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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.0
WAB — wins above budget
+3.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
87–75 (0.537)
record
+12M
surplus $M (value/$)
33.9
roster fWAR
$66.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ian Kinsler 27 arb 144 4.6 3.2 +7.6
Elvis Andrus 20 pre-arb 145 3.3 0.4 +7.4
Nelson Cruz 28 arb 128 3.0 0.4 +6.8
Scott Feldman 26 arb 34 2.7 0.4 +6.0
Michael Young 32 FA-elig 135 2.6 13.1 -6.8
Kevin Millwood 34 FA-elig 31 2.0 12.9 -8.1
C.J. Wilson 28 arb 74 1.7 1.9 +2.2
Tommy Hunter 22 pre-arb 19 1.7 0.4 +3.6
Marlon Byrd 31 FA-elig 146 1.3 3.1 +0.1
Josh Hamilton 28 pre-arb 89 1.3 0.6 +2.6
David Murphy 27 arb 128 1.3 0.4 +2.6
Darren O'Day↔ NYM 26 pre-arb 64 1.2 0.4 +2.5
Taylor Teagarden 25 pre-arb 60 1.1 0.4 +2.3
Neftalí Feliz 21 pre-arb 20 1.1 0.4 +2.1
Frank Francisco 29 arb 51 1.0 1.6 +0.9
Brandon McCarthy 25 arb 17 0.9 0.7 +1.5
Omar Vizquel 42 FA-elig 62 0.9 1.0 +1.2
Dustin Nippert 28 arb 20 0.9 0.4 +1.7
Vicente Padilla↔ LAD 31 FA-elig 18 0.8 8.3 -6.5
Andruw Jones 32 FA-elig 82 0.6 0.5 +0.9
Julio Borbon 23 pre-arb 46 0.6 0.3 +1.0
Derek Holland 22 – 33 0.5 – –
Matt Harrison 23 pre-arb 11 0.5 0.4 +0.7
Jarrod Saltalamacchia 24 pre-arb 84 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Doug Mathis 26 pre-arb 24 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Jason Grilli↔ COL 32 FA-elig 30 0.3 0.5 +0.2
Willie Eyre 30 arb 17 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Esteban German 31 FA-elig 19 0.1 1.2 -0.9
Pedro Strop 24 – 7 0.1 – –
Kevin Richardson 28 – 4 0.1 – –
Jason Jennings 30 FA-elig 44 0.1 0.8 -0.6
Guillermo Moscoso 25 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Ivan Rodriguez↔ HOU 37 FA-elig 28 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Greg Golson 23 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Luis Mendoza 25 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Josh Rupe 26 arb 4 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Warner Madrigal 25 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Craig Gentry 25 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Joaquin Arias 24 arb 3 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Kris Benson 34 FA-elig 8 -0.3 0.8 -1.6
Hank Blalock 28 FA-elig 123 -0.4 6.2 -7.2
Brandon Boggs 26 pre-arb 9 -0.5 0.4 -1.5
Eddie Guardado 38 FA-elig 48 -0.5 1.0 -2.2
Chris Davis 23 pre-arb 113 -0.5 0.4 -1.6

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (93%). 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 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.