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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Gord Ash (since 1995)

1997 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.7
WAB — wins above budget
-8.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–86 (0.469)
record
-19M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.2
roster fWAR
$48.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roger Clemens 34 FA-elig 34 10.8 8.4 +2.7
Pat Hentgen 28 FA-elig 35 3.7 3.3 +0.5
Orlando Merced 30 FA-elig 98 2.2 2.7 -0.4
Alex Gonzalez 24 arb 126 2.1 0.5 +1.6
Charlie O'Brien 37 FA-elig 69 1.9 0.6 +1.3
Paul Quantrill 28 arb 77 1.9 0.7 +1.2
Carlos Delgado 25 arb 153 1.8 0.5 +1.3
Shawn Green 24 arb 135 1.5 0.5 +1.0
Woody Williams 30 arb 31 1.5 0.4 +1.1
Chris Carpenter 22 pre-arb 14 1.1 0.1 +1.0
Benito Santiago 32 FA-elig 97 0.9 2.5 -1.6
Robert Person 27 pre-arb 23 0.9 0.2 +0.7
Kelvim Escobar 21 pre-arb 27 0.8 0.1 +0.6
Paul Spoljaric↔ SEA 26 arb 37 0.7 0.1 +0.6
Omar Daal↔ WSN 25 arb 9 0.7 0.1 +0.6
Dan Plesac 35 FA-elig 73 0.6 0.8 -0.2
Otis Nixon↔ LAD 38 FA-elig 103 0.5 1.8 -1.2
José Cruz Jr.↔ SEA 23 pre-arb 55 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Juan Samuel 36 FA-elig 45 0.4 0.4 -0.0
Mike Timlin↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 38 0.3 0.8 -0.5
Shannon Stewart 23 pre-arb 44 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Tom Evans 22 – 12 0.1 – –
Erik Hanson 32 FA-elig 3 0.1 3.5 -3.4
Felipe Crespo 24 pre-arb 12 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Julio Mosquera 25 – 3 -0.0 – –
Rich Butler 24 – 7 -0.0 – –
Carlos Almánzar 23 – 4 -0.0 – –
Ken Robinson 27 – 3 -0.0 – –
Luis Andujar 24 pre-arb 17 -0.1 0.2 -0.2
Huck Flener 28 – 8 -0.1 – –
Sandy Martinez 26 – 3 -0.1 – –
Marty Janzen 24 – 12 -0.1 – –
Ed Sprague Jr. 29 FA-elig 138 -0.2 1.9 -2.1
Tomas Perez 23 pre-arb 40 -0.2 0.2 -0.3
Ruben Sierra↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 14 -0.2 2.4 -2.6
Juan Guzman 30 FA-elig 13 -0.2 4.0 -4.2
Robert Perez 28 arb 37 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Jacob Brumfield 32 arb 58 -0.3 1.1 -1.3
Bill Risley 30 arb 3 -0.3 0.4 -0.7
Mariano Duncan↔ NYY 34 FA-elig 39 -0.3 0.4 -0.7
Tim Crabtree 27 pre-arb 37 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
Tilson Brito↔ OAK 25 pre-arb 49 -0.6 0.1 -0.7
Joe Carter 37 FA-elig 157 -1.4 6.5 -7.9
Carlos Garcia 29 FA-elig 103 -2.2 2.5 -4.8

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 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.