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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Pat Gillick (since 1978)

1989 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.6
WAB — wins above budget
+8.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record · made playoffs
+1M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.2
roster fWAR
$15.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Fred McGriff 25 arb 161 6.4 0.3 +2.0
Jimmy Key 28 arb 33 4.6 1.8 -0.1
Kelly Gruber 27 arb 135 3.9 0.5 +1.0
Tony Fernandez 27 FA-elig 140 3.6 1.4 -0.1
Tom Henke 31 FA-elig 64 3.5 1.0 +0.3
Ernie Whitt 37 FA-elig 129 2.9 0.8 +0.3
Duane Ward 25 arb 66 2.7 0.2 +0.8
Dave Stieb 31 FA-elig 33 2.7 1.5 -0.5
George Bell 29 FA-elig 153 2.6 1.9 -1.0
Nelson Liriano 25 pre-arb 132 2.4 0.1 +0.7
Mike Flanagan 37 FA-elig 30 2.2 0.9 -0.1
John Cerutti 29 arb 33 1.9 0.4 +0.3
David Wells 26 pre-arb 54 1.8 0.1 +0.5
Junior Felix 21 pre-arb 110 1.3 0.1 +0.4
Todd Stottlemyre 24 pre-arb 27 1.2 0.1 +0.3
Frank Wills 30 – 24 0.6 – –
Lloyd Moseby 29 FA-elig 135 0.5 1.4 -1.2
Jim Acker↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 14 0.5 0.1 +0.0
Mauro Gozzo 23 pre-arb 9 0.4 0.1 +0.1
Lee Mazzilli↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 28 0.4 0.1 +0.0
Jose Antonio Nunez 25 pre-arb 6 0.4 0.2 -0.0
Pat Borders 26 pre-arb 94 0.3 0.1 -0.0
Jesse Barfield↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 21 0.2 0.2 -0.1
Manuel Lee 24 arb 99 0.2 0.2 -0.1
Tony Castillo↔ ATL 26 pre-arb 17 0.2 0.0 +0.0
Steve Cummings 24 – 5 0.2 – –
Ozzie Virgil Jr. 32 – 9 0.1 – –
Rance Mulliniks 33 FA-elig 103 0.1 0.7 -0.6
Al Leiter↔ NYY 23 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
John Olerud 20 – 6 0.0 – –
Kevin Batiste 22 – 6 -0.0 – –
Glenallen Hill 24 – 19 -0.1 – –
Francisco Cabrera↔ ATL 22 – 3 -0.1 – –
Xavier Hernandez 23 – 7 -0.1 – –
Alexis Infante 27 – 20 -0.1 – –
Rob Ducey 24 pre-arb 41 -0.2 0.1 -0.1
Jeff Musselman↔ NYM 26 arb 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.1
DeWayne Buice 31 – 7 -0.2 – –
Alex Sanchez 23 – 4 -0.2 – –
Mookie Wilson↔ NYM 33 FA-elig 54 -0.3 0.4 -0.5
Greg Myers 23 – 17 -0.6 – –
Bob Brenly↔ SFG 35 FA-elig 48 -0.7 0.5 -0.8
Tom Lawless 32 FA-elig 59 -1.1 0.2 -0.6

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 31 of them (72%). 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 TOR
Juan Guzmán198721.1
Roberto Alomar199020.4
Josh Donaldson201420.4
Fred McGriff198219.7
George Bell198016.7
Tom Henke198516.2
Duane Ward198614.9
Ernie Whitt198514.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Michael Young200025.0
Noah Syndergaard201220.1
John Olerud199618.3
David Cone199516.6
Yan Gomes201213.5
Matt Boyd201510.9
Travis d'Arnaud20129.8
Fred McGriff19909.1
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.