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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Gord Ash (since 1995)

1998 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.4
WAB — wins above budget
+4.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–74 (0.543)
record
-4M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.6
roster fWAR
$47.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roger Clemens 35 FA-elig 33 8.2 8.6 +0.3
Carlos Delgado 26 arb 142 5.7 2.4 +3.7
Shawn Green 25 arb 158 3.4 1.5 +2.2
Shannon Stewart 24 arb 144 3.1 0.2 +3.1
Chris Carpenter 23 pre-arb 33 2.8 0.2 +2.8
Tony Fernandez 36 FA-elig 138 2.5 2.0 +0.7
Kelvim Escobar 22 pre-arb 22 1.9 0.2 +1.8
Paul Quantrill 29 FA-elig 82 1.6 1.1 +0.6
José Cruz Jr. 24 pre-arb 105 1.5 0.3 +1.3
Juan Guzman↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 22 1.4 3.3 -1.8
Woody Williams 31 arb 32 1.4 1.6 -0.1
Dan Plesac 36 FA-elig 78 1.3 0.8 +0.6
Jose Canseco 33 FA-elig 151 1.3 2.1 -0.7
Darrin Fletcher 31 FA-elig 124 1.3 1.5 -0.1
Mike Stanley↔ BOS 35 FA-elig 98 1.2 1.2 +0.1
Tony Phillips↔ NYM 39 FA-elig 13 0.8 0.1 +0.7
Craig Grebeck 33 FA-elig 102 0.8 0.4 +0.4
Ed Sprague Jr.↔ OAK 30 FA-elig 105 0.7 1.9 -1.2
Pat Hentgen 29 FA-elig 29 0.6 3.2 -2.6
Kevin Brown 25 pre-arb 52 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Roy Halladay 21 – 2 0.3 – –
Steve Sinclair 26 pre-arb 24 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Randy Myers↔ SDP 35 FA-elig 41 0.3 2.9 -2.6
Alex Gonzalez 25 arb 158 0.3 1.5 -1.2
Mark Dalesandro 30 arb 32 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Pat Lennon 30 – 2 0.1 – –
Carlos Almánzar 24 pre-arb 25 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Ben Van Ryn↔ CHC 26 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Luis Andujar 25 – 5 0.0 – –
Shannon Withem 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Dave Stieb 40 FA-elig 19 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Tomas Perez 24 – 6 -0.0 – –
Benito Santiago 33 FA-elig 15 -0.0 4.0 -4.0
Kevin Witt 22 – 5 -0.1 – –
Felipe Crespo 25 pre-arb 66 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Nerio Rodriguez↔ BAL 27 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Tom Evans 23 – 7 -0.2 – –
Bill Risley 31 FA-elig 44 -0.3 0.4 -0.8
Juan Samuel 37 FA-elig 43 -0.5 0.4 -0.9
Erik Hanson 33 FA-elig 11 -0.5 3.5 -4.1
Robert Person 28 arb 27 -0.9 0.3 -1.2

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 of them (83%). 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.