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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2010)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.6
WAB — wins above budget
-2.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–81 (0.500)
record
+4M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.0
roster fWAR
$62.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Bautista 30 FA-elig 149 8.1 8.0 +11.8
Yunel Escobar 28 arb 133 3.6 2.9 +5.8
Brandon Morrow 26 arb 30 2.8 2.3 +4.6
Brett Lawrie 21 – 43 2.6 0.4 +5.9
Ricky Romero 26 pre-arb 32 2.5 1.0 +5.2
José Molina 36 FA-elig 55 2.4 1.2 +4.7
Carlos Villanueva 27 arb 33 1.3 1.4 +1.7
Casey Janssen 29 arb 55 1.2 1.1 +1.8
Jo-Jo Reyes↔ BAL 26 arb 20 1.0 0.3 +2.2
Kelly Johnson↔ ARI 29 FA-elig 33 0.8 1.3 +0.5
Edwin Encarnación 28 FA-elig 134 0.7 2.5 -0.8
Henderson Alvarez 21 – 10 0.7 – –
Eric Thames 24 – 95 0.7 0.3 +1.3
Jesse Litsch 26 arb 28 0.5 0.8 +0.4
John McDonald↔ ARI 36 FA-elig 65 0.5 1.2 -0.0
Brett Cecil 24 pre-arb 20 0.5 0.4 +0.7
Marc Rzepczynski↔ STL 25 pre-arb 43 0.4 0.3 +0.7
Frank Francisco 31 FA-elig 54 0.4 4.0 -3.1
Shawn Camp 35 FA-elig 67 0.3 2.2 -1.6
Jason Frasor↔ CHW 33 FA-elig 44 0.3 2.4 -1.7
Mike McCoy 30 pre-arb 80 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Adam Lind 27 arb 125 0.2 5.2 -4.6
Jayson Nix 28 arb 46 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Joel Carreno 24 – 11 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Chad Beck 26 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Travis Snider 23 arb 49 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Zach Stewart↔ CHW 24 – 3 0.0 0.1 +0.0
P.J. Walters↔ STL 26 – 1 0.0 – –
Scott Richmond 31 – 1 0.0 – –
Luis Perez 26 – 37 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Danny Farquhar 24 – 3 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
David Purcey↔ DET 29 arb 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mark Teahen↔ CHW 29 FA-elig 27 -0.0 1.6 -1.7
Corey Patterson↔ STL 31 FA-elig 89 -0.0 0.6 -0.7
Rommie Lewis 28 – 6 -0.0 – –
Trever Miller↔ BOS 38 FA-elig 6 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Octavio Dotel↔ STL 37 FA-elig 36 -0.1 1.7 -1.9
Dustin McGowan 29 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Wilfredo Ledezma 30 – 5 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Adam Loewen 27 – 14 -0.1 – –
Brian Tallet↔ STL 33 FA-elig 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Brad Mills 26 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Dewayne Wise↔ MIA 33 – 20 -0.1 – –
Darin Mastroianni 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
David Cooper 24 pre-arb 27 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Chris Woodward 35 – 12 -0.2 – –
Kyle Drabek 23 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.4 -1.1
Juan Rivera↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 70 -0.4 2.8 -3.8
J.P. Arencibia 25 pre-arb 129 -0.5 0.4 -1.6
Rajai Davis 30 arb 95 -0.5 2.5 -3.7
Colby Rasmus↔ STL 24 pre-arb 35 -0.5 0.1 -1.5
Jon Rauch 32 FA-elig 53 -0.6 3.5 -4.9
Aaron Hill↔ ARI 29 FA-elig 104 -0.9 3.8 -6.0

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (85%). 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.