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President of baseball ops: Chris Young (since 2023) · GM: Ross Fenstermaker (since 2025)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.7 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-2.7 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
30–31 (0.492)
record
+126M
surplus $M (value/$)
33.9
roster fWAR
$175.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ezequiel Duran 27 arb 53 4.6 1.4 +41.6
Josh Jung 28 arb 56 4.6 2.9 +39.9
MacKenzie Gore 27 arb 12 3.1 5.6 +23.4
Jacob deGrom 38 FA-elig 12 3.0 38.0 -10.3
Evan Carter 23 pre-arb 58 2.6 0.8 +22.9
Brandon Nimmo 33 FA-elig 59 2.5 15.2 +8.3
Jack Leiter 26 pre-arb 12 2.3 0.8 +20.8
Jacob Latz 30 pre-arb 22 2.3 0.8 +20.5
Jakob Junis 33 – 23 1.9 – –
Kumar Rocker 26 pre-arb 11 1.8 0.8 +16.2
Nathan Eovaldi 36 FA-elig 12 1.8 29.0 -12.2
Joc Pederson 34 FA-elig 57 1.7 18.5 -2.8
Jake Burger 30 arb 59 1.4 3.2 +9.6
Wyatt Langford 24 pre-arb 20 1.0 0.8 +8.5
Justin Foscue 27 pre-arb 21 0.8 0.6 +7.1
Tyler Alexander 31 FA-elig 27 0.7 1.1 +5.2
Cal Quantrill 31 FA-elig 10 0.6 0.9 +4.8
Peyton Gray 31 – 12 0.5 0.7 +4.4
Corey Seager 32 FA-elig 42 0.5 31.5 -27.1
Kyle Higashioka 36 FA-elig 30 0.4 6.8 -2.9
Nicky Lopez↔ CHC 31 FA-elig 7 0.3 0.3 +2.2
Cole Winn 26 pre-arb 22 0.3 0.8 +1.7
Alejandro Osuna 23 pre-arb 36 0.2 0.7 +1.5
Robert Garcia 30 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.8 -0.1
Carter Baumler 24 – 4 -0.2 0.8 -2.9
Gavin Collyer 25 – 18 -0.3 0.7 -3.3
Danny Jansen 31 FA-elig 41 -0.3 4.2 -7.4
Michael Helman 30 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.6 -3.7
Luis Curvelo 25 pre-arb 4 -0.5 0.2 -4.4
Jalen Beeks 32 FA-elig 27 -0.5 1.9 -6.4
Josh Smith 28 – 31 -0.6 – –
Chris Martin 40 FA-elig 12 -0.6 4.0 -9.8
Sam Haggerty 32 arb 36 -0.7 1.2 -7.4
Andrew McCutchen 39 FA-elig 37 -1.2 0.4 -11.7

34 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (94%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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 TEX
Rafael Palmeiro198842.3
Elvis Andrus200729.8
Michael Young200025.0
Charlie Hough198011.2
John Burkett199411.0
Nathaniel Lowe202010.8
Scott Fletcher198510.3
Aaron Sele19979.6
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Kyle Hendricks201224.4
Travis Hafner200222.3
Rich Aurilia199419.8
John Danks200617.4
Ian Kinsler201316.3
Tom Henke198516.2
Ron Darling198214.0
Odúbel Herrera201413.2
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.