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President of baseball ops: Chris Young (since 2023)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-10.3
WAB — wins above budget
-11.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-142M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.1
roster fWAR
$263.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corey Seager 30 FA-elig 123 4.6 35.0 -15.6
Marcus Semien 33 FA-elig 159 4.3 26.0 -8.2
Wyatt Langford 22 pre-arb 134 3.1 0.7 +12.1
Nathaniel Lowe 28 arb 140 2.9 7.5 +4.7
Josh Smith 26 pre-arb 149 2.9 0.7 +11.5
Nathan Eovaldi 34 FA-elig 29 2.6 16.0 -5.1
Andrew Heaney 33 FA-elig 32 2.2 13.0 -3.9
Kirby Yates 37 FA-elig 61 1.9 4.5 +3.4
David Robertson 39 FA-elig 68 1.8 10.0 -2.3
Jon Gray 32 FA-elig 24 1.8 13.0 -5.5
Cody Bradford 26 pre-arb 14 1.5 0.7 +5.6
Leody Taveras 25 arb 151 1.2 2.5 +2.4
José Leclerc 30 FA-elig 64 0.8 6.2 -2.9
Max Scherzer 39 FA-elig 9 0.6 43.3 -40.8
Jacob deGrom 36 FA-elig 3 0.4 40.0 -38.4
Matt Festa↔ NYM 31 pre-arb 18 0.4 0.2 +1.4
Josh Sborz 30 arb 17 0.4 1.0 +0.5
Josh Jung 26 pre-arb 46 0.3 0.8 +0.7
Derek Hill↔ MIA 28 – 16 0.2 0.1 +0.9
Michael Lorenzen↔ KCR 32 FA-elig 19 0.2 3.3 -2.4
Ezequiel Duran 25 pre-arb 92 0.2 0.8 +0.0
Carson Kelly↔ DET 29 FA-elig 31 0.2 1.2 -0.4
Tyler Mahle 29 FA-elig 3 0.2 5.5 -4.7
Kumar Rocker 24 – 3 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Dustin Harris 24 – 2 0.2 0.0 +0.6
Matt Duffy 33 FA-elig 4 0.1 0.0 +0.6
Robbie Grossman↔ CHW 34 – 46 0.1 0.5 -0.0
Evan Carter 21 pre-arb 45 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Shaun Anderson↔ MIA 29 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
José Ureña 32 FA-elig 33 0.0 1.8 -1.6
Marc Church 23 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Sam Huff 26 arb 3 -0.0 0.7 -0.7
Cole Winn 24 pre-arb 13 -0.0 0.7 -0.7
Walter Pennington↔ KCR 26 – 15 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Daniel Robert 29 – 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Jonah Heim 29 arb 131 -0.1 3.0 -3.3
Owen White 24 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.7 -1.1
Dane Dunning 29 arb 26 -0.1 3.3 -3.7
Sandro Fabian 26 – 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Chase Anderson↔ BOS 36 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Jared Walsh 30 arb 17 -0.1 1.2 -1.8
Jonathan Ornelas 24 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Gerson Garabito 28 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Adolis García 31 FA-elig 154 -0.1 4.8 -5.3
Brock Burke↔ ANA 27 arb 13 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Jesus Tinoco↔ CHC 29 arb 9 -0.2 0.2 -1.0
Travis Jankowski 33 FA-elig 104 -0.2 1.7 -2.7
Jack Leiter 24 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.7 -1.8
Davis Wendzel 27 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
Jacob Latz 28 arb 46 -0.3 0.7 -1.9
Andrew Chafin↔ DET 34 FA-elig 21 -0.3 1.6 -3.0
Austin Pruitt 34 – 4 -0.4 0.6 -2.0
Jonathan Hernández↔ SEA 27 arb 26 -0.4 1.1 -2.8
Yerry Rodríguez↔ TOR 26 pre-arb 12 -0.6 0.6 -2.9
Andrew Knizner 29 arb 37 -0.6 1.8 -4.4
Justin Foscue 25 pre-arb 15 -0.8 0.7 -4.1
Grant Anderson 27 pre-arb 23 -0.9 0.7 -4.7

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.