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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.0
WAB — wins above budget
-12.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
67–95 (0.414)
record
-52M
surplus $M (value/$)
20.5
roster fWAR
$121.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Leclerc 24 pre-arb 59 2.6 0.5 +8.4
Mike Minor 30 FA-elig 28 2.6 8.3 +0.5
Rougned Odor 24 arb 129 2.4 3.3 +4.8
Jurickson Profar 25 FA-elig 146 2.2 1.1 +6.4
Joey Gallo 24 arb 148 2.2 0.6 +6.8
Shin-Soo Choo 35 FA-elig 146 1.9 20.0 -13.4
Adrian Beltré 39 FA-elig 119 1.2 18.0 -14.1
Keone Kela↔ PIT 25 arb 38 1.1 0.8 +3.0
Alex Claudio 26 arb 66 1.0 0.6 +2.7
Robinson Chirinos 34 FA-elig 113 0.9 2.2 +0.7
Elvis Andrus 29 FA-elig 97 0.8 15.2 -12.5
Jake Diekman↔ ARI 31 FA-elig 47 0.7 1.8 +0.7
Chris Martin 32 arb 46 0.7 1.8 +0.5
Delino DeShields 25 arb 106 0.6 0.6 +1.5
Cole Hamels↔ CHC 34 FA-elig 20 0.6 14.7 -12.6
Nomar Mazara 23 pre-arb 128 0.6 0.6 +1.3
Yovani Gallardo↔ CIN 32 FA-elig 18 0.5 1.0 +0.8
Isiah Kiner-Falefa 23 – 111 0.5 0.5 +1.1
Ronald Guzmán 23 – 123 0.4 0.5 +0.9
Doug Fister 34 FA-elig 12 0.4 3.5 -2.2
Bartolo Colon 45 FA-elig 28 0.4 1.8 -0.4
Cory Gearrin↔ OAK 32 FA-elig 21 0.4 0.6 +0.6
Tony Barnette 34 pre-arb 22 0.3 1.5 -0.4
Ariel Jurado 22 – 12 0.3 0.2 +0.9
Jeffrey Springs 25 – 18 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Jesse Chavez↔ CHC 34 FA-elig 30 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Austin Bibens-Dirkx 33 – 13 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Matt Moore 29 FA-elig 39 0.2 9.0 -8.4
Ricardo Rodríguez 25 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.2 +0.3
CD Pelham 23 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Nick Gardewine 24 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Yohander Méndez 23 pre-arb 8 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Connor Sadzeck 26 – 13 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Adrian Sampson 26 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jose Trevino 25 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Brandon Mann 34 – 7 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Martín Pérez 27 FA-elig 22 -0.1 6.0 -6.3
Matt Bush 32 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Zac Curtis↔ PHI 25 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Hanser Alberto 25 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Drew Hutchison↔ PHI 27 FA-elig 5 -0.3 0.9 -1.8
Drew Robinson 26 pre-arb 47 -0.3 0.3 -1.4
Juan Centeno 28 arb 10 -0.5 0.6 -2.2
Renato Núñez↔ BAL 24 – 13 -0.5 0.0 -1.6
Carlos Pérez↔ ATL 27 pre-arb 20 -0.5 0.2 -2.0
Carlos Tocci 22 pre-arb 66 -0.6 0.5 -2.5
Kevin Jepsen 33 – 21 -0.6 0.4 -2.4
Willie Calhoun 23 pre-arb 35 -0.6 0.2 -2.2
Ryan Rua 28 arb 61 -0.6 0.9 -2.9
Eddie Butler↔ CHC 27 arb 22 -0.9 0.4 -3.4

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.