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President of baseball ops: Chris Young (since 2023)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.9
WAB — wins above budget
+10.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · World Series champions
-14M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.9
roster fWAR
$210.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Marcus Semien 32 FA-elig 162 6.5 26.0 -0.4
Corey Seager 29 FA-elig 119 6.4 35.5 -10.2
Adolis García 30 arb 148 4.7 0.7 +17.8
Jonah Heim 28 arb 131 4.0 0.7 +15.3
Josh Jung 25 pre-arb 122 2.8 0.7 +10.4
Nathaniel Lowe 27 arb 161 2.7 4.0 +6.8
Leody Taveras 24 arb 143 2.5 0.7 +9.3
Nathan Eovaldi 33 FA-elig 25 2.3 16.0 -6.7
Mitch Garver 32 FA-elig 87 2.2 3.9 +4.9
Dane Dunning 28 arb 35 1.9 0.7 +7.0
Jon Gray 31 FA-elig 29 1.7 15.0 -8.3
Jordan Montgomery↔ STL 30 FA-elig 11 1.6 3.4 +3.0
Jacob deGrom 35 FA-elig 6 1.5 30.0 -24.2
Ezequiel Duran 24 pre-arb 122 1.4 0.7 +4.7
Evan Carter 20 – 23 1.2 0.1 +4.8
Andrew Heaney 32 FA-elig 34 1.2 12.0 -7.3
Max Scherzer↔ NYM 38 FA-elig 8 1.1 12.8 -8.3
Travis Jankowski 32 FA-elig 107 1.1 1.2 +3.2
Will Smith 33 FA-elig 60 1.1 1.5 +2.7
José Leclerc 29 FA-elig 57 0.8 6.0 -2.6
Josh Sborz 29 arb 44 0.7 0.7 +1.9
Robbie Grossman 33 FA-elig 115 0.5 2.0 -0.2
Aroldis Chapman↔ KCR 35 FA-elig 30 0.5 1.8 -0.0
Martín Pérez 32 FA-elig 35 0.3 19.6 -18.5
Cody Bradford 25 – 20 0.3 0.3 +0.7
Yerry Rodríguez 25 pre-arb 13 0.2 0.1 +0.5
John King↔ STL 28 – 15 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Sam Huff 25 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Chris Stratton↔ STL 32 FA-elig 22 0.1 1.0 -0.6
Grant Anderson 26 – 26 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Josh Smith 25 pre-arb 90 0.1 0.7 -0.5
Austin Hedges↔ PIT 30 FA-elig 17 0.1 1.0 -0.8
Jacob Latz 27 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Jonathan Hernández 26 arb 33 0.0 1.0 -0.9
Taylor Hearn↔ ATL 28 arb 4 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Jonathan Ornelas 23 – 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Alex Speas 25 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Spencer Howard 26 – 3 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
Joe Barlow 27 – 13 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Owen White 23 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Ian Kennedy 38 FA-elig 16 -0.1 2.2 -2.8
Brad Miller 33 FA-elig 27 -0.2 4.0 -4.6
Cole Ragans↔ KCR 25 pre-arb 17 -0.2 0.4 -1.2
Brock Burke 26 arb 53 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
J.P. Martínez 27 – 17 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Bubba Thompson 25 pre-arb 37 -0.4 0.7 -2.2
Sandy León 34 FA-elig 22 -0.5 0.1 -1.9
Glenn Otto Jr. 27 – 6 -0.6 – –

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 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.