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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Gord Ash (since 1995)

1996 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.5
WAB — wins above budget
-5.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-5M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.8
roster fWAR
$29.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Pat Hentgen 27 arb 35 6.0 2.4 +2.7
Juan Guzman 29 arb 27 4.6 2.2 +1.6
Erik Hanson 31 FA-elig 35 3.0 2.3 +0.2
Ed Sprague Jr. 28 arb 159 2.9 1.4 +1.0
John Olerud 27 FA-elig 125 2.6 6.5 -4.3
Alex Gonzalez 23 pre-arb 147 2.2 0.2 +1.6
Charlie O'Brien 36 FA-elig 109 2.0 0.5 +1.2
Carlos Delgado 24 arb 138 1.6 0.2 +1.2
Mike Timlin 30 arb 59 1.4 0.6 +0.6
Tim Crabtree 26 pre-arb 53 1.4 0.1 +1.0
Woody Williams 29 arb 12 0.9 0.2 +0.5
Otis Nixon 37 FA-elig 125 0.7 1.9 -1.3
Huck Flener 27 arb 15 0.7 0.1 +0.5
Tony Castillo↔ CHW 33 FA-elig 40 0.6 0.5 +0.0
Shawn Green 23 arb 132 0.4 0.3 +0.1
Juan Samuel 35 FA-elig 69 0.3 0.3 -0.0
Felipe Crespo 23 pre-arb 22 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Paul Quantrill 27 arb 38 0.3 0.8 -0.5
Tomas Perez 22 pre-arb 91 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Jacob Brumfield↔ PIT 31 arb 90 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Dane Johnson 33 pre-arb 10 0.2 0.1 +0.0
Paul Spoljaric 25 pre-arb 28 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Jose Silva 22 – 2 -0.0 – –
Miguel Cairo 22 – 9 -0.1 – –
Luis Andujar↔ CHW 23 – 3 -0.1 – –
Scott Brow 27 arb 18 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Tilson Brito 24 pre-arb 26 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Domingo Cedeno↔ CHW 27 arb 77 -0.2 0.2 -0.3
Frank Viola 36 – 6 -0.2 – –
Sandy Martinez 25 pre-arb 76 -0.2 0.2 -0.3
Marty Janzen 23 – 15 -0.2 – –
Mike Huff 32 – 11 -0.3 – –
Bill Risley 29 arb 25 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Julio Mosquera 24 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.1 -0.3
Shannon Stewart 22 – 7 -0.3 – –
Brian Bohanon 27 FA-elig 20 -0.4 0.2 -0.5
Giovanni Carrara↔ CIN 28 pre-arb 11 -0.5 0.1 -0.5
Robert Perez 27 pre-arb 86 -0.6 0.1 -0.6
Joe Carter 36 FA-elig 157 -0.6 6.5 -7.0
Jeff Ware 25 pre-arb 13 -0.6 0.1 -0.6

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (82%). 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.