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GM: Erik Neander (since 2017)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+36.5 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+19.2 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
40–20 (0.667)
record · won pennant
+55M
surplus $M (value/$)
16.1
roster fWAR
$52.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brandon Lowe 25 pre-arb 56 2.2 1.5 +14.2
Kevin Kiermaier 30 FA-elig 49 1.4 10.2 -0.0
Mike Brosseau 26 – 37 1.3 – –
Willy Adames 24 pre-arb 54 1.2 0.2 +8.2
Tyler Glasnow 26 arb 11 1.1 2.0 +6.3
Joey Wendle 30 pre-arb 50 1.1 0.2 +8.0
Ryan Yarbrough 28 pre-arb 11 1.0 0.2 +6.9
Nick Anderson 29 pre-arb 19 1.0 0.2 +6.7
Charlie Morton 36 FA-elig 9 0.9 15.0 -8.5
Randy Arozarena 25 pre-arb 23 0.8 0.1 +5.4
Jalen Beeks 26 pre-arb 12 0.7 0.2 +5.1
Yandy Díaz 28 pre-arb 34 0.6 0.2 +4.0
Pete Fairbanks 26 pre-arb 27 0.6 0.2 +3.9
Blake Snell 27 arb 11 0.6 7.6 -3.5
Manuel Margot 25 arb 47 0.5 0.9 +2.7
Aaron Slegers 27 pre-arb 11 0.5 0.1 +3.4
John Curtiss 27 pre-arb 17 0.4 0.2 +2.6
Chaz Roe 33 FA-elig 10 0.3 2.2 +0.3
Josh Fleming 24 – 7 0.3 0.1 +2.3
Brett Phillips↔ KCR 26 pre-arb 17 0.3 0.1 +1.8
Kevan Smith 32 arb 17 0.2 0.1 +1.4
Aaron Loup 32 FA-elig 24 0.2 0.1 +1.3
Andrew Kittredge 30 pre-arb 8 0.2 0.2 +1.0
Nathaniel Lowe 24 pre-arb 21 0.2 0.1 +1.1
Ryan Thompson 28 – 25 0.1 0.2 +0.6
Ryan Sherriff 30 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.1 +0.7
Trevor Richards 27 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.1 +0.6
Yonny Chirinos 26 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.2 +0.4
Yoshi Tsutsugo 28 – 51 0.1 – –
Cody Reed↔ CIN 27 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Austin Meadows 25 pre-arb 36 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Brian O'Grady 28 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Ji Man Choi 29 – 42 0.0 – –
José A. Martínez↔ CHC 31 – 24 -0.0 – –
Diego Castillo 26 pre-arb 22 -0.0 0.2 -0.6
José Alvarado 25 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.2 -0.9
Oliver Drake 33 arb 11 -0.1 1.0 -1.9
Hunter Renfroe 28 arb 42 -0.1 3.3 -4.3
Anthony Banda 26 – 4 -0.2 0.1 -1.3
Sean Gilmartin 30 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -1.5
Mike Zunino 29 FA-elig 28 -0.2 4.5 -6.2
Michael Pérez 27 pre-arb 38 -0.3 0.2 -2.4
Edgar García 23 pre-arb 4 -0.4 0.0 -3.1

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (91%). 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.