Rosternomics
𝕏

Blue Jays TOR

Switch team:

GM: Pat Gillick (since 1978)

1992 roster — every player, value & surplus

‹ Prev Next ›
+9.1
WAB — wins above budget
+8.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
96–66 (0.593)
record · World Series champions
-6M
surplus $M (value/$)
47.7
roster fWAR
$44.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roberto Alomar 24 arb 152 6.1 3.0 +1.8
Devon White 29 FA-elig 153 5.9 2.4 +2.2
Juan Guzman 25 pre-arb 28 5.5 0.2 +4.0
Dave Winfield 40 FA-elig 156 3.8 2.3 +0.7
Jack Morris 37 FA-elig 34 3.7 4.5 -1.6
John Olerud 23 arb 138 3.1 0.4 +2.0
Manuel Lee 27 FA-elig 128 2.9 1.0 +1.3
Joe Carter 32 FA-elig 158 2.9 3.7 -1.5
Jimmy Key 31 FA-elig 33 2.7 2.3 -0.1
Duane Ward 28 FA-elig 79 2.4 2.4 -0.6
Candy Maldonado 31 FA-elig 137 2.3 1.4 +0.4
Todd Stottlemyre 27 arb 28 1.4 1.2 -0.1
Jeff Kent↔ NYM 24 pre-arb 65 1.1 0.1 +0.8
Pat Borders 29 arb 138 1.1 1.0 -0.2
David Cone↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 8 0.9 1.0 -0.2
Mike Timlin 26 pre-arb 26 0.7 0.2 +0.3
Derek Bell 23 pre-arb 61 0.7 0.1 +0.4
Turner Ward 27 pre-arb 18 0.6 0.1 +0.4
Tom Henke 34 FA-elig 57 0.6 3.4 -2.9
Dave Stieb 34 FA-elig 21 0.4 3.2 -2.9
Mark Eichhorn↔ ANA 31 FA-elig 23 0.4 0.6 -0.3
David Wells 29 arb 41 0.4 2.1 -1.8
Domingo Martinez 24 – 7 0.2 – –
Bob MacDonald 27 pre-arb 27 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Randy Knorr 23 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 -0.1
Greg Myers↔ ANA 26 arb 22 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Rance Mulliniks 36 FA-elig 3 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Ricky Trlicek 23 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Al Leiter 26 arb 1 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Eddie Zosky 24 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
David Weathers 22 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Mike Maksudian 26 – 3 -0.1 – –
Kelly Gruber 30 FA-elig 120 -0.1 3.6 -3.7
Alfredo Griffin 34 FA-elig 63 -0.1 0.6 -0.7
Ed Sprague Jr. 24 pre-arb 22 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Pat Hentgen 23 pre-arb 28 -0.3 0.1 -0.3
Tom Quinlan 24 – 13 -0.3 – –
Pat Tabler 34 FA-elig 49 -0.3 0.9 -1.2
Doug Linton 27 – 8 -0.4 – –
Rob Ducey↔ ANA 27 arb 23 -0.6 0.1 -0.5

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (90%). 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.