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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: JP Ricciardi (since 2002)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.3
WAB — wins above budget
+2.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
75–87 (0.463)
record
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.7
roster fWAR
$79.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roy Halladay 32 FA-elig 32 6.8 14.2 +1.9
Marco Scutaro 33 FA-elig 144 4.2 1.1 +9.0
Aaron Hill 27 arb 158 4.0 2.6 +6.9
Adam Lind 25 arb 151 3.3 0.4 +7.5
Scott Rolen↔ CIN 34 FA-elig 88 3.1 8.0 -0.7
Ricky Romero 24 pre-arb 29 2.3 0.4 +5.1
Lyle Overbay 32 FA-elig 132 2.0 8.0 -3.1
José Bautista 28 arb 113 1.8 2.4 +1.9
Jason Frasor 31 arb 61 1.4 1.4 +1.8
Brian Tallet 31 FA-elig 37 1.4 1.0 +2.2
Rod Barajas 33 FA-elig 125 1.1 2.5 +0.0
Randy Ruiz 31 – 33 1.0 – –
Alex Rios↔ CHW 28 arb 108 1.0 4.6 -2.2
Marc Rzepczynski 23 – 11 0.9 – –
Scott Downs 33 FA-elig 48 0.8 3.8 -1.9
Brandon League 26 arb 67 0.7 0.6 +1.1
Jesse Carlson 28 pre-arb 73 0.6 0.4 +1.0
Scott Richmond 29 pre-arb 27 0.5 0.4 +0.9
Edwin Encarnación↔ CIN 26 arb 42 0.5 1.2 -0.0
Shawn Camp 33 arb 59 0.5 0.8 +0.4
David Purcey 27 pre-arb 9 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Brett Cecil 22 – 18 0.3 – –
Casey Janssen 27 arb 21 0.2 0.4 +0.0
Robert Ray 25 pre-arb 4 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Brian Burres 28 – 2 0.1 – –
Dirk Hayhurst 28 – 15 0.1 – –
Kyle Phillips 25 – 5 0.1 – –
Bryan Bullington 28 – 4 0.0 – –
Josh Roenicke↔ CIN 26 pre-arb 13 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Michael Barrett 32 FA-elig 7 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Vernon Wells 30 FA-elig 158 -0.1 4.7 -4.9
Jeremy Accardo 27 arb 26 -0.1 0.9 -1.1
Bill Murphy 28 – 8 -0.1 – –
John McDonald 34 FA-elig 73 -0.1 1.9 -2.2
Travis Snider 21 pre-arb 77 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Joe Inglett 31 arb 36 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Jesse Litsch 24 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Russ Adams 28 – 8 -0.2 – –
Brad Mills 24 – 2 -0.3 – –
Raul Chavez 36 FA-elig 51 -0.4 0.5 -1.4
Brian Wolfe 28 pre-arb 14 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
David Dellucci↔ CLE 35 FA-elig 8 -0.5 1.5 -2.6
B.J. Ryan 33 FA-elig 25 -0.6 12.0 -13.4
Kevin Millar 37 FA-elig 78 -1.2 0.8 -3.7

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 of them (77%). 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.