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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Ross Atkins (since 2016)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+8.1 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-6.2 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
32–28 (0.533)
record · made playoffs
-24M
surplus $M (value/$)
9.1
roster fWAR
$89.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Hyun Jin Ryu 33 FA-elig 12 1.9 20.0 -6.1
Teoscar Hernández 27 pre-arb 50 1.5 0.2 +10.4
Cavan Biggio 25 pre-arb 59 1.4 0.2 +9.8
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 26 pre-arb 57 1.3 2.9 +6.3
Bo Bichette 22 pre-arb 29 0.9 0.2 +6.1
Randal Grichuk 28 FA-elig 55 0.7 13.0 -8.0
Rafael Dolis 32 FA-elig 24 0.6 1.0 +3.3
Julian Merryweather 28 – 8 0.5 0.1 +3.8
Rowdy Tellez 25 pre-arb 35 0.5 0.2 +3.1
Taijuan Walker↔ SEA 27 FA-elig 6 0.4 1.1 +2.1
Anthony Bass 32 FA-elig 26 0.4 1.5 +1.7
Jordan Romano 27 pre-arb 15 0.4 0.2 +2.7
Danny Jansen 25 pre-arb 43 0.4 0.2 +2.5
Thomas Hatch 25 – 17 0.3 0.2 +1.8
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 21 – 60 0.3 – –
Ross Stripling↔ LAD 30 arb 5 0.3 0.9 +1.0
A.J. Cole 28 arb 24 0.2 0.1 +1.7
Ryan Borucki 26 pre-arb 21 0.2 0.2 +1.2
Santiago Espinal 25 – 27 0.2 0.2 +1.2
Trent Thornton 26 pre-arb 3 0.2 0.2 +1.1
Jonathan Davis 28 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.1 +1.0
Brian Moran↔ MIA 31 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.8
Alejandro Kirk 21 – 9 0.1 0.1 +0.8
Sean Reid-Foley 24 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.0 +0.6
T.J. Zeuch 24 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.0 +0.6
Robbie Ray↔ ARI 28 FA-elig 5 0.1 3.9 -3.3
Patrick Murphy 25 – 4 0.1 0.0 +0.6
Billy McKinney 25 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Joe Panik 29 arb 41 0.1 1.1 -0.6
Travis Bergen↔ ARI 26 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.3
Jacob Waguespack 26 pre-arb 11 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Wilmer Font 30 pre-arb 21 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Travis Shaw 30 arb 50 -0.1 4.0 -4.4
Anthony Alford↔ PIT 25 – 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Matt Shoemaker 33 FA-elig 6 -0.1 4.2 -4.7
Caleb Joseph 34 arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Daniel Vogelbach↔ MIL 27 – 2 -0.1 – –
Hector Perez 24 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Anthony Kay 25 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.5 -1.1
Sam Gaviglio 30 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.8
Derek Fisher 26 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.2 -1.0
Chase Anderson 32 arb 10 -0.1 3.1 -4.2
Ken Giles 29 FA-elig 4 -0.2 9.6 -11.1
Nate Pearson 23 – 5 -0.2 0.2 -2.0
Shun Yamaguchi 32 – 17 -0.5 1.2 -4.5
Tanner Roark 33 FA-elig 11 -0.5 12.0 -15.7
Brandon Drury 27 arb 21 -0.5 2.0 -5.8
Jonathan Villar↔ MIA 29 FA-elig 22 -0.7 3.5 -8.4
Reese McGuire 25 pre-arb 19 -0.7 0.1 -5.2

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (96%). 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.