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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2010 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+12.2
WAB — wins above budget
+10.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · won pennant
+29M
surplus $M (value/$)
41.2
roster fWAR
$65.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Josh Hamilton 29 arb 133 8.4 3.2 +16.2
Nelson Cruz 29 arb 108 4.9 0.4 +10.9
Colby Lewis 30 FA-elig 32 4.9 1.8 +9.5
C.J. Wilson 29 arb 33 4.1 3.1 +6.3
Ian Kinsler 28 arb 103 3.4 4.2 +3.6
Cliff Lee↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 15 3.2 4.8 +2.5
Michael Young 33 FA-elig 157 2.4 13.2 -7.6
Elvis Andrus 21 pre-arb 148 2.1 0.4 +4.4
Neftalí Feliz 22 pre-arb 70 2.0 0.4 +4.2
David Murphy 28 arb 138 1.8 0.4 +3.8
Darren Oliver 39 FA-elig 64 1.5 3.0 +0.5
Julio Borbon 24 pre-arb 137 1.2 0.6 +2.2
Scott Feldman 27 arb 29 1.1 2.4 +0.2
Darren O'Day 27 pre-arb 72 1.1 0.4 +2.1
Frank Francisco 30 FA-elig 56 1.1 3.3 -0.8
Vladimir Guerrero 35 FA-elig 152 1.1 5.5 -3.1
Alexi Ogando 26 – 44 0.9 – –
Tommy Hunter 23 pre-arb 23 0.9 0.4 +1.7
Derek Holland 23 pre-arb 14 0.8 0.4 +1.5
Mitch Moreland 24 – 47 0.7 – –
Jeff Francoeur↔ NYM 26 arb 15 0.4 0.5 +0.3
Michael Kirkman 23 – 14 0.3 – –
Taylor Teagarden 26 pre-arb 28 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Esteban German 32 – 13 0.1 – –
Mark Lowe↔ SEA 27 arb 3 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Guillermo Moscoso 26 – 1 -0.0 – –
Andrés Blanco 26 FA-elig 68 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Jarrod Saltalamacchia↔ BOS 25 arb 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Alex Cora↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Matt Treanor 34 – 82 -0.1 – –
Craig Gentry 26 – 20 -0.2 – –
Matt Harrison 24 pre-arb 37 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Chris Ray↔ SFG 28 arb 35 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Pedro Strop 25 – 15 -0.2 – –
Joaquin Arias↔ NYM 25 arb 50 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Clay Rapada 29 – 13 -0.3 – –
Jorge Cantu↔ MIA 28 FA-elig 30 -0.3 1.4 -2.1
Omar Beltre 28 – 2 -0.3 – –
Dustin Nippert 29 arb 38 -0.3 0.7 -1.3
Brandon Boggs 27 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Justin Smoak↔ SEA 23 – 70 -0.3 – –
Max Ramirez 25 pre-arb 28 -0.4 0.4 -1.3
Doug Mathis 27 pre-arb 13 -0.5 0.4 -1.6
Ryan Garko 29 arb 15 -0.6 0.6 -2.0
Rich Harden 28 FA-elig 20 -0.7 6.5 -8.0
Bengie Molina↔ SFG 35 FA-elig 57 -0.7 2.2 -3.7
Chris Davis 24 pre-arb 45 -0.7 0.4 -2.1
Cristian Guzman↔ WSN 32 FA-elig 15 -0.7 1.2 -2.8

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (77%). 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.