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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.4
WAB — wins above budget
+11.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
+22M
surplus $M (value/$)
45.9
roster fWAR
$169.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jackson Merrill 21 pre-arb 156 5.3 0.7 +21.5
Dylan Cease 28 arb 33 4.7 8.0 +11.8
Jurickson Profar 31 FA-elig 158 4.3 1.0 +17.1
Michael King 29 arb 31 3.9 3.1 +13.1
Manny Machado 31 FA-elig 152 3.5 17.1 -2.4
Fernando Tatis Jr. 25 arb 102 3.3 11.7 +1.9
Ha-Seong Kim 28 arb 121 2.6 8.0 +3.0
Jake Cronenworth 30 arb 155 2.1 7.3 +1.3
Xander Bogaerts 31 FA-elig 111 2.0 25.5 -17.0
Matt Waldron 27 pre-arb 27 1.8 0.7 +6.6
Jeremiah Estrada 25 pre-arb 62 1.6 0.7 +6.1
Kyle Higashioka 34 FA-elig 84 1.6 2.2 +4.3
Joe Musgrove 31 FA-elig 19 1.4 20.0 -14.3
Luis Arraez↔ MIA 27 arb 117 1.2 8.3 -3.4
Adrian Morejon 25 arb 60 1.1 0.8 +3.8
Yu Darvish 37 FA-elig 16 1.1 16.0 -11.6
Robert Suarez 33 pre-arb 65 0.9 10.0 -6.3
Donovan Solano 36 FA-elig 96 0.8 0.8 +2.5
Randy Vásquez 25 pre-arb 20 0.7 0.7 +2.4
Tanner Scott↔ MIA 29 FA-elig 28 0.7 2.2 +0.7
Jason Adam↔ TBR 32 FA-elig 27 0.7 1.0 +1.9
David Peralta 36 FA-elig 91 0.5 0.7 +1.2
Eguy Rosario 24 pre-arb 30 0.4 0.7 +0.7
Yuki Matsui 28 pre-arb 64 0.3 3.2 -1.9
Jhony Brito 26 pre-arb 26 0.3 0.7 +0.5
Stephen Kolek 27 pre-arb 42 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Sean Reynolds 26 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.1 +0.9
Alek Jacob 26 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.7 +0.3
Martín Pérez↔ PIT 33 FA-elig 10 0.2 3.1 -2.1
Bryan Hoeing↔ MIA 27 pre-arb 18 0.2 0.4 +0.5
Mason McCoy 29 pre-arb 19 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Matthew Batten 29 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.7 -0.2
Elias Díaz↔ COL 33 FA-elig 12 0.1 0.8 -0.3
Austin Davis 31 – 7 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Nick Ahmed↔ LAD 34 FA-elig 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Brandon Lockridge 27 – 12 0.0 0.1 -0.0
José Azocar 28 pre-arb 61 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Carl Edwards Jr. 32 – 1 0.0 – –
Logan Gillaspie 27 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Bryce Johnson 28 pre-arb 47 -0.0 0.3 -0.5
Pedro Avila↔ CLE 27 arb 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Brett Sullivan 30 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Tom Cosgrove 28 pre-arb 18 -0.2 0.8 -1.6
Adam Mazur 23 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.7 -1.9
Graham Pauley 23 pre-arb 13 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
Tyler Wade 29 FA-elig 90 -0.3 0.8 -2.2
Enyel De Los Santos↔ CHW 28 FA-elig 44 -0.3 1.1 -2.4
Wandy Peralta 32 FA-elig 46 -0.5 3.4 -5.3
Luis Campusano 25 arb 91 -0.5 0.8 -2.7

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.