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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2010)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.6
WAB — wins above budget
-11.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
-28M
surplus $M (value/$)
20.9
roster fWAR
$82.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Edwin Encarnación 29 FA-elig 151 4.6 3.5 +8.2
José Bautista 31 FA-elig 92 3.1 14.0 -6.0
Brandon Morrow 27 arb 21 2.4 4.0 +2.2
Brett Lawrie 22 pre-arb 125 1.9 0.5 +4.5
Jeff Mathis 29 FA-elig 71 1.7 1.5 +2.9
Yunel Escobar 29 arb 145 1.3 5.0 -1.6
Colby Rasmus 25 arb 151 1.2 2.7 +0.3
J.A. Happ↔ HOU 29 arb 10 1.1 0.7 +2.1
Casey Janssen 30 FA-elig 62 1.1 2.0 +0.8
Darren Oliver 41 FA-elig 62 1.1 4.0 -1.2
Aaron Loup 24 – 33 0.8 0.2 +2.0
Rajai Davis 31 FA-elig 142 0.7 2.8 -0.9
Kelly Johnson 30 FA-elig 142 0.7 6.4 -4.6
Carlos Villanueva 28 FA-elig 38 0.6 2.3 -0.7
J.P. Arencibia 26 pre-arb 102 0.6 0.5 +1.1
Anthony Gose 21 – 56 0.6 – –
Steve Delabar↔ SEA 28 pre-arb 27 0.5 0.2 +1.1
Drew Hutchison 21 – 11 0.5 0.5 +0.7
Luis Perez 27 pre-arb 35 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Brandon Lyon↔ HOU 32 FA-elig 30 0.4 2.5 -1.4
Ricky Romero 27 arb 32 0.4 5.0 -4.0
Henderson Alvarez 22 pre-arb 31 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Jason Frasor 34 FA-elig 50 0.2 3.8 -3.2
Travis Snider↔ PIT 24 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Brett Cecil 25 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.5 -0.3
David Cooper 25 pre-arb 45 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Chad Beck 27 pre-arb 15 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Yorvit Torrealba↔ MIL 33 FA-elig 10 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Ryota Igarashi↔ NYY 33 – 2 -0.0 – –
Sam Dyson 24 – 2 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Shawn Hill 31 – 1 -0.0 – –
Scott Richmond 32 – 3 -0.0 – –
Ben Francisco↔ HOU 30 arb 27 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
David Carpenter↔ HOU 26 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Bobby Korecky 32 – 1 -0.1 – –
Robert Coello 27 – 6 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Adeiny Hechavarría 23 pre-arb 41 -0.1 1.8 -2.0
Adam Lind 28 FA-elig 93 -0.1 5.0 -5.3
Yan Gomes 24 – 43 -0.1 – –
David Pauley↔ ANA 29 – 5 -0.1 – –
Chad Jenkins 24 – 13 -0.1 – –
Brad Lincoln↔ PIT 27 – 24 -0.2 – –
Kyle Drabek 24 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Sergio Santos 28 pre-arb 6 -0.2 1.0 -1.5
Mike McCoy 31 pre-arb 32 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Drew Carpenter 27 – 6 -0.2 – –
Jesse Chavez↔ OAK 28 – 9 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Evan Crawford 25 pre-arb 10 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Moisés Sierra 23 pre-arb 49 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Aaron Laffey 27 arb 22 -0.3 0.8 -1.6
Francisco Cordero↔ HOU 37 FA-elig 41 -0.5 3.9 -5.1
Joel Carreno 25 pre-arb 11 -0.6 0.5 -1.9
Eric Thames↔ SEA 25 pre-arb 46 -0.7 0.3 -2.1
Omar Vizquel 45 FA-elig 60 -0.9 0.8 -3.0

54 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 of them (81%). 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.