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President of baseball ops: Erik Neander (since 2021)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.7
WAB — wins above budget
+2.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
+36M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.6
roster fWAR
$82.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Isaac Paredes↔ CHC 25 arb 101 2.9 2.2 +9.9
Zack Littell 28 FA-elig 29 2.3 1.9 +7.6
Brandon Lowe 29 FA-elig 107 2.2 8.8 +0.6
Yandy Díaz 32 FA-elig 145 1.9 8.0 +0.0
José Caballero 27 pre-arb 139 1.9 0.8 +7.3
Ryan Pepiot 26 pre-arb 26 1.9 0.7 +7.1
Zach Eflin↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 19 1.9 7.5 +0.3
Jose Siri 28 arb 130 1.8 0.8 +6.8
Edwin Uceta 26 arb 30 1.7 0.7 +6.2
Taj Bradley 23 pre-arb 25 1.5 0.7 +5.6
Richie Palacios 27 pre-arb 92 1.3 0.7 +4.7
Ben Rortvedt 26 arb 112 1.3 0.8 +4.6
Shane Baz 25 arb 14 1.1 0.7 +3.7
Randy Arozarena↔ SEA 29 arb 100 1.0 5.3 -0.9
Josh Lowe 26 arb 106 1.0 0.8 +3.3
Drew Rasmussen 28 arb 16 1.0 1.9 +2.2
Jonny DeLuca 25 pre-arb 107 0.8 0.7 +2.8
Kevin Kelly 26 pre-arb 68 0.8 0.7 +2.5
Amed Rosario↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 76 0.7 1.1 +1.7
Junior Caminero 20 pre-arb 43 0.7 0.7 +2.0
Jason Adam↔ SDP 32 FA-elig 47 0.6 1.7 +0.8
Pete Fairbanks 30 arb 46 0.6 3.7 -1.2
Shawn Armstrong↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 38 0.5 1.4 +0.6
Jeffrey Springs 31 FA-elig 7 0.4 5.2 -3.6
Jonathan Aranda 26 pre-arb 44 0.4 0.7 +0.9
Aaron Civale↔ MIL 29 arb 17 0.4 2.7 -1.1
Mason Montgomery 24 – 9 0.3 0.1 +1.2
Austin Shenton 26 pre-arb 19 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Hunter Bigge↔ CHC 26 – 15 0.2 0.1 +0.8
Manuel Rodríguez 27 arb 40 0.2 0.7 +0.2
Garrett Cleavinger 30 arb 68 0.2 0.7 -0.0
Cole Sulser↔ NYM 34 arb 6 0.1 0.1 +0.5
Justin Sterner 27 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Joel Kuhnel↔ HOU 29 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Logan Driscoll 26 – 15 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Richard Lovelady↔ CHC 28 arb 28 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Jacob Waguespack 30 arb 4 -0.0 1.2 -1.2
René Pinto 27 pre-arb 19 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Tyler Zuber 29 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Alex Jackson 28 arb 58 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Rob Brantly 34 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Jacob Lopez 26 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Taylor Walls 27 arb 84 -0.2 0.8 -1.4
Dylan Carlson↔ STL 25 arb 37 -0.2 0.9 -1.9
Kameron Misner 26 – 8 -0.2 0.1 -1.1
Curtis Mead 23 pre-arb 38 -0.3 0.7 -1.9
Niko Goodrum↔ ANA 32 – 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Colin Poche 30 arb 43 -0.3 2.4 -3.7
Harold Ramírez↔ WSN 29 arb 48 -0.4 2.5 -4.2
Erasmo Ramírez 34 FA-elig 13 -0.5 0.2 -2.4
Phil Maton↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 40 -0.6 3.5 -5.9
Tyler Alexander 29 arb 23 -0.6 1.9 -4.3
Chris Devenski 33 FA-elig 19 -0.7 1.0 -3.8
Christopher Morel↔ CHC 25 pre-arb 49 -0.8 0.2 -3.6

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.