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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.6
WAB — wins above budget
+4.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–80 (0.506)
record
-64M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.8
roster fWAR
$237.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Juan Soto 24 arb 162 6.2 23.0 +1.5
Xander Bogaerts 30 FA-elig 155 4.6 25.5 -7.2
Ha-Seong Kim 27 pre-arb 152 4.2 7.0 +9.7
Blake Snell 30 FA-elig 32 4.1 16.6 -0.2
Fernando Tatis Jr. 24 arb 141 4.0 7.7 +8.3
Manny Machado 30 FA-elig 138 3.4 17.1 -3.7
Seth Lugo 33 FA-elig 26 2.9 7.5 +3.9
Michael Wacha 31 FA-elig 24 2.6 7.5 +3.0
Yu Darvish 36 FA-elig 24 2.4 25.0 -15.3
Joe Musgrove 30 FA-elig 17 2.1 20.0 -11.5
Gary Sánchez↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 72 1.8 1.4 +5.5
Josh Hader 29 FA-elig 61 1.7 14.1 -7.3
Trent Grisham 26 arb 153 1.7 3.2 +3.5
Nick Martinez 32 FA-elig 63 1.4 10.0 -4.5
Luis Campusano 24 arb 49 1.0 0.7 +3.4
Jake Cronenworth 29 arb 127 0.8 4.2 -1.2
Pedro Avila 26 pre-arb 14 0.7 0.3 +2.3
Tom Cosgrove 27 – 54 0.6 0.6 +1.9
Scott Barlow↔ KCR 30 arb 25 0.5 2.1 -0.0
Steven Wilson 28 pre-arb 52 0.4 0.7 +1.0
Matthew Batten 28 pre-arb 43 0.4 0.3 +1.3
Rougned Odor 29 FA-elig 59 0.3 0.8 +0.5
Drew Carlton 27 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.5 +0.5
Eguy Rosario 23 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.6 +0.4
Garrett Cooper↔ MIA 32 FA-elig 41 0.2 1.3 -0.5
Ray Kerr 28 pre-arb 22 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Jurickson Profar↔ COL 30 FA-elig 14 0.1 0.9 -0.4
Jackson Wolf 24 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Luis García 36 FA-elig 61 0.1 3.8 -3.3
Matt Waldron 26 – 8 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Alek Jacob 25 – 3 0.1 0.3 -0.0
Adrian Morejon 24 arb 8 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Robert Suarez 32 pre-arb 27 0.0 10.0 -10.0
Jose Espada 26 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Ryan Weathers↔ MIA 23 pre-arb 12 -0.0 0.6 -0.7
Chandler Seagle 27 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
José Castillo 27 arb 1 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Alfonso Rivas III↔ PIT 26 – 8 -0.1 – –
Domingo Tapia 31 arb 15 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Nick Hernandez 28 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Ben Gamel 31 FA-elig 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
José Azocar 27 pre-arb 55 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Taylor Kohlwey 28 – 5 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Brandon Dixon 31 pre-arb 33 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
David Dahl 29 FA-elig 4 -0.2 1.2 -2.0
Brent Honeywell↔ CHW 28 pre-arb 36 -0.2 0.7 -1.6
Adam Engel 31 FA-elig 5 -0.2 1.0 -2.0
Nelson Cruz 42 FA-elig 49 -0.3 1.0 -2.1
Reiss Knehr 26 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.4 -1.5
Nabil Crismatt↔ ARI 28 arb 7 -0.3 0.7 -1.9
Rich Hill↔ PIT 43 FA-elig 10 -0.4 2.5 -4.0
Ji Man Choi↔ PIT 32 FA-elig 16 -0.4 1.9 -3.4
Matt Carpenter 37 FA-elig 76 -0.4 6.5 -8.2
Tim Hill 33 arb 48 -0.4 1.9 -3.6
Brett Sullivan 29 – 33 -0.5 0.3 -2.2
Austin Nola 33 arb 52 -0.9 2.4 -5.9

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 55 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.