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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.0
WAB — wins above budget
-8.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-27M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.3
roster fWAR
$102.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Lance Lynn 32 FA-elig 33 6.7 9.3 +12.7
Mike Minor 31 FA-elig 33 4.0 9.8 +3.3
Joey Gallo 25 arb 70 2.9 0.6 +8.8
Danny Santana 28 arb 130 2.5 0.5 +7.7
Elvis Andrus 30 FA-elig 147 2.0 15.2 -8.8
Hunter Pence 36 FA-elig 83 1.5 2.0 +2.9
Shin-Soo Choo 36 FA-elig 151 1.4 21.0 -16.5
José Leclerc 25 arb 70 1.4 1.5 +3.0
Kolby Allard 21 pre-arb 9 1.0 0.2 +3.2
Jesse Chavez 35 FA-elig 48 1.0 4.0 -0.8
Ariel Jurado 23 pre-arb 32 0.9 0.5 +2.5
Brett Martin 24 – 51 0.9 0.4 +2.4
Rougned Odor 25 arb 145 0.8 7.8 -5.2
Delino DeShields 26 arb 118 0.8 1.4 +1.1
Nomar Mazara 24 arb 116 0.8 3.3 -0.8
Chris Martin↔ ATL 33 arb 38 0.5 1.5 +0.2
Emmanuel Clase 21 – 21 0.4 0.2 +1.2
Nick Solak 24 – 33 0.4 0.1 +1.1
Rafael Montero 28 arb 22 0.4 0.2 +1.0
Asdrúbal Cabrera↔ WSN 33 FA-elig 93 0.4 2.5 -1.3
Adrian Sampson 27 pre-arb 35 0.2 0.5 +0.3
Willie Calhoun 24 pre-arb 83 0.2 0.4 +0.4
Locke St. John 26 – 7 0.1 – –
Jeffrey Springs 26 pre-arb 25 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Ian Gibaut↔ TBR 25 – 9 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Scott Heineman 26 – 25 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Luke Farrell 28 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.6 -0.4
Jeanmar Gómez 31 FA-elig 16 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Wei-Chieh Huang 25 – 4 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Pedro Payano 24 – 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
David Carpenter 33 arb 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jose Trevino 26 pre-arb 40 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Jonathan Hernández 22 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Taylor Guerrieri 26 pre-arb 20 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Phillips Valdez 27 – 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Tim Federowicz 31 arb 29 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Brock Burke 22 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Taylor Hearn 24 – 1 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Yohander Méndez 24 arb 3 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Edinson Volquez 35 FA-elig 11 -0.2 2.0 -2.5
Shelby Miller 28 FA-elig 19 -0.2 2.0 -2.6
Shawn Kelley 35 FA-elig 51 -0.2 2.5 -3.1
Jesse Biddle↔ ATL 27 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Pete Fairbanks↔ TBR 25 – 8 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Patrick Wisdom 27 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Kyle Dowdy 26 pre-arb 13 -0.3 0.6 -1.4
Joe Palumbo 24 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Kyle Bird 26 pre-arb 12 -0.6 0.6 -2.5
Logan Forsythe 32 FA-elig 101 -0.6 0.1 -2.1
Ronald Guzmán 24 pre-arb 87 -0.8 0.6 -3.0
Isiah Kiner-Falefa 24 pre-arb 65 -0.8 0.6 -3.1
Drew Smyly↔ PHI 30 FA-elig 13 -0.9 3.6 -6.6
Jeff Mathis 36 FA-elig 88 -2.0 3.2 -9.9

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 52 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.