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

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+25.3
WAB — wins above budget
+26.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
99–63 (0.611)
record · made playoffs
+129M
surplus $M (value/$)
53.0
roster fWAR
$81.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yandy Díaz 31 FA-elig 137 5.0 6.0 +13.7
Zach Eflin 29 FA-elig 31 4.9 11.0 +8.4
Wander Franco 22 pre-arb 112 4.8 2.5 +16.6
Isaac Paredes 24 arb 143 4.2 0.7 +15.9
Josh Lowe 25 pre-arb 135 3.4 0.7 +12.8
Tyler Glasnow 29 FA-elig 21 3.2 5.3 +7.4
Randy Arozarena 28 arb 151 3.1 4.2 +8.2
Brandon Lowe 28 arb 109 2.9 5.2 +6.1
Jose Siri 27 pre-arb 101 2.6 0.7 +9.6
Luke Raley 28 pre-arb 118 2.3 0.7 +8.5
Shane McClanahan 26 pre-arb 21 1.9 0.7 +6.6
Drew Rasmussen 27 arb 8 1.5 0.7 +5.0
Harold Ramírez 28 arb 122 1.4 2.2 +3.4
Pete Fairbanks 29 arb 49 1.3 3.7 +1.7
Shawn Armstrong 32 FA-elig 39 1.3 1.2 +3.9
Kevin Kelly 25 – 57 1.2 0.7 +4.1
Robert Stephenson↔ PIT 30 FA-elig 42 1.2 1.2 +3.4
Zack Littell↔ BOS 27 arb 26 1.2 0.5 +4.0
Colin Poche 29 arb 66 1.1 1.2 +3.3
Aaron Civale↔ CLE 28 arb 10 1.0 1.1 +2.7
Taj Bradley 22 – 23 0.8 0.4 +2.9
Taylor Walls 26 pre-arb 99 0.7 0.7 +2.2
Jeffrey Springs 30 arb 3 0.7 4.0 -1.1
Jake Diekman↔ CHW 36 FA-elig 50 0.6 3.6 -1.3
Manuel Margot 28 FA-elig 99 0.5 7.0 -5.1
Jalen Beeks 29 arb 30 0.5 1.4 +0.5
Jason Adam 31 arb 56 0.4 1.8 -0.2
Christian Bethancourt 31 FA-elig 104 0.4 1.4 +0.1
Curtis Mead 22 – 24 0.3 0.2 +1.0
René Pinto 26 pre-arb 39 0.2 0.3 +0.6
Jacob Lopez 25 – 4 0.2 0.0 +0.8
Chris Devenski↔ ANA 32 FA-elig 9 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Elvin Rodríguez 25 – 1 0.2 0.0 +0.7
Tristan Gray 27 – 2 0.2 0.0 +0.6
Andrew Kittredge 33 FA-elig 14 0.1 2.1 -1.5
Jonathan Aranda 25 pre-arb 34 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Braden Bristo↔ DET 28 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Zack Burdi 28 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Raimel Tapia↔ BOS 29 FA-elig 5 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Junior Caminero 19 – 7 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Chase Anderson↔ COL 35 FA-elig 2 0.1 0.1 +0.2
José Lopez 24 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Calvin Faucher 27 pre-arb 17 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Heath Hembree 34 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Joe La Sorsa↔ WSN 25 – 2 0.0 – –
Hector Perez 27 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Garrett Cleavinger 29 arb 15 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Ryan Thompson↔ ARI 31 arb 18 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Luis Patiño↔ CHW 23 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Francisco Mejía 27 FA-elig 50 -0.1 2.2 -2.6
Erasmo Ramírez↔ WSN 33 FA-elig 15 -0.1 0.4 -0.9
Javy Guerra↔ MIL 27 arb 9 -0.2 0.4 -1.1
Osleivis Basabe 22 – 31 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Trevor Kelley 30 pre-arb 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Cooper Criswell 26 pre-arb 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.3
Yonny Chirinos↔ ATL 29 arb 15 -0.4 1.0 -2.4
Josh Fleming 27 arb 12 -0.5 0.7 -2.8
Vidal Bruján 25 pre-arb 37 -0.7 0.2 -3.0

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