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GM: Andrew Friedman (since 2006)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+16.4
WAB — wins above budget
+15.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–71 (0.564)
record · made playoffs
+54M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.1
roster fWAR
$61.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Evan Longoria 27 arb 160 5.5 6.0 +8.7
Ben Zobrist 32 FA-elig 157 4.2 5.5 +5.8
David Price 27 arb 27 3.9 10.1 +0.3
Desmond Jennings 26 arb 139 3.0 0.5 +7.7
Yunel Escobar 30 FA-elig 153 3.0 5.0 +3.1
José Molina 38 FA-elig 99 2.6 1.5 +5.5
Wil Myers 22 – 88 2.3 0.3 +5.9
Alex Cobb 25 pre-arb 22 2.2 0.5 +5.5
James Loney 29 FA-elig 158 2.2 2.0 +4.0
Matt Joyce 28 arb 140 2.0 2.5 +3.0
Matt Moore 24 pre-arb 27 1.7 1.0 +3.5
Jose Lobatón 28 arb 100 1.7 0.5 +4.0
Jeremy Hellickson 26 arb 32 1.3 0.5 +3.1
Alex Torres 25 pre-arb 39 1.3 0.3 +3.1
Fernando Rodney 36 FA-elig 68 1.2 2.5 +0.7
Kelly Johnson 31 FA-elig 118 1.1 2.5 +0.5
Chris Archer 24 pre-arb 23 1.1 0.3 +2.6
Sean Rodríguez 28 arb 96 0.9 1.0 +1.4
Jamey Wright 38 FA-elig 66 0.5 0.9 +0.4
Jake McGee 26 arb 71 0.5 0.5 +0.7
Joel Peralta 37 FA-elig 80 0.5 3.0 -1.8
Luke Scott 35 FA-elig 91 0.4 2.8 -1.7
Jake Odorizzi 23 pre-arb 7 0.3 0.1 +0.6
David DeJesus↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 35 0.3 1.2 -0.5
Ryan Roberts 32 FA-elig 60 0.2 3.0 -2.4
Delmon Young↔ PHI 27 FA-elig 23 0.2 0.2 +0.2
Brandon Gomes 28 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Cesár Ramos 29 arb 48 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Tim Beckham 23 – 5 0.1 0.0 +0.1
Wesley Wright↔ HOU 28 arb 16 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Freddy Guzman 32 – 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Kevin Kiermaier 23 – 1 0.0 – –
Jason Bourgeois 31 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jeff Beliveau 26 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Enny Romero 22 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Alex Colomé 24 – 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Josh Lueke 28 pre-arb 19 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Roberto Hernandez 32 FA-elig 32 -0.1 3.2 -3.4
Chris Gimenez 30 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Kyle Farnsworth↔ PIT 37 FA-elig 39 -0.1 1.0 -1.4
Shelley Duncan 33 FA-elig 20 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Sam Fuld 31 FA-elig 119 -0.5 0.7 -2.2

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 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 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.