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GM: Andrew Friedman (since 2006)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.1
WAB — wins above budget
+17.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
84–78 (0.519)
record
+48M
surplus $M (value/$)
47.7
roster fWAR
$66.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ben Zobrist 28 arb 152 8.7 0.4 +20.2
Evan Longoria 23 pre-arb 157 7.2 0.6 +16.5
Carl Crawford 27 FA-elig 156 5.9 8.2 +5.8
Jason Bartlett 29 arb 137 5.3 2.0 +10.5
James Shields 27 arb 33 3.4 1.5 +6.5
Carlos Pena 31 FA-elig 135 2.8 8.0 -1.3
Matt Garza 25 arb 32 2.8 0.4 +6.1
Jeff Niemann 26 pre-arb 31 2.7 1.3 +5.2
B.J. Upton 24 arb 144 2.3 0.4 +5.1
Gregg Zaun↔ BAL 38 FA-elig 34 1.2 0.6 +2.3
David Price 23 pre-arb 23 1.2 0.8 +2.0
Wade Davis 23 pre-arb 6 1.0 0.4 +2.1
Akinori Iwamura 30 pre-arb 69 1.0 3.2 -1.0
Scott Kazmir↔ ANA 25 arb 20 0.9 4.6 -2.4
Gabe Kapler 33 FA-elig 99 0.9 1.0 +1.1
J.P. Howell 26 arb 69 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Grant Balfour 31 FA-elig 73 0.7 1.4 +0.3
Gabe Gross 29 arb 115 0.6 1.3 +0.1
Dioner Navarro 25 arb 115 0.3 2.1 -1.4
Reid Brignac 23 pre-arb 31 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Willy Aybar 26 arb 105 0.3 1.0 -0.3
Lance Cormier 28 arb 53 0.2 0.7 -0.2
Joe Dillon 33 – 15 0.2 – –
Randy Choate 33 FA-elig 61 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Andy Sonnanstine 26 pre-arb 25 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Dan Wheeler 31 FA-elig 69 0.1 3.2 -3.0
Chad Bradford 34 FA-elig 20 0.1 3.7 -3.5
Jason Isringhausen 36 FA-elig 9 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Winston Abreu↔ CLE 32 – 2 0.0 – –
Dale Thayer 28 pre-arb 11 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Shawn Riggans 28 arb 7 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Michel Hernandez 30 – 35 -0.1 – –
Russ Springer↔ OAK 40 FA-elig 26 -0.2 1.2 -1.6
Matt Joyce 24 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Jeff Bennett↔ ATL 29 arb 11 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Fernando Perez 26 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.4 -1.1
Brian Shouse 40 FA-elig 45 -0.3 1.4 -2.0
Troy Percival 39 FA-elig 14 -0.3 4.4 -5.2
Chris Richard 35 – 13 -0.3 – –
Joe Nelson 34 FA-elig 42 -0.5 1.3 -2.4
Pat Burrell 32 FA-elig 122 -0.7 7.0 -8.7

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (90%). 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 TBR
Ben Zobrist200633.1
Yandy Díaz201819.5
Chris Archer201116.9
Scott Kazmir200415.0
Matt Joyce200810.7
Tyler Glasnow20189.3
Drew Rasmussen20219.1
Joey Wendle20178.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Bobby Abreu199745.3
Germán Márquez201619.1
Cristopher Sánchez201916.2
Jake Cronenworth201914.8
Joe Ryan202113.4
Nathaniel Lowe202010.8
Merrill Kelly201910.7
Blake Snell20209.8
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.