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President of baseball ops: Erik Neander (since 2021)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.6
WAB — wins above budget
+7.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
+59M
surplus $M (value/$)
31.0
roster fWAR
$61.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Junior Caminero 21 pre-arb 154 4.6 0.8 +16.7
Yandy Díaz 33 FA-elig 150 3.0 10.0 +1.5
Drew Rasmussen 29 arb 31 2.5 2.2 +7.5
Jonathan Aranda 27 pre-arb 106 2.5 0.8 +8.9
Ryan Pepiot 27 pre-arb 31 2.0 0.8 +7.0
Shane Baz 26 pre-arb 31 2.0 1.4 +6.1
Jake Mangum 29 – 118 1.8 0.8 +6.3
Brandon Lowe 30 FA-elig 134 1.7 10.5 -4.1
Taj Bradley↔ MIN 24 – 21 1.5 0.4 +5.4
Ian Seymour 26 – 19 1.1 0.4 +3.8
Pete Fairbanks 31 arb 61 1.0 3.8 -0.1
José Caballero↔ NYY 28 – 86 0.9 0.4 +3.2
Zack Littell↔ CIN 29 – 22 0.9 2.7 +0.7
Edwin Uceta 27 pre-arb 70 0.9 0.8 +2.5
Danny Jansen↔ MIL 30 – 73 0.8 4.3 -1.1
Garrett Cleavinger 31 arb 67 0.7 1.2 +1.6
Chandler Simpson 24 – 109 0.7 0.6 +2.2
Manuel Rodríguez 28 pre-arb 31 0.7 0.8 +1.8
Jonny DeLuca 26 pre-arb 20 0.6 0.8 +1.5
Mason Englert 25 pre-arb 30 0.6 0.3 +1.8
Adrian Houser↔ CHW 32 arb 10 0.6 0.3 +1.9
Joe Boyle 25 pre-arb 13 0.5 0.3 +1.5
Nick Fortes↔ MIA 28 pre-arb 38 0.4 0.5 +1.1
Cole Sulser 35 arb 18 0.4 0.6 +0.8
Curtis Mead↔ CHW 24 – 49 0.3 0.4 +1.0
Eric Orze 27 pre-arb 33 0.3 0.4 +0.9
Kameron Misner 27 pre-arb 71 0.3 0.4 +0.9
Mason Montgomery 25 pre-arb 57 0.3 0.6 +0.4
Taylor Walls 28 arb 101 0.3 1.4 -0.4
Bryan Baker↔ BAL 30 pre-arb 31 0.2 0.2 +0.8
Griffin Jax↔ MIN 30 arb 23 0.2 0.5 +0.3
Tristan Gray 29 pre-arb 30 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Ha-Seong Kim↔ ATL 29 – 24 0.1 5.6 -5.2
Jesse Scholtens 31 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Connor Seabold↔ ATL 29 – 3 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Richie Palacios 28 – 17 0.1 – –
Travis Jankowski↔ CHW 34 – 14 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Matt Thaiss↔ CHW 30 arb 25 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Joe Rock 24 – 3 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Brian Van Belle 28 – 4 0.0 – –
Joey Gerber 28 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Forrest Whitley↔ HOU 27 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Coco Montes 28 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Garrett Acton 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Cole Wilcox 25 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Christopher Morel 26 pre-arb 105 -0.1 0.8 -1.2
Josh Lowe 27 pre-arb 108 -0.1 0.8 -1.2
Hunter Bigge 27 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.8 -1.6
Paul Gervase↔ LAD 25 – 5 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Carson Williams 22 – 32 -0.3 0.2 -1.3
Bob Seymour 26 – 26 -0.3 – –
Tristan Peters 25 – 4 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Hunter Feduccia↔ LAD 28 pre-arb 36 -0.4 0.2 -1.8
Everson Pereira 24 pre-arb 23 -0.5 0.2 -2.1
Kevin Kelly 27 pre-arb 41 -0.5 0.7 -2.7
Ben Rortvedt↔ LAD 27 – 26 -0.7 0.5 -2.9

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 53 of them (95%). 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.