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GM: Erik Neander (since 2017)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+24.2
WAB — wins above budget
+25.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
96–66 (0.593)
record · made playoffs
+102M
surplus $M (value/$)
49.7
roster fWAR
$59.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Charlie Morton 35 FA-elig 33 6.0 15.0 +4.5
Austin Meadows 24 pre-arb 138 4.3 0.6 +13.4
Tommy Pham 31 arb 145 3.4 4.1 +7.1
Willy Adames 23 pre-arb 152 3.3 0.6 +10.2
Blake Snell 26 arb 23 2.7 1.6 +7.2
Ryan Yarbrough 27 pre-arb 28 2.6 0.6 +8.1
Kevin Kiermaier 29 FA-elig 129 2.5 8.2 +0.0
Tyler Glasnow 25 arb 12 2.3 0.6 +6.9
Brandon Lowe 24 pre-arb 82 1.9 1.0 +5.4
Travis d'Arnaud↔ LAD 30 FA-elig 92 1.9 3.1 +3.2
Avisaíl García 28 FA-elig 125 1.9 3.5 +2.8
Ji Man Choi 28 arb 127 1.5 0.8 +4.1
Yandy Díaz 27 pre-arb 79 1.5 0.6 +4.3
Emilio Pagán 28 pre-arb 66 1.5 0.5 +4.3
Yonny Chirinos 25 pre-arb 26 1.4 0.6 +3.9
Ryne Stanek↔ MIA 27 pre-arb 41 1.0 0.4 +3.0
Nick Anderson↔ MIA 28 pre-arb 23 1.0 0.2 +3.2
Diego Castillo 25 pre-arb 65 1.0 0.6 +2.6
Chaz Roe 32 FA-elig 71 0.9 1.3 +1.6
Brendan McKay 23 – 18 0.8 0.2 +2.4
Andrew Kittredge 29 pre-arb 37 0.6 0.3 +1.7
Guillermo Heredia 28 arb 89 0.6 0.8 +1.2
Colin Poche 25 – 51 0.6 0.3 +1.6
Eric Sogard↔ TOR 33 FA-elig 37 0.6 0.1 +1.8
Mike Zunino 28 FA-elig 90 0.6 4.4 -2.5
Oliver Drake 32 arb 50 0.5 0.6 +1.2
Joey Wendle 29 arb 75 0.5 0.6 +1.1
Trevor Richards↔ MIA 26 pre-arb 7 0.4 0.1 +1.3
Mike Brosseau 25 – 51 0.4 – –
Michael Pérez 26 pre-arb 22 0.3 0.6 +0.4
Jalen Beeks 25 pre-arb 34 0.3 0.6 +0.3
Pete Fairbanks↔ TEX 25 – 13 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Daniel Robertson 25 pre-arb 74 0.2 0.6 +0.2
Austin Pruitt 29 pre-arb 14 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Hunter Wood↔ CLE 25 – 19 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Wilmer Font↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 10 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Cole Sulser 29 – 7 0.1 0.1 +0.4
José Alvarado 24 pre-arb 35 0.1 0.6 -0.1
Jesús Aguilar↔ MIL 29 arb 37 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Hoby Milner 28 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Nathaniel Lowe 23 – 50 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Christian Arroyo 24 – 16 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Anthony Banda 25 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Matt Duffy 28 arb 46 0.1 2.7 -2.5
Johnny Davis 29 pre-arb 8 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Casey Sadler↔ LAD 28 – 9 0.0 0.1 +0.1
José De León 26 arb 3 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Ian Gibaut↔ TEX 25 – 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Anthony Bemboom↔ ANA 29 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Adam Kolarek↔ LAD 30 pre-arb 54 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Nick Ciuffo 24 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Aaron Slegers 26 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Ricardo Pinto 25 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Jake Faria↔ MIL 25 – 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Andrew Velazquez↔ CLE 24 – 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Kean Wong↔ ANA 24 – 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Erik Kratz↔ SFG 39 – 6 -0.3 0.1 -0.9

57 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 56 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.