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GM: Ross Atkins (since 2016)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.5
WAB — wins above budget
+12.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–70 (0.568)
record · made playoffs
+7M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.9
roster fWAR
$172.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Kevin Gausman 31 FA-elig 31 5.5 21.0 -0.8
Bo Bichette 24 pre-arb 159 4.8 0.8 +16.8
Alejandro Kirk 23 pre-arb 139 4.3 0.7 +14.9
George Springer 32 FA-elig 133 4.0 29.7 -15.0
Alek Manoah 24 pre-arb 31 3.9 0.7 +13.6
Matt Chapman 29 arb 155 3.9 12.5 +1.6
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 23 arb 160 3.3 7.9 +4.2
Teoscar Hernández 29 FA-elig 131 3.0 10.7 +0.4
Ross Stripling 32 FA-elig 32 3.0 3.8 +7.2
Danny Jansen 27 arb 72 2.7 1.9 +7.8
Santiago Espinal 27 pre-arb 135 2.4 0.7 +7.9
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 28 arb 121 1.5 4.9 +0.6
Jordan Romano 29 pre-arb 63 1.5 0.7 +4.8
Cavan Biggio 27 arb 97 1.3 2.1 +2.7
José Berríos 28 FA-elig 32 0.9 10.7 -7.5
Adam Cimber 31 arb 77 0.8 1.6 +1.4
Yimi García 31 FA-elig 61 0.8 4.5 -1.6
Gabriel Moreno 22 – 25 0.8 0.2 +2.6
David Phelps 35 FA-elig 65 0.7 3.5 -1.0
Whit Merrifield↔ KCR 33 FA-elig 44 0.7 2.2 +0.2
Raimel Tapia 28 FA-elig 128 0.5 4.0 -2.0
Mitch White↔ LAD 27 pre-arb 10 0.5 0.2 +1.8
Jackie Bradley Jr.↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 40 0.2 2.9 -2.1
Zach Pop↔ MIA 25 pre-arb 18 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Trevor Richards 29 arb 62 0.1 1.0 -0.5
Tyler Heineman↔ PIT 31 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Otto Lopez 23 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Gosuke Katoh 27 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Julian Merryweather 30 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Zack Collins↔ PIT 27 – 26 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Hyun Jin Ryu 35 FA-elig 6 0.1 20.0 -19.8
Vinny Capra 25 – 8 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Matt Gage 29 – 11 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Foster Griffin↔ KCR 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Bowden Francis 26 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Max Castillo↔ KCR 23 – 9 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Anthony Kay 27 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Shaun Anderson 27 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Tim Mayza 30 arb 63 -0.0 1.2 -1.3
Anthony Banda↔ NYY 28 – 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Sergio Romo↔ SEA 39 FA-elig 6 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Andrew Vasquez↔ SFG 28 – 9 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Trent Thornton 28 arb 32 -0.1 0.8 -1.3
Anthony Bass↔ MIA 34 FA-elig 28 -0.1 1.1 -1.5
Jeremy Beasley 26 – 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Ryan Borucki↔ SEA 28 arb 11 -0.3 0.3 -1.3
Thomas Hatch 27 pre-arb 1 -0.3 0.0 -1.0
Bradley Zimmer↔ PHI 29 – 100 -0.4 0.9 -2.2
Casey Lawrence 34 – 6 -0.4 – –
Tayler Saucedo 29 pre-arb 4 -0.4 0.7 -2.2
Yusei Kikuchi 31 arb 32 -0.9 16.0 -19.2

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 of them (98%). 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.