allen Córdoba 21 pre-arb 100 -1.0 0.5 -3.8
Jered Weaver 34 FA-elig 9 -1.1 3.0 -6.9
Luis Torrens 21 pre-arb 56 -1.3 0.5 -4.9

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