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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Pat Gillick (since 1978)

1993 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.4
WAB — wins above budget
+7.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · World Series champions
-10M
surplus $M (value/$)
47.4
roster fWAR
$49.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
John Olerud 24 arb 158 8.1 1.6 +5.1
Roberto Alomar 25 arb 153 5.7 4.9 -0.2
Devon White 30 FA-elig 146 5.4 3.7 +0.8
Paul Molitor 36 FA-elig 160 4.8 3.6 +0.3
Juan Guzman 26 pre-arb 33 4.3 0.5 +3.0
Todd Stottlemyre 28 arb 30 3.0 2.3 +0.2
Tony Fernandez↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 94 2.8 1.5 +0.8
Duane Ward 29 FA-elig 71 2.6 3.4 -1.2
Pat Hentgen 24 pre-arb 34 2.2 0.2 +1.6
Joe Carter 33 FA-elig 155 2.0 5.5 -3.9
Jack Morris 38 FA-elig 27 1.7 5.4 -4.0
Danny Cox 33 FA-elig 44 1.4 0.6 +0.6
Ed Sprague Jr. 25 pre-arb 150 1.4 0.2 +1.0
Mark Eichhorn 32 FA-elig 54 1.0 0.8 -0.0
Al Leiter 27 FA-elig 34 0.9 0.3 +0.5
Dave Stewart 36 FA-elig 26 0.9 4.3 -3.5
Rob Butler 23 pre-arb 17 0.7 0.1 +0.5
Rickey Henderson↔ OAK 34 FA-elig 44 0.4 1.2 -0.9
Randy Knorr 24 pre-arb 39 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Tony Castillo 30 arb 51 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Dick Schofield 30 FA-elig 36 0.3 0.8 -0.6
Mike Timlin 27 pre-arb 54 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Domingo Martinez 27 pre-arb 8 0.2 0.1 +0.0
Woody Williams 26 pre-arb 30 0.2 0.1 +0.0
Willie Canate 21 pre-arb 38 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Huck Flener 24 – 6 0.0 – –
Doug Linton↔ ANA 28 – 4 0.0 – –
Carlos Delgado 21 – 2 0.0 – –
Scott Brow 24 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Ken Dayley 34 FA-elig 2 -0.0 1.8 -1.8
Shawn Green 20 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Pat Borders 30 arb 138 -0.2 2.5 -2.6
Turner Ward 28 arb 72 -0.4 0.2 -0.5
Luis Sojo 28 arb 19 -0.4 0.3 -0.6
Domingo Cedeno 24 pre-arb 15 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Alfredo Griffin 35 FA-elig 46 -0.5 0.5 -0.9
Darrin Jackson↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 46 -0.8 1.3 -1.9
Darnell Coles 31 FA-elig 64 -0.9 0.5 -1.2

38 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (92%). 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.