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GM: Jack Zduriencik (since 2009)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.7
WAB — wins above budget
-11.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
67–95 (0.414)
record
-28M
surplus $M (value/$)
21.8
roster fWAR
$86.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Félix Hernández 25 FA-elig 33 5.2 11.7 +1.1
Michael Pineda 22 pre-arb 28 3.5 0.4 +8.2
Doug Fister↔ DET 27 pre-arb 21 3.3 0.3 +7.7
Dustin Ackley 23 – 90 3.0 1.5 +5.8
Brendan Ryan 29 arb 123 2.8 1.0 +6.0
Jason Vargas 28 FA-elig 32 2.6 2.5 +4.0
Erik Bedard↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 16 1.5 0.7 +2.9
Brandon League 28 FA-elig 65 1.3 2.2 +1.0
Franklin Gutierrez 28 FA-elig 92 1.1 4.3 -1.7
Blake Beavan 22 pre-arb 15 0.8 0.4 +1.5
Kyle Seager 23 – 53 0.6 0.4 +1.1
Casper Wells↔ DET 26 pre-arb 31 0.6 0.1 +1.4
Mike Carp 25 pre-arb 79 0.6 0.4 +1.0
Justin Smoak 24 pre-arb 123 0.6 0.4 +1.0
David Pauley↔ DET 28 arb 39 0.5 0.3 +1.0
Adam Kennedy 35 FA-elig 114 0.4 0.8 +0.3
Jack Wilson↔ ATL 33 FA-elig 62 0.4 3.9 -2.9
Alex Liddi 22 pre-arb 15 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Chris Gimenez 28 pre-arb 24 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Shawn Kelley 27 pre-arb 10 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Tom Wilhelmsen 27 pre-arb 25 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Chris Ray 29 FA-elig 29 0.2 1.0 -0.4
Josh Lueke 26 pre-arb 25 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Cesar Jimenez 26 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Ichiro Suzuki 37 FA-elig 161 0.0 18.0 -17.9
Charlie Furbush↔ DET 25 – 11 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Chance Ruffin↔ DET 22 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Jack Cust 32 FA-elig 67 -0.1 2.5 -2.7
Adam Moore 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Luis Antonio Rodriguez 31 FA-elig 44 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Wily Mo Peña↔ ARI 29 – 22 -0.1 – –
Steve Delabar 27 – 6 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Jamey Wright 36 FA-elig 60 -0.1 0.9 -1.2
Dan Cortes 24 – 10 -0.2 – –
Jeff Gray↔ CHW 29 – 24 -0.2 – –
Carlos Peguero 24 – 46 -0.2 – –
Josh Bard 33 FA-elig 26 -0.3 0.8 -1.4
Greg Halman 23 – 35 -0.3 – –
Mike Wilson 28 pre-arb 8 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Michael Saunders 24 pre-arb 58 -0.5 0.4 -1.5
Milton Bradley 33 FA-elig 28 -0.6 13.0 -14.4
Ryan Langerhans 31 FA-elig 19 -0.6 0.5 -1.9
Aaron Laffey↔ NYY 26 arb 36 -0.6 0.3 -1.9
Trayvon Robinson 23 pre-arb 44 -0.9 0.4 -2.7
Anthony Vasquez 24 – 7 -1.1 – –
Chone Figgins 33 FA-elig 81 -1.2 9.5 -12.3
Miguel Olivo 32 FA-elig 130 -1.2 2.5 -5.4

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (87%). 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 SEA
Jamie Moyer199628.0
Mike Cameron200019.8
J. P. Crawford201817.8
Freddy García199815.6
Franklin Gutiérrez200813.4
Mitch Haniger201611.1
Marco Gonzales201710.1
Luis Castillo20228.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Adam Jones200829.6
Jason Varitek199721.2
Shin-Soo Choo200619.2
Mike Hampton199319.2
Carlos Guillén200418.3
Derek Lowe199718.0
Freddy Peralta201517.3
Chris Taylor201616.9
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.