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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006) · GM: Chris Young (since 2021)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-12.5
WAB — wins above budget
-6.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
-30M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.6
roster fWAR
$127.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Marcus Semien 31 FA-elig 161 4.4 25.0 -9.0
Corey Seager 28 FA-elig 151 4.3 33.0 -17.1
Martín Pérez 31 FA-elig 32 3.9 4.0 +10.1
Adolis García 29 pre-arb 156 3.2 0.7 +11.0
Nathaniel Lowe 26 pre-arb 157 3.1 0.7 +10.5
Jonah Heim 27 pre-arb 127 2.7 0.7 +9.3
Jon Gray 30 FA-elig 24 1.8 15.0 -8.4
Matt Moore 33 FA-elig 63 1.3 0.1 +4.8
Leody Taveras 23 pre-arb 99 1.2 0.4 +4.0
Brock Burke 25 pre-arb 52 1.0 0.7 +2.8
Dane Dunning 27 pre-arb 29 0.9 0.7 +2.5
Taylor Hearn 27 arb 31 0.9 1.1 +2.2
Dennis Santana 26 pre-arb 63 0.7 0.7 +1.7
Eli White 28 pre-arb 47 0.6 0.7 +1.5
Mark Mathias↔ MIL 27 pre-arb 24 0.6 0.2 +2.0
José Leclerc 28 FA-elig 39 0.6 5.2 -3.2
Meibrys Viloria 25 pre-arb 26 0.4 0.3 +1.3
Matt Bush↔ MIL 36 – 40 0.4 0.3 +1.1
Brett Martin 27 arb 55 0.3 1.0 +0.2
Sam Huff 24 pre-arb 44 0.3 0.3 +0.8
Garrett Richards 34 FA-elig 32 0.3 4.5 -3.6
Cole Ragans 24 – 9 0.2 0.7 +0.1
Bubba Thompson 24 – 55 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Ezequiel Duran 23 – 58 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Mitch Garver 31 arb 54 0.2 3.3 -2.6
Josh Jung 24 – 26 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Dallas Keuchel↔ ARI 34 FA-elig 2 0.1 2.6 -2.3
Josh Sborz 28 pre-arb 19 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Yerry Rodríguez 24 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jesus Tinoco 27 pre-arb 17 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Glenn Otto Jr. 26 – 27 0.0 – –
Jonathan Hernández 25 pre-arb 29 0.0 0.7 -0.7
John King 27 pre-arb 39 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Nick Snyder 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Josh Smith 24 – 73 -0.1 – –
Kevin Plawecki↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Spencer Patton 34 – 7 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Steele Walker 25 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Nick Solak 27 pre-arb 35 -0.1 0.4 -0.9
Tyson Miller 26 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Willie Calhoun↔ SFG 27 arb 18 -0.2 1.1 -1.7
Steven Duggar↔ ANA 28 – 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
A.J. Alexy 24 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Elier Hernandez 27 – 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Andy Ibáñez 29 pre-arb 40 -0.2 0.2 -1.1
Zach Reks 28 pre-arb 16 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Kohei Arihara 29 pre-arb 5 -0.3 3.6 -4.8
Joe Barlow 26 pre-arb 35 -0.3 0.7 -1.9
Albert Abreu↔ KCR 26 – 7 -0.3 0.2 -1.3
Greg Holland 36 FA-elig 5 -0.4 2.1 -3.4
Charlie Culberson 33 FA-elig 70 -0.4 1.8 -3.2
Spencer Howard 25 pre-arb 10 -0.7 0.4 -3.0
Kolby Allard 24 pre-arb 10 -0.7 0.2 -2.9
Brad Miller 32 FA-elig 81 -1.1 6.0 -10.1
Kole Calhoun 34 FA-elig 125 -1.3 5.2 -9.8

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 53 of them (96%). 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.