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GM: Matt Silverman (since 2015)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.0
WAB — wins above budget
+3.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
+33M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.1
roster fWAR
$58.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Evan Longoria 30 FA-elig 160 4.2 11.5 +2.2
Kevin Kiermaier 26 arb 105 3.8 0.5 +12.0
Chris Archer 27 arb 33 2.9 2.9 +6.4
Logan Forsythe 29 arb 127 2.8 2.2 +6.9
Matt Andriese 26 pre-arb 29 1.9 0.4 +5.8
Jake Odorizzi 26 arb 33 1.9 0.5 +5.5
Drew Smyly 27 arb 30 1.8 3.8 +2.1
Blake Snell 23 – 19 1.8 0.3 +5.4
Steve Pearce↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 60 1.5 3.4 +1.4
Brad Miller 26 arb 152 1.4 0.5 +3.9
Steven Souza Jr. 27 pre-arb 120 1.1 0.5 +3.2
Alex Colomé 27 arb 57 1.1 0.5 +2.9
Matt Moore↔ SFG 27 arb 21 1.0 3.2 +0.2
Xavier Cedeño 29 arb 54 0.9 0.5 +2.3
Logan Morrison 28 FA-elig 107 0.7 4.2 -2.1
Brandon Guyer↔ CLE 30 arb 63 0.7 0.7 +1.4
Corey Dickerson 27 arb 148 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Tim Beckham 26 arb 64 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Curt Casali 27 pre-arb 84 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Nick Franklin 25 pre-arb 60 0.4 0.2 +1.1
Dylan Floro 25 – 12 0.4 0.1 +1.0
Luke Maile 25 pre-arb 42 0.3 0.2 +0.8
Desmond Jennings 29 FA-elig 65 0.3 3.3 -2.4
Bobby Wilson↔ DET 33 arb 28 0.3 0.1 +0.7
Chase Whitley 27 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Tyler Sturdevant 30 – 16 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Ryan Garton 26 – 37 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Matt Duffy↔ SFG 25 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Richie Shaffer 25 pre-arb 20 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Ryan Webb 30 FA-elig 18 0.0 1.0 -0.9
Alexei Ramirez↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 17 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Eddie Gamboa 31 – 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jhan Mariñez↔ MIL 27 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Hank Conger 28 FA-elig 49 -0.1 1.5 -1.7
Juniel Querecuto 23 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Alex Cobb 28 arb 5 -0.1 4.0 -4.3
Oswaldo Arcia↔ MIA 25 arb 21 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Justin Marks 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Enny Romero 25 arb 52 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Taylor Motter 26 – 34 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Brad Boxberger 28 arb 27 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Danny Farquhar 29 arb 35 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Jaff Decker 26 pre-arb 19 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Kevin Jepsen↔ MIN 31 FA-elig 25 -0.4 2.3 -3.7
Dana Eveland 32 FA-elig 33 -0.5 0.9 -2.4
Erasmo Ramírez 26 arb 64 -0.5 2.4 -3.9
Steve Geltz 28 arb 27 -0.9 0.5 -3.3
Mikie Mahtook 26 pre-arb 65 -1.0 0.5 -3.9

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.