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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Ross Atkins (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.1
WAB — wins above budget
+3.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record · made playoffs
-26M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.4
roster fWAR
$156.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Josh Donaldson 30 FA-elig 155 6.8 11.7 +10.4
Russell Martin 33 FA-elig 137 3.7 15.0 -3.1
Edwin Encarnación 33 FA-elig 160 3.6 10.0 +1.6
Aaron Sanchez 23 pre-arb 30 3.4 0.5 +10.6
Marcus Stroman 25 pre-arb 32 3.2 0.5 +9.9
J.A. Happ 33 FA-elig 32 2.9 10.0 -0.6
Marco Estrada 32 FA-elig 29 2.7 11.5 -2.9
Devon Travis 25 pre-arb 101 2.7 0.5 +8.1
Troy Tulowitzki 31 FA-elig 131 2.3 20.0 -12.4
Michael Saunders 29 FA-elig 140 2.3 2.9 +4.5
José Bautista 35 FA-elig 116 2.0 14.0 -7.5
Kevin Pillar 27 arb 146 1.8 0.5 +5.3
Roberto Osuna 21 pre-arb 72 1.7 0.5 +5.0
Darwin Barney 30 FA-elig 104 1.3 1.1 +3.0
Joe Biagini 26 pre-arb 60 1.1 0.5 +3.0
R.A. Dickey 41 FA-elig 31 0.8 12.0 -9.4
Francisco Liriano↔ PIT 32 FA-elig 10 0.6 4.1 -2.0
Joaquín Benoit↔ SEA 38 FA-elig 25 0.6 3.9 -1.9
Brett Cecil 29 FA-elig 54 0.4 3.8 -2.5
Danny Barnes 26 pre-arb 12 0.4 0.1 +1.1
Ezequiel Carrera 29 arb 110 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Gavin Floyd 33 FA-elig 28 0.2 1.0 -0.4
Ryan Tepera 28 pre-arb 20 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Jimmy Paredes↔ PHI 27 – 7 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jason Grilli↔ ATL 39 FA-elig 46 0.0 2.4 -2.3
Aaron Loup 28 arb 21 0.0 1.1 -1.0
Scott Feldman↔ HOU 33 FA-elig 14 -0.0 2.8 -2.8
Pat Venditte↔ SEA 31 – 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Matt Dermody 25 – 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Scott Diamond 29 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Andy Burns 25 – 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Dalton Pompey 23 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Dustin Antolin 26 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Franklin Morales 30 FA-elig 5 -0.1 2.0 -2.3
Bo Schultz 30 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Drew Hutchison↔ PIT 25 arb 3 -0.1 0.7 -1.1
Jesse Chavez↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 39 -0.2 2.5 -3.1
Matt Dominguez 26 pre-arb 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Arnold Leon 27 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Junior Lake 26 arb 22 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Drew Storen↔ SEA 28 FA-elig 38 -0.2 5.6 -6.3
Chad Girodo 25 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Dioner Navarro↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 16 -0.2 0.6 -1.4
B.J. Upton↔ SDP 31 FA-elig 57 -0.3 5.9 -6.8
Josh Thole 29 FA-elig 50 -0.3 0.8 -1.7
Darrell Ceciliani 26 pre-arb 13 -0.4 0.1 -1.4
Justin Smoak 29 FA-elig 126 -0.4 3.9 -5.3
Chris Colabello 32 arb 10 -0.4 0.5 -2.0
Ryan Goins 28 arb 77 -0.5 0.5 -2.2

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.