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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-22.7 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-26.9 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
22–38 (0.367)
record
-99M
surplus $M (value/$)
2.8
roster fWAR
$119.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Lance Lynn 33 FA-elig 13 1.4 11.3 -0.8
Isiah Kiner-Falefa 25 pre-arb 58 1.0 0.2 +7.4
Jonathan Hernández 23 pre-arb 27 0.6 0.2 +4.1
Joey Gallo 26 arb 57 0.6 4.4 -0.2
Kyle Cody 25 – 8 0.4 0.1 +3.0
Leody Taveras 21 – 33 0.4 0.1 +2.8
Joely Rodríguez 28 arb 12 0.4 2.5 +0.3
Sam Huff 22 – 10 0.4 0.1 +2.7
Mike Minor↔ OAK 32 FA-elig 7 0.4 5.7 -3.1
Kolby Allard 22 pre-arb 11 0.3 0.2 +2.3
Ronald Guzmán 25 pre-arb 26 0.3 0.1 +2.1
Rafael Montero 29 FA-elig 17 0.3 0.8 +1.1
Jose Trevino 27 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.2 +1.3
Kyle Gibson 32 FA-elig 12 0.2 10.7 -9.2
Derek Dietrich 30 arb 25 0.2 0.2 +1.0
Anderson Tejeda 22 – 23 0.1 0.1 +0.9
Wes Benjamin 26 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.8
Taylor Hearn 25 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.2 +0.7
Edinson Volquez 36 FA-elig 7 0.1 0.4 +0.5
Jeff Mathis 37 FA-elig 24 0.1 3.0 -2.4
José Leclerc 26 arb 2 0.1 2.8 -2.2
Andrew Romine 34 FA-elig 2 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Corey Kluber 34 FA-elig 1 0.0 6.5 -6.4
Todd Frazier↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 31 0.0 2.4 -2.4
Demarcus Evans 23 – 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Luke Farrell 29 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Shin-Soo Choo 37 FA-elig 33 -0.0 21.0 -21.2
Luis García 33 – 11 -0.0 0.2 -0.4
Jimmy Herget 26 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.2 -0.5
Ian Gibaut 26 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
John King 25 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Adolis García 27 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Rougned Odor 26 FA-elig 38 -0.1 9.3 -9.9
Yadiel Rivera 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.7
Joe Palumbo 25 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.2 -0.8
Brett Martin 25 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.2 -0.8
Juan Nicasio 33 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.8
Rob Refsnyder 29 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.1 -0.9
Danny Santana 29 FA-elig 15 -0.1 3.6 -4.4
Jordan Lyles 29 FA-elig 12 -0.1 8.0 -9.0
Nick Goody 28 arb 17 -0.2 0.9 -2.3
Elvis Andrus 31 FA-elig 29 -0.2 15.2 -16.7
Scott Heineman 27 pre-arb 24 -0.3 0.2 -2.5
Nick Solak 25 pre-arb 58 -0.3 0.2 -2.7
Eli White 26 – 19 -0.4 0.1 -2.9
Robinson Chirinos↔ NYM 36 FA-elig 14 -0.5 3.0 -6.3
Sherten Apostel 21 – 7 -0.5 0.0 -3.6
Jesse Chavez 36 FA-elig 18 -0.5 4.0 -8.0
Willie Calhoun 25 pre-arb 29 -0.9 0.2 -7.1

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.