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GM: AJ Preller (since 2015)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.6
WAB — wins above budget
+1.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · made playoffs
-47M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.8
roster fWAR
$166.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Fernando Tatis Jr. 26 – 155 6.1 – –
Manny Machado 32 FA-elig 159 3.8 17.1 -2.7
Nick Pivetta 32 FA-elig 31 3.7 2.5 +11.6
Dylan Cease 29 arb 32 3.4 13.8 -0.7
Xander Bogaerts 32 FA-elig 136 3.2 25.5 -13.1
Jackson Merrill 22 pre-arb 115 3.0 0.8 +10.7
Jake Cronenworth 31 arb 135 2.9 11.3 -0.1
Adrian Morejon 26 arb 75 2.2 2.0 +6.6
Robert Suarez 34 arb 70 1.9 13.0 -5.7
Gavin Sheets 29 arb 145 1.3 1.6 +3.6
Jason Adam 33 arb 65 1.2 4.8 -0.0
Mason Miller↔ OAK 26 pre-arb 22 1.1 0.2 +3.9
Jeremiah Estrada 26 pre-arb 77 1.0 0.8 +3.2
Luis Arraez 28 arb 154 0.9 14.0 -10.6
Michael King 30 arb 15 0.8 4.0 -0.8
Randy Vásquez 26 pre-arb 28 0.8 0.7 +2.4
Stephen Kolek↔ KCR 28 – 14 0.8 0.3 +2.7
Ramón Laureano↔ BAL 30 arb 50 0.7 1.4 +1.2
Bryce Johnson 29 pre-arb 55 0.7 0.4 +2.1
Ryan O'Hearn↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 50 0.6 2.7 -0.5
Freddy Fermin↔ KCR 30 pre-arb 42 0.6 0.2 +1.9
Wandy Peralta 33 FA-elig 71 0.5 4.2 -2.4
Yu Darvish 38 FA-elig 15 0.4 21.0 -19.6
Elias Díaz 34 – 106 0.4 2.0 -0.6
Ryan Bergert↔ KCR 25 – 11 0.3 0.1 +1.1
David Morgan 25 – 41 0.3 0.6 +0.6
Ron Marinaccio 29 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Brandon Lockridge↔ MIL 28 – 47 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Bradgley Rodriguez 21 – 7 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Bryan Hoeing 28 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Omar Cruz 26 – 2 0.0 0.2 -0.0
Mason McCoy 30 pre-arb 18 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Eduarniel Núñez↔ OAK 26 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Will Wagner↔ TOR 26 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Matt Waldron 28 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.4 -1.0
Connor Joe↔ CIN 32 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Kyle Hart 32 pre-arb 20 -0.2 1.0 -1.6
Logan Gillaspie 28 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Tirso Ornelas 25 – 7 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Jose Iglesias 35 FA-elig 112 -0.2 3.0 -3.9
JP Sears↔ OAK 29 pre-arb 5 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Sean Reynolds 27 pre-arb 19 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Yuki Matsui 29 pre-arb 61 -0.3 5.5 -6.7
Tyler Wade 30 arb 60 -0.3 0.9 -2.2
Oscar Gonzalez 27 – 21 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Luis Campusano 26 pre-arb 10 -0.4 1.0 -2.4
Yuli Gurriel 41 – 16 -0.4 – –
Alek Jacob 27 pre-arb 29 -0.4 0.4 -2.0
Nestor Cortes↔ MIL 30 arb 6 -0.5 4.0 -5.9
Jason Heyward 35 – 34 -0.5 1.0 -3.0
Trenton Brooks 29 pre-arb 25 -0.5 0.2 -2.2
Martín Maldonado 38 – 64 -0.8 1.0 -4.0

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 of them (96%). 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.