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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+16.4 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+23.7 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
37–23 (0.617)
record · made playoffs
+4M
surplus $M (value/$)
22.0
roster fWAR
$132.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Fernando Tatis Jr. 21 – 59 3.3 – –
Manny Machado 27 FA-elig 60 2.7 32.0 -12.6
Dinelson Lamet 27 arb 12 2.5 1.3 +16.7
Trent Grisham 23 pre-arb 59 2.4 0.2 +17.1
Wil Myers 29 FA-elig 55 2.2 22.5 -6.3
Jake Cronenworth 26 – 54 1.9 0.2 +13.8
Zach Davies 27 arb 12 1.4 5.2 +4.8
Jurickson Profar 27 FA-elig 56 0.9 5.7 +1.2
Drew Pomeranz 31 FA-elig 20 0.8 6.0 -0.4
Mike Clevinger↔ CLE 29 arb 4 0.7 2.0 +3.2
Garrett Richards 32 FA-elig 14 0.7 8.5 -3.2
Eric Hosmer 30 FA-elig 38 0.7 21.0 -15.9
Trevor Rosenthal↔ KCR 30 FA-elig 9 0.6 0.2 +4.4
Austin Nola↔ SEA 30 pre-arb 19 0.5 0.0 +3.3
Chris Paddack 24 pre-arb 12 0.4 0.2 +2.5
Ty France↔ SEA 25 – 20 0.3 0.0 +2.3
Pierce Johnson 29 arb 24 0.3 2.0 +0.2
Craig Stammen 36 FA-elig 24 0.3 4.0 -1.8
Cal Quantrill↔ CLE 25 – 10 0.2 0.1 +1.6
Dan Altavilla↔ SEA 27 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.0 +1.4
Michel Baez 24 pre-arb 3 0.2 0.0 +1.2
Joey Lucchesi 27 pre-arb 3 0.2 0.1 +1.1
Josh Naylor↔ CLE 23 – 18 0.1 0.0 +1.0
Luis Campusano 21 – 1 0.1 0.1 +0.8
Jorge Ona 23 – 5 0.1 0.0 +0.8
Javy Guerra 24 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.2 +0.6
Greg Allen↔ CLE 27 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.7
Emilio Pagán 29 pre-arb 22 0.0 0.2 +0.1
Tim Hill 30 pre-arb 23 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Taylor Williams↔ SEA 28 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
David Bednar 25 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Austin Hedges↔ CLE 27 arb 29 0.0 2.5 -2.4
Matt Strahm 28 arb 19 0.0 1.4 -1.4
Austin Adams 29 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Kirby Yates 33 FA-elig 6 -0.0 7.1 -7.3
Jason Castro↔ ANA 33 FA-elig 9 -0.0 2.3 -2.6
Luis Patiño 20 – 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Tommy Pham 32 arb 31 -0.1 2.9 -3.4
Luis Torrens↔ SEA 24 – 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Luis Perdomo 27 arb 10 -0.1 0.9 -1.5
Greg Garcia 30 FA-elig 35 -0.1 1.5 -2.4
Jorge Mateo 25 – 22 -0.1 0.2 -1.2
Adrian Morejon 21 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.1 -1.1
Abraham Almonte 31 arb 7 -0.2 0.0 -1.2
Mitch Moreland↔ BOS 34 FA-elig 20 -0.2 1.2 -2.9
Edward Olivares↔ KCR 24 – 13 -0.4 0.0 -3.1
Francisco Mejía 24 pre-arb 17 -0.4 0.2 -3.3

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.