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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+14.0
WAB — wins above budget
+18.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
96–66 (0.593)
record · won pennant
+35M
surplus $M (value/$)
52.9
roster fWAR
$95.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ian Kinsler 29 arb 155 7.3 6.2 +11.6
Adrian Beltré 32 FA-elig 124 5.5 14.0 -0.6
C.J. Wilson 30 FA-elig 34 5.2 7.0 +5.8
Mike Napoli 29 arb 113 4.3 5.8 +4.6
Elvis Andrus 22 pre-arb 150 4.0 0.5 +9.3
Josh Hamilton 30 arb 121 4.0 8.8 +1.0
Matt Harrison 25 arb 31 3.8 0.4 +8.9
Alexi Ogando 27 pre-arb 31 3.5 0.4 +8.2
Michael Young 34 FA-elig 159 3.2 16.2 -8.4
Derek Holland 24 pre-arb 32 3.1 0.4 +7.3
Colby Lewis 31 FA-elig 32 2.1 2.0 +3.1
Craig Gentry 27 pre-arb 64 1.7 0.4 +3.6
Endy Chavez 33 FA-elig 83 1.4 1.2 +2.2
Nelson Cruz 30 FA-elig 124 1.4 3.6 -0.3
Darren Oliver 40 FA-elig 61 1.2 3.2 -0.3
Neftalí Feliz 23 pre-arb 64 1.0 0.5 +1.9
David Murphy 29 arb 120 0.6 2.4 -1.0
Yorvit Torrealba 32 FA-elig 113 0.6 3.0 -1.6
Mike Adams↔ SDP 32 FA-elig 27 0.4 0.9 +0.2
Esteban German 33 – 11 0.3 – –
Taylor Teagarden 27 pre-arb 14 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Scott Feldman 28 FA-elig 11 0.2 4.4 -3.8
Mitch Moreland 25 pre-arb 134 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Mark Lowe 28 arb 52 0.2 1.2 -0.7
Yoshinori Tateyama 35 pre-arb 39 0.2 0.8 -0.4
Michael Gonzalez↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 7 0.2 0.8 -0.4
Tommy Hunter↔ BAL 24 arb 8 0.2 0.2 +0.2
Mark Hamburger 24 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Leonys Martin 23 pre-arb 8 0.1 1.5 -1.3
Koji Uehara↔ BAL 36 pre-arb 22 0.1 1.0 -0.8
Pedro Strop↔ BAL 26 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Julio Borbon 25 pre-arb 32 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Dave Bush 31 FA-elig 17 -0.1 1.0 -1.1
Merkin Valdez 29 – 5 -0.1 – –
Ryan Tucker 24 – 5 -0.1 – –
Mason Tobin 23 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Chris Davis↔ BAL 25 – 28 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Michael Kirkman 24 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Omar Quintanilla 29 – 11 -0.2 – –
Andrés Blanco 27 FA-elig 36 -0.3 0.5 -1.1
Brett Tomko 38 – 8 -0.3 – –
Matt Treanor↔ KCR 35 FA-elig 7 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Darren O'Day 28 arb 16 -0.5 1.3 -2.4
Arthur Rhodes↔ STL 41 FA-elig 32 -0.5 2.4 -3.6
Cody Eppley 25 pre-arb 10 -0.5 0.4 -1.7

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (89%). 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.