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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.1
WAB — wins above budget
+4.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
91–72 (0.558)
record
-15M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.8
roster fWAR
$124.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Adrian Beltré 34 FA-elig 161 4.9 16.0 -2.8
Yu Darvish 26 pre-arb 32 4.6 9.5 +2.8
Derek Holland 26 arb 33 4.5 3.2 +8.8
Craig Gentry 29 arb 106 3.0 0.5 +7.6
Leonys Martin 25 pre-arb 147 2.9 3.2 +4.6
Ian Kinsler 31 FA-elig 136 2.8 13.0 -5.6
Elvis Andrus 24 arb 156 2.8 4.8 +2.6
Joe Nathan 38 FA-elig 67 2.4 7.0 -0.5
Neal Cotts 33 arb 58 1.8 0.4 +4.4
Nelson Cruz 32 FA-elig 109 1.6 10.5 -6.3
Martín Pérez 22 pre-arb 20 1.3 0.5 +3.0
Matt Garza↔ CHC 29 FA-elig 13 1.2 5.6 -2.4
Geovany Soto 30 FA-elig 54 1.1 2.8 +0.2
Alexi Ogando 29 arb 23 1.0 0.5 +2.2
Robbie Ross Jr. 24 pre-arb 65 1.0 0.5 +2.1
Nick Tepesch 24 pre-arb 19 1.0 0.5 +2.1
Jeff Baker 32 FA-elig 74 1.0 1.8 +0.8
Alex Rios↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 47 0.8 3.8 -1.7
Jason Frasor 35 FA-elig 61 0.7 1.5 +0.5
Mitch Moreland 27 arb 147 0.7 0.5 +1.4
Tanner Scheppers 26 pre-arb 76 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Justin Grimm↔ CHC 24 – 17 0.4 0.2 +0.8
A.J. Pierzynski 36 FA-elig 134 0.4 7.5 -6.5
Josh Lindblom 26 pre-arb 8 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Travis Blackley↔ HOU 30 FA-elig 4 0.3 0.0 +0.7
Joey Butler 27 – 8 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Joakim Soria 29 FA-elig 26 0.2 2.0 -1.5
Joe Ortiz 22 pre-arb 32 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Neftalí Feliz 25 arb 6 0.1 2.9 -2.6
Michael Kirkman 26 arb 25 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Adam Rosales↔ OAK 30 arb 17 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Ross Wolf 30 – 22 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Matt Harrison 27 arb 2 -0.0 5.2 -5.2
Wilmer Font 23 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Julio Borbon↔ CHC 27 arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Cory Burns 25 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
James Adduci 28 – 17 -0.1 – –
Engel Beltre 23 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Derek Lowe 40 FA-elig 9 -0.2 1.2 -1.7
Jurickson Profar 20 pre-arb 85 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Kyle McClellan 29 arb 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Robinson Chirinos 29 pre-arb 13 -0.3 0.2 -1.0
Lance Berkman 37 FA-elig 73 -0.3 10.0 -10.8
David Murphy 31 FA-elig 142 -0.4 5.8 -6.8
Chris McGuiness 25 pre-arb 10 -0.4 0.0 -1.2
Leury García↔ CHW 22 pre-arb 25 -0.5 0.3 -1.5

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (98%). 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.