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GM: Andrew Friedman (since 2006)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.1
WAB — wins above budget
+5.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
+25M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.7
roster fWAR
$76.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ben Zobrist 33 FA-elig 146 4.7 7.0 +6.7
Evan Longoria 28 FA-elig 162 3.6 7.5 +3.0
David Price↔ DET 28 FA-elig 23 3.2 9.5 -0.1
Chris Archer 25 pre-arb 32 2.9 0.5 +7.8
Kevin Kiermaier 24 – 108 2.8 0.4 +7.8
Desmond Jennings 27 arb 123 2.7 0.5 +7.4
Alex Cobb 26 arb 27 2.6 0.5 +7.0
Jake McGee 27 arb 73 2.5 1.4 +5.8
Jake Odorizzi 24 pre-arb 31 1.8 0.5 +4.6
Brandon Guyer 28 arb 97 1.7 0.5 +4.5
Matt Joyce 29 FA-elig 140 1.5 3.7 +0.6
Ryan Hanigan 33 FA-elig 84 1.5 2.8 +1.5
Drew Smyly↔ DET 25 pre-arb 7 1.2 0.1 +3.3
James Loney 30 FA-elig 155 0.9 1.0 +1.5
José Molina 39 FA-elig 80 0.8 1.8 +0.6
Brad Boxberger 26 pre-arb 63 0.8 0.4 +1.9
David DeJesus 34 FA-elig 83 0.5 4.2 -2.8
Joel Peralta 38 FA-elig 69 0.5 3.0 -1.7
Yunel Escobar 31 FA-elig 137 0.4 5.0 -3.8
Jeff Beliveau 27 pre-arb 30 0.4 0.2 +1.0
Alex Colomé 25 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.0 +0.7
Sean Rodríguez 29 FA-elig 96 0.2 1.5 -0.8
Jeremy Hellickson 27 arb 13 0.2 3.6 -3.1
Erik Bedard 35 – 17 0.1 1.1 -0.9
Cole Figueroa 27 pre-arb 23 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Nick Franklin↔ SEA 23 pre-arb 11 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Kirby Yates 27 – 37 0.0 0.3 -0.3
C.J. Riefenhauser 24 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Matt Moore 25 arb 2 -0.0 1.0 -1.1
Ali Solis 26 – 8 -0.1 – –
Curt Casali 25 – 30 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Logan Forsythe 27 arb 110 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Nate Karns 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Vince Belnome 26 – 4 -0.1 – –
Grant Balfour 36 FA-elig 65 -0.1 4.0 -4.4
Wil Myers 23 pre-arb 87 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Jerry Sands 26 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.3 -0.8
Heath Bell 36 FA-elig 13 -0.2 9.0 -9.6
Cesár Ramos 30 arb 43 -0.3 0.8 -1.5
Juan Carlos Oviedo 32 FA-elig 32 -0.3 1.5 -2.2
Brandon Gomes 29 arb 29 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Steve Geltz 26 pre-arb 11 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Josh Lueke 29 arb 25 -0.5 0.5 -2.0

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (95%). 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.