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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-10.1
WAB — wins above budget
-4.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
66–96 (0.407)
record
-0M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.2
roster fWAR
$83.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Austin Hedges 25 arb 91 2.8 0.6 +8.8
Craig Stammen 34 FA-elig 73 2.2 2.2 +5.4
Freddy Galvis 28 FA-elig 162 2.2 6.8 +0.5
Robbie Erlin 27 arb 40 1.8 0.7 +5.5
Kirby Yates 31 arb 65 1.7 1.1 +4.9
Hunter Renfroe 26 pre-arb 117 1.7 0.6 +5.3
Christian Villanueva 27 pre-arb 110 1.7 0.5 +5.2
Travis Jankowski 27 pre-arb 117 1.5 0.5 +4.6
Wil Myers 27 arb 83 1.4 4.5 +0.2
Franmil Reyes 22 – 87 1.1 0.3 +3.4
Adam Cimber↔ CLE 27 pre-arb 42 1.1 0.3 +3.3
Manuel Margot 23 pre-arb 141 1.0 0.6 +2.9
Joey Lucchesi 25 – 26 0.9 0.5 +2.7
José Castillo 22 – 37 0.9 0.4 +2.6
Matt Strahm 26 pre-arb 41 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Tyson Ross↔ STL 31 FA-elig 25 0.8 1.3 +1.4
Cory Spangenberg 27 arb 116 0.7 1.7 +0.8
Brad Hand↔ CLE 28 FA-elig 41 0.7 2.4 +0.0
Eric Lauer 23 – 23 0.7 0.5 +1.9
Clayton Richard 34 FA-elig 28 0.7 3.0 -0.7
Robert Stock 28 – 32 0.6 0.2 +1.8
Phil Maton 25 pre-arb 45 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Luis Perdomo 25 pre-arb 12 0.5 0.6 +1.0
Franchy Cordero 23 pre-arb 40 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Jordan Lyles↔ MIL 27 FA-elig 26 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Luis Urías 21 – 12 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Miguel Díaz 23 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Brad Wieck 26 – 5 0.2 0.1 +0.5
José Pirela 28 arb 146 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Colten Brewer 25 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Rowan Wick 25 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Trey Wingenter 24 – 22 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Eric Hosmer 28 FA-elig 157 -0.0 21.0 -21.1
Buddy Baumann↔ NYM 30 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Francisco Mejía↔ CLE 22 pre-arb 20 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Kazuhisa Makita 33 pre-arb 27 -0.1 1.9 -2.3
Raffy Lopez 30 arb 37 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Kyle McGrath 25 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Tyler Webb↔ STL 27 – 4 -0.3 0.0 -0.9
Phil Hughes↔ MIN 32 FA-elig 16 -0.3 9.2 -10.1
Javy Guerra 22 – 13 -0.3 – –
A.J. Ellis 37 FA-elig 66 -0.3 1.2 -2.2
Walker Lockett 24 – 4 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Matt Szczur 28 arb 57 -0.4 0.9 -2.4
Brett Kennedy 23 – 6 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Chase Headley 34 FA-elig 27 -0.4 13.0 -14.5
Jacob Nix 22 – 9 -0.5 0.2 -2.0
Bryan Mitchell 27 arb 16 -0.6 0.6 -2.5
Carlos Asuaje 26 pre-arb 79 -0.7 0.6 -2.9

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 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.