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GM: Matt Silverman (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.7
WAB — wins above budget
+6.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
+35M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.3
roster fWAR
$72.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chris Archer 26 arb 34 5.0 1.2 +14.7
Kevin Kiermaier 25 pre-arb 151 4.3 0.5 +12.9
Logan Forsythe 28 arb 153 4.1 1.1 +11.7
Evan Longoria 29 FA-elig 160 3.8 11.0 +1.0
Jake Odorizzi 25 arb 28 2.8 0.5 +8.4
Asdrúbal Cabrera 29 FA-elig 143 2.6 7.5 +0.7
Erasmo Ramírez 25 arb 34 2.3 0.5 +6.7
Brandon Guyer 29 arb 128 1.9 0.5 +5.6
Alex Colomé 26 pre-arb 43 1.8 0.5 +5.0
Nate Karns 27 pre-arb 27 1.6 0.5 +4.5
Mikie Mahtook 25 – 41 1.5 0.2 +4.6
Steven Souza Jr. 26 pre-arb 110 1.5 0.5 +4.2
Curt Casali 26 pre-arb 38 1.2 0.3 +3.4
Jake McGee 28 arb 39 1.1 3.5 -0.1
Drew Smyly 26 arb 12 1.0 2.6 +0.5
Xavier Cedeño↔ WSN 28 arb 61 0.7 0.5 +1.7
John Jaso 31 FA-elig 70 0.7 3.2 -1.0
J.P. Arencibia 29 arb 24 0.6 0.1 +1.6
Enny Romero 24 pre-arb 23 0.4 0.2 +1.1
Matt Andriese 25 pre-arb 25 0.4 0.5 +0.7
David DeJesus↔ ANA 35 FA-elig 82 0.4 3.7 -2.5
Joey Butler 29 pre-arb 88 0.3 0.4 +0.6
Desmond Jennings 28 arb 28 0.3 3.1 -2.2
Matt Moore 26 arb 12 0.3 3.0 -2.2
Richie Shaffer 24 – 31 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Steve Geltz 27 pre-arb 70 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Daniel Nava↔ BOS 32 arb 31 0.1 1.0 -0.5
Grady Sizemore↔ PHI 32 FA-elig 58 0.1 1.2 -0.8
Ryan Brett 23 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.0 +0.4
José Domínguez 24 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Ronald Belisario 32 – 6 0.0 – –
Tim Beckham 25 pre-arb 83 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Everett Teaford 31 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Preston Guilmet↔ MIL 27 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Brad Boxberger 27 arb 69 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
Kevin Jepsen↔ MIN 30 FA-elig 46 -0.1 1.9 -2.1
Jeff Beliveau 28 arb 5 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Marc Krauss↔ ANA 27 – 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
Bobby Wilson↔ TEX 32 FA-elig 25 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Grant Balfour 37 – 6 -0.2 7.0 -7.6
Luke Maile 24 – 15 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
C.J. Riefenhauser 25 pre-arb 17 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Allan Dykstra 28 – 13 -0.3 0.0 -1.0
Andrew Bellatti 23 – 17 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Brandon Gomes 30 pre-arb 64 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
René Rivera 31 FA-elig 110 -0.4 1.2 -2.6
Ernesto Frieri 29 FA-elig 22 -0.5 0.8 -2.5
Kirby Yates 28 pre-arb 20 -0.7 0.5 -2.8
Nick Franklin 24 pre-arb 44 -0.8 1.0 -3.7
Jake Elmore 28 pre-arb 51 -1.0 0.2 -3.3
James Loney 31 FA-elig 104 -1.1 8.7 -12.2

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 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.