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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2010)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.4
WAB — wins above budget
+15.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
+31M
surplus $M (value/$)
50.4
roster fWAR
$127.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Josh Donaldson 29 arb 158 8.7 4.3 +23.2
José Bautista 34 FA-elig 153 5.2 14.0 +2.4
Edwin Encarnación 32 FA-elig 146 4.5 10.0 +4.3
Russell Martin 32 FA-elig 129 4.5 7.0 +7.1
Kevin Pillar 26 pre-arb 159 3.7 0.5 +11.2
David Price↔ DET 29 FA-elig 11 2.6 6.8 +1.3
Devon Travis 24 – 62 2.2 0.5 +6.4
Mark Buehrle 36 FA-elig 32 2.0 20.0 -13.7
Marco Estrada 31 FA-elig 34 1.9 3.9 +2.1
R.A. Dickey 40 FA-elig 33 1.8 12.0 -6.5
Liam Hendriks 26 arb 58 1.5 0.5 +4.3
Chris Colabello 31 pre-arb 101 1.4 0.4 +4.0
Drew Hutchison 24 arb 31 1.4 0.5 +3.8
Brett Cecil 28 FA-elig 63 1.3 2.5 +1.7
Danny Valencia↔ OAK 30 arb 58 1.3 0.9 +3.2
Roberto Osuna 20 – 68 1.3 0.5 +3.6
Ryan Goins 27 pre-arb 128 1.3 0.5 +3.5
Troy Tulowitzki↔ COL 30 FA-elig 41 1.2 6.4 -2.6
José Reyes↔ COL 32 FA-elig 69 1.0 13.1 -10.1
Ben Revere↔ PHI 27 arb 56 0.7 1.5 +0.8
Justin Smoak 28 arb 132 0.7 1.0 +1.1
Marcus Stroman 24 pre-arb 4 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Félix Doubront↔ OAK 27 – 5 0.4 0.1 +1.2
LaTroy Hawkins↔ COL 42 FA-elig 18 0.3 1.0 -0.2
Scott Copeland 27 – 5 0.2 0.0 +0.7
Aaron Sanchez 22 pre-arb 41 0.2 1.0 -0.3
Dioner Navarro 31 FA-elig 54 0.2 5.0 -4.3
Aaron Loup 27 arb 60 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Steve Tolleson 31 arb 19 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Mark Lowe↔ SEA 32 FA-elig 23 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Ezequiel Carrera 28 pre-arb 91 0.1 0.4 -0.0
Darwin Barney↔ LAD 29 arb 15 0.1 2.2 -1.9
Munenori Kawasaki 34 pre-arb 23 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Daniel Norris↔ DET 22 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Dalton Pompey 22 pre-arb 34 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Colt Hynes 30 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Rob Rasmussen↔ SEA 26 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Michael Saunders 28 FA-elig 9 0.0 2.9 -2.9
Matt Hague 29 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Jonathan Diaz 30 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Jeff Francis 34 FA-elig 14 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Chad Jenkins 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Phil Coke↔ CHC 32 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Todd Redmond 30 arb 7 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Miguel Castro↔ COL 20 – 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Andrew Albers 29 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
Josh Thole 28 FA-elig 18 -0.2 1.8 -2.4
Cliff Pennington↔ ARI 31 FA-elig 33 -0.2 1.0 -1.7
Steve Delabar 31 pre-arb 31 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Bo Schultz 29 – 31 -0.3 0.4 -1.3
Matthew Boyd↔ DET 24 – 2 -0.4 0.0 -1.2
Ryan Tepera 27 – 32 -0.5 0.3 -1.7

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.