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

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.2
WAB — wins above budget
-6.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
-65M
surplus $M (value/$)
30.2
roster fWAR
$191.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Matt Chapman 31 FA-elig 154 5.5 18.0 +4.8
Logan Webb 27 arb 33 4.4 8.0 +10.5
Patrick Bailey 25 pre-arb 121 4.3 0.7 +17.3
Blake Snell 31 FA-elig 20 3.1 32.0 -19.2
Tyler Fitzgerald 26 pre-arb 96 3.0 0.7 +11.8
Heliot Ramos 24 pre-arb 121 2.3 0.7 +8.9
Ryan Walker 28 pre-arb 76 1.7 0.7 +6.3
Mike Yastrzemski 33 arb 140 1.7 7.9 -1.0
LaMonte Wade Jr. 30 arb 117 1.3 3.5 +2.1
Michael Conforto 31 FA-elig 130 1.3 18.0 -12.5
Kyle Harrison 22 pre-arb 24 0.8 0.7 +2.7
Jorge Soler↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 93 0.7 6.5 -3.8
Tyler Rogers 33 arb 77 0.6 3.2 -0.8
Brett Wisely 25 pre-arb 91 0.6 0.7 +1.6
Landen Roupp 25 pre-arb 23 0.5 0.7 +1.5
Randy Rodríguez 24 pre-arb 35 0.5 0.7 +1.5
Jordan Hicks 27 FA-elig 29 0.5 6.5 -4.5
Erik Miller 26 pre-arb 73 0.4 0.7 +1.1
Casey Schmitt 25 pre-arb 40 0.4 0.7 +0.9
Thairo Estrada 28 arb 96 0.4 4.7 -3.0
Sean Hjelle 27 pre-arb 58 0.3 0.7 +0.5
Nick Ahmed↔ LAD 34 FA-elig 52 0.3 0.6 +0.5
Blake Sabol 26 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.7 +0.2
Mark Canha↔ DET 35 FA-elig 32 0.2 2.9 -2.1
Taylor Rogers 33 FA-elig 64 0.2 12.0 -11.3
Spencer Howard↔ CLE 27 – 7 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Hayden Birdsong 22 – 16 0.1 0.3 +0.1
Camilo Doval 26 arb 62 0.1 0.8 -0.3
Jung Hoo Lee 25 pre-arb 37 0.1 7.8 -7.4
Tristan Beck 28 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Robbie Ray 32 FA-elig 7 0.1 23.0 -22.8
Nick Avila 26 – 8 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Mike Baumann↔ ANA 28 arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Trevor McDonald 23 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Keaton Winn 26 pre-arb 12 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Raymond Burgos 25 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Derek Hill↔ MIA 28 – 5 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jakson Reetz 28 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Austin Warren 28 arb 6 -0.0 0.8 -1.0
David Villar 27 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Jerar Encarnacion 26 pre-arb 35 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Ryan McKenna↔ BAL 27 arb 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.8
Andrew Knapp 32 arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Mitch White↔ MIL 29 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Luke Jackson↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 36 -0.2 4.5 -5.2
Trenton Brooks 28 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.7 -1.4
Kai-Wei Teng 25 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.7 -1.5
Daulton Jefferies↔ PIT 28 arb 2 -0.2 0.2 -1.0
Donovan Walton 30 – 9 -0.2 – –
Austin Slater↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 43 -0.2 2.0 -2.9
Mason Black 24 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
Grant McCray 23 – 37 -0.3 0.2 -1.3
Spencer Bivens 30 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
Curt Casali 35 FA-elig 41 -0.4 1.0 -2.7
Tom Murphy 33 FA-elig 13 -0.5 4.0 -6.1
Wilmer Flores 32 FA-elig 71 -0.7 6.5 -9.2
Marco Luciano 22 pre-arb 27 -0.7 0.7 -3.6
Luis Matos 22 pre-arb 45 -0.8 0.7 -4.1

58 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 57 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 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.