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President of baseball ops: Farhan Zaidi (since 2019) · GM: Pete Putila (since 2023)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.7
WAB — wins above budget
-7.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–83 (0.488)
record
-62M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.7
roster fWAR
$175.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Logan Webb 26 arb 33 4.9 4.6 +15.0
Thairo Estrada 27 arb 120 3.5 2.2 +11.6
Patrick Bailey 24 – 97 2.7 0.5 +10.1
Wilmer Flores 31 FA-elig 126 2.3 6.5 +2.6
J.D. Davis 30 FA-elig 144 2.1 4.2 +4.3
Camilo Doval 25 pre-arb 69 1.9 0.7 +6.9
LaMonte Wade Jr. 29 arb 135 1.9 1.4 +6.0
Alex Cobb 35 FA-elig 28 1.8 9.0 -1.7
Mike Yastrzemski 32 arb 106 1.7 6.1 +0.7
Sean Manaea 31 FA-elig 37 1.2 10.0 -5.4
Anthony DeSclafani 33 FA-elig 19 1.0 12.0 -8.0
Michael Conforto 30 FA-elig 125 0.8 18.0 -14.9
Jakob Junis 30 FA-elig 40 0.8 2.8 +0.2
Joc Pederson 31 FA-elig 121 0.7 19.6 -16.7
Scott Alexander 33 FA-elig 55 0.7 1.2 +1.5
Austin Slater 30 FA-elig 89 0.7 3.2 -0.5
Ryan Walker 27 – 49 0.7 0.5 +2.1
Tyler Rogers 32 arb 68 0.6 1.7 +0.7
Tristan Beck 27 – 33 0.5 0.5 +1.4
Blake Sabol 25 – 110 0.4 0.7 +0.8
Brandon Crawford 36 FA-elig 94 0.4 16.0 -14.5
Luke Jackson 31 FA-elig 33 0.4 3.0 -1.6
John Brebbia 33 FA-elig 40 0.3 1.1 +0.2
Taylor Rogers 32 FA-elig 60 0.3 9.0 -7.8
Alex Wood 32 FA-elig 29 0.2 12.5 -11.6
Keaton Winn 25 – 9 0.2 0.2 +0.7
Tyler Fitzgerald 25 – 10 0.2 0.0 +0.7
Marco Luciano 21 – 14 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Sean Hjelle 26 pre-arb 15 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Darin Ruf↔ MIL 36 FA-elig 9 0.0 1.4 -1.2
Cole Waites 25 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Joey Bart 26 arb 30 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Austin Wynns↔ COL 32 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Mauricio Llovera↔ BOS 27 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Matt Beaty↔ KCR 30 arb 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Cal Stevenson 26 – 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Roberto Pérez 34 FA-elig 5 -0.1 2.5 -2.8
Mark Mathias↔ PIT 28 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Bryce Johnson 27 pre-arb 30 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Kyle Harrison 21 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Heliot Ramos 23 pre-arb 25 -0.1 0.4 -1.0
Wade Meckler 23 – 20 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Johan Camargo 29 arb 8 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Paul DeJong↔ STL 29 FA-elig 18 -0.2 1.5 -2.2
Ross Stripling 33 FA-elig 22 -0.2 10.0 -10.8
AJ Pollock↔ SEA 35 FA-elig 5 -0.3 0.6 -1.7
Isan Díaz↔ DET 27 – 6 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
David Villar 26 pre-arb 46 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
Luis Matos 21 – 76 -0.4 0.4 -2.0
Brett Wisely 24 – 51 -0.4 0.3 -2.0
Casey Schmitt 24 – 90 -0.6 0.5 -2.7
Mitch Haniger 32 FA-elig 61 -0.7 8.0 -10.6

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 SFG
Jeff Kent199630.9
Jason Schmidt200123.6
Rich Aurilia199419.8
Shawn Estes199514.8
Robb Nen199712.9
Liván Hernández199911.6
Mike Yastrzemski201911.3
Randy Winn200510.9
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Bryan Reynolds201820.0
Liván Hernández200317.2
Joe Nathan200314.1
Zack Wheeler201113.0
Francisco Liriano200312.5
John Burkett199411.0
Jack Clark198510.1
Rob Deer19857.9
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.