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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Gord Ash (since 1995)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.6
WAB — wins above budget
+3.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
84–78 (0.519)
record
+2M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.6
roster fWAR
$46.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Shawn Green 26 FA-elig 153 6.0 3.1 +4.4
David Wells 36 FA-elig 34 3.8 4.8 -0.0
Carlos Delgado 27 FA-elig 152 3.6 5.1 -0.5
Tony Batista↔ ARI 25 arb 98 3.6 0.3 +4.3
Chris Carpenter 24 pre-arb 24 2.9 0.5 +3.2
Homer Bush 26 pre-arb 128 2.8 0.2 +3.3
Tony Fernandez 37 FA-elig 142 2.5 2.2 +0.9
José Cruz Jr. 25 pre-arb 106 2.5 0.4 +2.7
Kelvim Escobar 23 pre-arb 33 2.3 0.3 +2.5
Darrin Fletcher 32 FA-elig 115 2.2 2.6 +0.2
Pat Hentgen 30 FA-elig 34 1.9 8.6 -6.3
Shannon Stewart 25 arb 145 1.6 0.4 +1.6
Alex Gonzalez 26 arb 38 1.3 2.3 -0.6
Billy Koch 24 pre-arb 56 1.0 0.2 +1.0
Joey Hamilton 28 arb 22 0.9 4.2 -3.1
Roy Halladay 22 pre-arb 36 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Pete Munro 24 pre-arb 31 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Norberto Martin 32 – 9 0.3 – –
Paul Spoljaric↔ PHI 28 arb 37 0.3 0.4 +0.0
David Segui↔ SEA 32 FA-elig 31 0.3 0.6 -0.3
Paul Quantrill 30 FA-elig 41 0.2 0.5 -0.2
John Frascatore↔ ARI 29 arb 33 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Dan Plesac↔ ARI 37 FA-elig 30 0.2 0.7 -0.5
Craig Grebeck 34 FA-elig 34 0.2 0.6 -0.3
Jacob Brumfield↔ LAD 34 FA-elig 62 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Kevin Brown 26 – 2 0.1 – –
Tom Davey↔ SEA 25 pre-arb 29 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Chris Woodward 23 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Graeme Lloyd 32 FA-elig 74 0.1 1.0 -0.9
Pat Borders↔ CLE 36 FA-elig 6 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Pat Kelly 31 – 37 0.0 – –
Gary Glover 22 – 1 -0.0 – –
Eric Ludwick 27 arb 1 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
John Hudek↔ ATL 32 arb 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
John Bale 25 – 1 -0.0 – –
Mike Romano 27 – 3 -0.1 – –
Curtis Goodwin↔ CHC 26 arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Willis Otáñez↔ BAL 26 pre-arb 42 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Casey Blake 25 – 14 -0.1 – –
Anthony Sanders 25 – 3 -0.1 – –
Vernon Wells 20 pre-arb 24 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Mike Matheny 28 arb 57 -0.2 0.6 -0.8
Brian McRae↔ COL 31 FA-elig 31 -0.2 0.9 -1.1
Geronimo Berroa 34 FA-elig 22 -0.2 0.5 -0.7
Rob Butler 29 FA-elig 8 -0.2 0.3 -0.5
Kevin Witt 23 – 15 -0.3 – –
Pat Lennon 31 – 9 -0.3 – –
Nerio Rodriguez 28 – 2 -0.3 – –
Mark Dalesandro 31 – 16 -0.3 – –
Steve Sinclair↔ SEA 27 – 3 -0.3 – –
Robert Person↔ PHI 29 arb 11 -0.3 0.1 -0.5
Dave Hollins 33 FA-elig 27 -0.6 1.9 -2.7
Willie Greene 27 FA-elig 81 -0.9 1.0 -2.1

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (75%). 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.