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President of baseball ops: Erik Neander (since 2021) · GM: Peter Bendix (since 2022)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+11.0
WAB — wins above budget
+8.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record · made playoffs
+47M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.7
roster fWAR
$83.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yandy Díaz 30 arb 137 3.9 2.8 +11.4
Shane McClanahan 25 pre-arb 29 3.6 0.7 +12.5
Corey Kluber 36 FA-elig 31 3.1 8.0 +3.3
Jeffrey Springs 29 arb 33 3.1 0.9 +10.2
Drew Rasmussen 26 pre-arb 28 3.0 0.7 +10.1
Randy Arozarena 27 pre-arb 153 2.7 0.7 +9.1
Isaac Paredes 23 pre-arb 111 2.3 0.6 +7.7
Wander Franco 21 pre-arb 83 2.3 1.5 +6.8
Manuel Margot 27 FA-elig 89 1.3 5.6 -0.7
Jason Adam 30 arb 67 1.3 0.9 +3.8
Harold Ramírez 27 pre-arb 120 1.3 0.7 +3.9
Pete Fairbanks 28 pre-arb 24 1.2 0.7 +3.8
Christian Bethancourt↔ OAK 30 pre-arb 45 1.2 0.2 +4.2
Jose Siri↔ HOU 26 pre-arb 56 1.2 0.2 +4.0
Ji Man Choi 31 FA-elig 113 1.0 3.2 +0.5
Brooks Raley 34 FA-elig 60 1.0 4.2 -0.7
Kevin Kiermaier 32 FA-elig 63 1.0 12.2 -8.6
J.P. Feyereisen 29 pre-arb 22 1.0 0.7 +2.8
Brandon Lowe 27 arb 65 0.6 4.0 -1.8
Jalen Beeks 28 arb 42 0.6 0.8 +1.4
Shawn Armstrong↔ MIA 31 FA-elig 43 0.5 0.6 +1.3
Garrett Cleavinger↔ LAD 28 pre-arb 13 0.5 0.1 +1.6
Ryan Thompson 30 pre-arb 47 0.4 0.7 +0.8
Yu Chang↔ BOS 26 – 36 0.4 – –
Francisco Mejía 26 arb 93 0.3 1.5 -0.5
Roman Quinn↔ PHI 29 arb 21 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Phoenix Sanders 27 – 8 0.2 0.2 +0.7
Matt Wisler 29 FA-elig 39 0.2 2.2 -1.4
Yonny Chirinos 28 arb 2 0.2 1.2 -0.5
David Peralta↔ ARI 34 FA-elig 47 0.2 2.6 -2.0
Kevin Herget 31 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Josh Lowe 24 pre-arb 52 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Tyler Glasnow 28 FA-elig 2 0.1 5.1 -4.6
Cooper Criswell 25 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Robert Dugger↔ CIN 26 – 1 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Shane Baz 23 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.7 -0.3
René Pinto 25 – 25 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Ryan Yarbrough 30 arb 20 0.1 3.9 -3.6
Cristofer Ogando 28 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Easton McGee 24 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Luke Bard↔ NYY 31 – 8 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Luke Raley 27 pre-arb 22 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Brett Phillips↔ BAL 28 arb 75 -0.0 1.3 -1.4
JT Chargois 31 pre-arb 21 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Josh Fleming 26 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
David McKay↔ NYY 27 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Andrew Kittredge 32 arb 17 -0.1 1.9 -2.4
Jimmy Yacabonis↔ MIA 30 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Miles Mastrobuoni 26 – 8 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Jonathan Aranda 24 – 32 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Colin Poche 28 pre-arb 65 -0.2 0.6 -1.4
Tommy Romero↔ WSN 24 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Javy Guerra↔ SDP 26 pre-arb 17 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Calvin Faucher 26 – 22 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Dusten Knight 31 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Mike Zunino 31 FA-elig 36 -0.3 7.0 -8.0
Ralph Garza Jr. 28 – 19 -0.3 – –
Chris Mazza 32 – 2 -0.5 0.3 -2.0
Taylor Walls 25 pre-arb 142 -0.5 0.7 -2.5
Vidal Bruján 24 pre-arb 52 -0.6 0.3 -2.5
Luis Patiño 22 pre-arb 6 -0.6 0.5 -2.7

61 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 59 of them (97%). 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.