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GM: Erik Neander (since 2017)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+20.3
WAB — wins above budget
+20.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record
+96M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.3
roster fWAR
$50.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Blake Snell 25 pre-arb 31 4.8 0.6 +15.9
Joey Wendle 28 pre-arb 139 3.9 0.5 +12.9
Mallex Smith 25 pre-arb 141 3.2 0.6 +10.4
Daniel Robertson 24 pre-arb 88 2.8 0.5 +9.1
Tommy Pham↔ STL 30 arb 39 2.7 0.2 +8.9
Matt Duffy 27 arb 132 2.4 0.9 +7.4
Wilson Ramos↔ PHI 30 FA-elig 78 2.4 6.0 +2.1
C.J. Cron 28 arb 140 2.3 2.3 +5.6
José Alvarado 23 pre-arb 70 2.1 0.5 +6.5
Chris Archer↔ PIT 29 FA-elig 17 1.8 4.0 +2.0
Kevin Kiermaier 28 arb 88 1.5 5.7 -0.4
Willy Adames 22 – 85 1.2 0.3 +3.8
Ryne Stanek 26 pre-arb 59 1.2 0.4 +3.7
Yonny Chirinos 24 pre-arb 18 1.2 0.5 +3.5
Diego Castillo 24 – 43 1.1 0.3 +3.3
Ji Man Choi↔ MIL 27 pre-arb 49 1.1 0.7 +2.9
Adam Kolarek 29 pre-arb 31 0.9 0.2 +2.8
Brandon Lowe 23 – 43 0.9 0.2 +2.8
Ryan Yarbrough 26 pre-arb 38 0.8 0.5 +2.3
Nathan Eovaldi↔ BOS 28 FA-elig 11 0.7 1.0 +1.5
Denard Span↔ SEA 34 FA-elig 43 0.6 3.5 -1.4
Matt Andriese↔ ARI 28 – 27 0.6 0.4 +1.7
Alex Colomé↔ SEA 29 arb 23 0.6 1.7 +0.2
Tyler Glasnow↔ PIT 24 pre-arb 11 0.5 0.1 +1.7
Sergio Romo 35 FA-elig 73 0.5 2.5 -0.9
Hunter Wood 24 pre-arb 31 0.5 0.3 +1.3
Wilmer Font↔ LAD 28 FA-elig 9 0.4 0.3 +1.1
Carlos Gómez 32 FA-elig 118 0.4 4.0 -2.6
Adeiny Hechavarría↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 61 0.4 3.8 -2.6
Johnny Field↔ MIN 26 – 63 0.3 0.3 +0.8
Christian Arroyo 23 pre-arb 20 0.3 0.2 +0.8
Anthony Banda 24 pre-arb 3 0.3 0.0 +0.8
Chaz Roe 31 pre-arb 61 0.2 0.7 +0.1
Andrew Velazquez 23 – 13 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Michael Pérez 25 – 24 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Austin Pruitt 28 pre-arb 23 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Brad Miller↔ MIL 28 arb 48 0.1 2.9 -2.5
Chih-Wei Hu 24 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Jonny Venters↔ ATL 33 – 22 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Adam Moore 34 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Austin Meadows↔ PIT 23 – 10 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Jake Faria 24 pre-arb 17 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Jake Bauers 22 – 96 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Brandon Snyder 31 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Justin Williams 22 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Ryan Weber 27 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jalen Beeks↔ BOS 24 – 12 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Vidal Nuño 30 arb 17 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Nick Ciuffo 23 – 16 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Rob Refsnyder 27 pre-arb 40 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Jaime Schultz 27 – 22 -0.2 0.2 -1.0
Hoby Milner↔ PHI 27 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Andrew Kittredge 28 pre-arb 33 -0.4 0.3 -1.6
Jesús Sucre 30 arb 73 -0.9 0.9 -4.1

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.