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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2010)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-10.6
WAB — wins above budget
-10.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-56M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.5
roster fWAR
$126.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Bautista 32 FA-elig 118 4.1 14.0 -3.1
Edwin Encarnación 30 FA-elig 142 4.0 8.0 +2.7
Colby Rasmus 26 arb 118 3.9 4.7 +5.7
José Reyes 30 FA-elig 93 2.5 10.0 -3.4
Mark Buehrle 34 FA-elig 33 2.1 11.0 -5.3
R.A. Dickey 38 FA-elig 34 1.9 5.0 +0.2
Adam Lind 29 FA-elig 143 1.6 5.0 -0.7
Brett Lawrie 23 pre-arb 107 1.6 0.5 +3.7
Steve Delabar 29 pre-arb 55 1.2 0.5 +2.8
Rajai Davis 32 FA-elig 108 1.2 2.5 +0.7
Casey Janssen 31 FA-elig 56 1.2 3.9 -0.7
J.A. Happ 30 FA-elig 18 1.0 3.7 -1.0
Brett Cecil 26 arb 60 0.9 0.5 +1.9
Sergio Santos 29 arb 29 0.9 2.8 -0.5
Munenori Kawasaki 32 pre-arb 96 0.7 0.4 +1.5
Todd Redmond 28 pre-arb 17 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Aaron Loup 25 pre-arb 64 0.6 0.5 +1.2
Josh Johnson 29 FA-elig 16 0.4 13.8 -12.6
Moisés Sierra 24 pre-arb 35 0.4 0.1 +1.0
J.P. Arencibia 27 arb 138 0.3 0.5 +0.2
Mark DeRosa 38 FA-elig 88 0.2 0.8 -0.2
Juan Pablo Perez 34 – 19 0.2 – –
Chad Jenkins 25 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Dustin McGowan 31 FA-elig 25 0.1 1.5 -1.1
Ryan Goins 25 – 34 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Luis Perez 28 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Mickey Storey 27 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Neil Wagner 29 pre-arb 36 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Anthony Gose 22 pre-arb 52 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Ryan Langerhans 33 – 4 0.1 – –
Jeremy Jeffress 25 arb 10 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Darren Oliver 42 FA-elig 50 0.1 3.0 -2.9
Esmil Rogers 27 arb 46 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Mike Nickeas 30 – 1 0.0 – –
Justin Germano 30 – 1 -0.0 – –
Thad Weber↔ SDP 28 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Andy LaRoche 29 – 1 -0.1 – –
Aaron Laffey↔ NYM 28 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Kyle Drabek 25 arb 3 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Sean Nolin 23 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Chien-Ming Wang 33 FA-elig 6 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Kevin Pillar 24 – 36 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Brandon Morrow 28 FA-elig 10 -0.2 8.0 -8.5
Dave Bush 33 FA-elig 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Melky Cabrera 28 FA-elig 88 -0.2 8.0 -8.6
Edgar Gonzalez↔ HOU 30 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Ricky Romero 28 arb 4 -0.3 7.5 -8.2
Brad Lincoln 28 pre-arb 22 -0.4 0.2 -1.3
Emilio Bonifácio↔ KCR 28 FA-elig 94 -0.5 1.8 -3.1
Josh Thole 26 arb 45 -0.5 1.2 -2.5
Henry Blanco↔ SEA 41 FA-elig 15 -0.5 0.2 -1.6
Ramon Ortiz 40 FA-elig 7 -0.5 0.4 -1.8
Maicer Izturis 32 FA-elig 107 -1.6 3.0 -7.4

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (91%). 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.