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GM: Erik Neander (since 2017)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.2
WAB — wins above budget
+6.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
+36M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.6
roster fWAR
$81.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chris Archer 28 arb 34 4.5 4.9 +10.4
Steven Souza Jr. 28 arb 148 3.7 0.5 +11.8
Kevin Kiermaier 27 arb 98 3.5 3.2 +8.6
Logan Morrison 29 FA-elig 149 3.0 2.5 +7.5
Corey Dickerson 28 arb 150 2.4 3.0 +5.1
Evan Longoria 31 FA-elig 156 2.4 13.0 -5.0
Alex Cobb 29 FA-elig 29 2.1 4.2 +3.0
Blake Snell 24 pre-arb 24 1.8 0.5 +5.4
Jake Faria 23 – 16 1.3 0.3 +4.0
Adeiny Hechavarría↔ MIA 28 arb 77 1.2 3.5 +0.7
Alex Colomé 28 arb 65 1.2 0.5 +3.5
Tommy Hunter 30 FA-elig 61 1.1 1.4 +2.5
Tim Beckham↔ BAL 27 arb 87 1.1 0.6 +3.1
Colby Rasmus 30 FA-elig 37 1.0 5.0 -1.8
Jesús Sucre 29 arb 63 1.0 0.6 +2.6
Steve Cishek↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 26 0.7 3.2 -0.7
José Alvarado 22 – 35 0.7 0.3 +2.2
Chase Whitley 28 pre-arb 41 0.6 0.4 +1.8
Sergio Romo↔ LAD 34 FA-elig 25 0.6 1.4 +0.7
Wilson Ramos 29 FA-elig 64 0.6 4.0 -2.0
Erasmo Ramírez↔ SEA 27 arb 26 0.6 2.2 -0.3
Austin Pruitt 27 pre-arb 31 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Mallex Smith 24 pre-arb 81 0.6 0.5 +1.3
Matt Andriese 27 pre-arb 18 0.5 0.5 +1.1
Brad Boxberger 29 arb 30 0.3 1.6 -0.5
Daniel Robertson 23 pre-arb 75 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Shane Peterson 29 pre-arb 30 0.3 0.2 +0.7
Curt Casali 28 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Danny Farquhar↔ CHW 30 FA-elig 37 0.2 0.6 -0.1
Jumbo Diaz 33 arb 31 0.1 0.6 -0.1
Chaz Roe↔ ATL 30 arb 9 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Jake Odorizzi 27 arb 28 0.1 4.1 -3.8
Taylor Featherston 27 pre-arb 17 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Derek Norris 28 arb 53 0.1 1.2 -1.0
Andrew Kittredge 27 – 15 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Rickie Weeks Jr. 34 FA-elig 37 0.0 1.5 -1.4
Hunter Wood 23 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Brad Miller 27 arb 110 0.0 3.6 -3.5
César Puello↔ ANA 26 pre-arb 16 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Lucas Duda↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 52 -0.0 3.0 -3.0
Diego Moreno 29 – 5 -0.0 0.2 -0.4
Peter Bourjos 30 FA-elig 100 -0.1 1.4 -1.5
Chih-Wei Hu 23 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Justin Marks 29 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Dan Jennings↔ CHW 30 arb 29 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Danny Espinosa↔ ANA 30 FA-elig 8 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
José De León 24 – 1 -0.2 – –
Ryan Garton↔ SEA 27 – 7 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Adam Kolarek 28 – 12 -0.3 0.1 -1.3
Ryne Stanek 25 – 21 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Michael Martinez↔ CLE 34 FA-elig 13 -0.5 0.3 -1.9
Xavier Cedeño 30 FA-elig 9 -0.9 1.3 -4.4
Trevor Plouffe↔ OAK 31 FA-elig 42 -1.0 2.2 -5.5

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 52 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.