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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.3
WAB — wins above budget
+1.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record · made playoffs
-61M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.8
roster fWAR
$205.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Manny Machado 29 FA-elig 150 7.1 32.0 -6.0
Yu Darvish 35 FA-elig 30 4.2 19.0 -3.8
Ha-Seong Kim 26 pre-arb 150 3.6 6.0 +7.3
Jake Cronenworth 28 pre-arb 158 3.6 0.8 +12.5
Blake Snell 29 FA-elig 25 3.6 13.1 +0.1
Joe Musgrove 29 FA-elig 30 3.4 8.6 +3.8
Jurickson Profar 29 FA-elig 152 2.5 8.0 +1.2
Trent Grisham 25 pre-arb 152 1.7 0.7 +5.6
Luis García 35 FA-elig 64 1.6 3.2 +2.5
Taylor Rogers↔ MIL 31 – 42 1.3 0.2 +4.6
Juan Soto↔ WSN 23 arb 52 1.2 5.8 -1.6
Sean Manaea 30 arb 30 1.1 9.8 -5.8
Wil Myers 31 FA-elig 77 1.0 22.5 -18.9
MacKenzie Gore 23 – 16 0.8 0.4 +2.5
Nabil Crismatt 27 pre-arb 50 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Robert Suarez 31 – 45 0.7 6.0 -3.5
José Azocar 26 – 98 0.6 0.6 +1.8
Eric Hosmer↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 90 0.6 18.2 -15.9
Luke Voit↔ WSN 31 arb 82 0.5 3.3 -1.5
Tim Hill 32 arb 55 0.5 1.3 +0.4
Nick Martinez 31 FA-elig 47 0.4 6.0 -4.5
Mike Clevinger 31 FA-elig 23 0.4 8.0 -6.5
Brandon Drury↔ CIN 29 FA-elig 46 0.4 0.2 +1.2
Jorge Alfaro 29 FA-elig 82 0.4 2.7 -1.3
Pierce Johnson 31 arb 15 0.3 3.0 -1.9
Steven Wilson 27 – 50 0.3 0.7 +0.3
Adrian Morejon 23 pre-arb 26 0.2 0.7 +0.1
Nomar Mazara 27 – 55 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Josh Hader↔ MIL 28 arb 19 0.2 3.7 -3.0
Austin Nola 32 pre-arb 110 0.2 0.7 -0.1
Tayler Scott 30 – 8 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Eguy Rosario 22 – 7 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Michel Baez 26 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.3 -0.1
Ryan Weathers 22 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Kyle Tyler 25 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Reiss Knehr 25 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.1 -0.0
José Castillo 26 arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Austin Adams 31 arb 2 -0.0 0.9 -1.0
Pedro Avila 25 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Brandon Dixon 30 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Matthew Batten 27 – 15 -0.0 0.2 -0.4
Luis Campusano 23 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
CJ Abrams↔ WSN 21 – 46 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Ray Kerr 27 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Javy Guerra↔ TBR 26 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Dinelson Lamet↔ COL 29 arb 13 -0.1 1.9 -2.3
Luis Liberato 26 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Esteury Ruiz↔ MIL 23 – 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Brent Rooker↔ KCR 27 – 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Sergio Alcántara↔ ARI 25 – 22 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Trayce Thompson↔ LAD 31 – 6 -0.3 0.0 -1.3
Craig Stammen 38 FA-elig 33 -0.4 4.0 -5.5
Robinson Canó↔ ATL 39 FA-elig 12 -0.5 7.2 -9.0
Josh Bell↔ WSN 29 FA-elig 53 -0.7 3.4 -5.8
Matt Beaty 29 – 20 -0.7 0.6 -3.1

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.