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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.9
WAB — wins above budget
-14.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-79M
surplus $M (value/$)
21.3
roster fWAR
$151.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Elvis Andrus 28 FA-elig 158 4.1 15.0 -1.0
Yu Darvish↔ LAD 30 arb 22 2.7 7.8 +1.2
Adrian Beltré 38 FA-elig 94 2.6 18.0 -9.4
Joey Gallo 23 pre-arb 145 2.4 0.5 +7.6
Andrew Cashner 30 FA-elig 28 2.2 10.0 -2.5
Martín Pérez 26 arb 32 2.1 4.4 +2.8
Carlos Gómez 31 FA-elig 105 2.0 11.5 -4.6
Robinson Chirinos 33 FA-elig 88 1.8 1.9 +4.1
Alex Claudio 25 arb 70 1.8 0.5 +5.4
Cole Hamels 33 FA-elig 24 1.7 23.5 -17.8
Delino DeShields 24 pre-arb 120 1.2 0.5 +3.6
Keone Kela 24 pre-arb 39 0.8 0.5 +2.3
Matt Bush 31 pre-arb 57 0.7 0.5 +1.8
Tony Barnette 33 pre-arb 50 0.6 1.8 +0.1
Shin-Soo Choo 34 FA-elig 149 0.4 20.0 -18.7
José Leclerc 23 pre-arb 47 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Nick Martinez 26 pre-arb 23 0.3 0.4 +0.5
Nomar Mazara 22 pre-arb 148 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Jason Grilli↔ TOR 40 FA-elig 20 0.2 1.3 -0.7
Ernesto Frieri 31 – 6 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Dario Alvarez 28 arb 20 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Drew Robinson 25 pre-arb 48 0.1 0.5 -0.2
A.J. Griffin 29 arb 18 0.1 2.0 -1.8
Tanner Scheppers 30 arb 5 0.0 1.0 -0.8
Preston Claiborne 29 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jhan Mariñez↔ MIL 28 FA-elig 4 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Jake Diekman 30 arb 11 -0.0 2.5 -2.6
Will Middlebrooks 28 arb 22 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Paolo Espino↔ MIL 30 – 6 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Anthony Bass 29 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Phil Gosselin↔ PIT 28 arb 12 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Nick Gardewine 23 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Willie Calhoun 22 – 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Miguel González↔ CHW 33 arb 5 -0.1 1.1 -1.5
Tyson Ross 30 FA-elig 12 -0.1 6.0 -6.4
Yohander Méndez 22 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Ricardo Rodríguez 24 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Austin Bibens-Dirkx 32 – 24 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Dillon Gee↔ MIN 31 – 4 -0.2 0.4 -1.2
A.J. Jimenez 27 – 7 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Jurickson Profar 24 arb 22 -0.3 1.1 -1.9
Mike Hauschild 27 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Jared Hoying 28 pre-arb 36 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Jeremy Jeffress↔ MIL 29 FA-elig 39 -0.5 1.3 -2.9
Pete Kozma↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 28 -0.5 0.4 -2.1
Brett Nicholas 28 pre-arb 22 -0.5 0.5 -2.4
Rougned Odor 23 arb 162 -0.6 1.3 -3.3
Jonathan Lucroy↔ COL 31 FA-elig 77 -0.6 3.3 -5.4
Ryan Rua 27 arb 63 -0.6 0.5 -2.7
Mike Napoli 35 FA-elig 124 -0.7 6.0 -8.3
Sam Dyson↔ SFG 29 arb 17 -0.9 1.1 -4.2

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.