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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2010)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.8
WAB — wins above budget
-0.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record
-24M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.0
roster fWAR
$129.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Bautista 33 FA-elig 155 6.2 14.0 +4.0
José Reyes 31 FA-elig 143 3.8 16.0 -5.0
Mark Buehrle 35 FA-elig 32 3.7 18.0 -7.2
Edwin Encarnación 31 FA-elig 128 3.7 9.0 +1.7
Marcus Stroman 23 – 32 3.4 0.4 +9.6
Melky Cabrera 29 FA-elig 139 3.1 8.0 +1.1
Drew Hutchison 23 pre-arb 35 2.7 0.5 +7.4
Adam Lind 30 FA-elig 96 1.7 7.0 -2.0
R.A. Dickey 39 FA-elig 35 1.6 12.0 -7.2
Brett Lawrie 24 arb 70 1.6 0.5 +4.2
Colby Rasmus 27 arb 104 1.5 7.0 -2.6
Brett Cecil 27 arb 66 1.2 1.3 +2.3
J.A. Happ 31 FA-elig 30 1.2 5.2 -1.7
Juan Francisco 27 pre-arb 106 1.2 0.4 +2.9
Anthony Gose 23 pre-arb 94 0.9 0.3 +2.4
Aaron Sanchez 21 – 24 0.6 0.2 +1.5
Aaron Loup 26 pre-arb 71 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Erik Kratz↔ KCR 34 arb 34 0.4 0.4 +0.8
Todd Redmond 29 pre-arb 42 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Kevin Pillar 25 pre-arb 53 0.4 0.2 +0.9
Brandon Morrow 29 FA-elig 13 0.4 8.0 -7.0
Munenori Kawasaki 33 – 82 0.4 – –
Maicer Izturis 33 FA-elig 11 0.3 3.0 -2.3
Dalton Pompey 21 – 17 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Chad Jenkins 26 pre-arb 21 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Casey Janssen 32 FA-elig 50 0.1 4.0 -3.7
Steve Tolleson 30 – 109 0.1 – –
Kendall Graveman 23 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Danny Valencia↔ KCR 29 arb 50 0.1 0.6 -0.5
Kyle Drabek 26 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.0 +0.1
Bobby Korecky 34 – 2 0.0 – –
John Mayberry Jr.↔ PHI 30 arb 15 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Neil Wagner 30 – 10 0.0 – –
Jonathan Diaz 29 – 23 0.0 – –
Jeremy Jeffress↔ MIL 26 arb 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Nolan Reimold↔ ARI 30 – 22 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Rob Rasmussen 25 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Sean Nolin 24 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
George Kottaras↔ CLE 31 arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Cole Gillespie↔ SEA 30 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Daniel Norris 21 – 5 -0.1 – –
Chris Getz 30 – 10 -0.2 – –
Liam Hendriks↔ KCR 25 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
Darin Mastroianni↔ MIN 28 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Esmil Rogers↔ NYY 28 arb 16 -0.2 0.9 -1.6
Brad Mills↔ OAK 29 – 2 -0.3 – –
Dan Johnson 34 arb 15 -0.3 0.2 -1.0
Dustin McGowan 32 FA-elig 53 -0.3 1.5 -2.4
Brad Glenn 27 – 6 -0.3 – –
Josh Thole 27 arb 57 -0.4 1.2 -2.4
Steve Delabar 30 arb 30 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Sergio Santos 30 arb 27 -0.5 3.8 -5.3
Ryan Goins 26 pre-arb 67 -0.6 0.5 -2.1
Moisés Sierra↔ CHW 25 pre-arb 13 -0.7 0.1 -2.1
Dioner Navarro 30 FA-elig 139 -0.8 3.0 -5.2

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 46 of them (84%). 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.