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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Ross Atkins (since 2016)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-11.4
WAB — wins above budget
-6.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-82M
surplus $M (value/$)
31.1
roster fWAR
$209.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 25 arb 159 5.3 19.9 +2.1
Daulton Varsho 27 arb 136 3.2 5.7 +7.6
Kevin Gausman 33 FA-elig 31 3.0 22.0 -9.5
Alejandro Kirk 25 arb 103 2.7 2.8 +8.6
Chris Bassitt 35 FA-elig 31 2.3 22.0 -12.3
Yusei Kikuchi↔ HOU 33 arb 22 2.2 6.9 +2.4
Ernie Clement 28 arb 139 2.1 0.8 +8.2
Isiah Kiner-Falefa↔ PIT 29 FA-elig 83 2.0 4.7 +3.7
Spencer Horwitz 26 pre-arb 97 1.9 0.7 +7.0
José Berríos 30 FA-elig 32 1.1 17.7 -13.0
Yariel Rodríguez 27 pre-arb 21 1.1 3.6 +0.9
George Springer 34 FA-elig 145 1.1 24.2 -19.8
Bowden Francis 28 pre-arb 27 1.0 0.7 +3.6
Yimi García↔ SEA 33 FA-elig 29 0.8 4.5 -1.2
Nathan Lukes 29 pre-arb 22 0.7 0.7 +2.0
Will Wagner 25 – 24 0.6 0.2 +2.3
Danny Jansen↔ BOS 29 FA-elig 63 0.5 3.5 -1.3
Leo Jiménez 23 – 63 0.5 – –
Ryan Burr 30 pre-arb 34 0.5 0.4 +1.6
Justin Turner↔ SEA 39 FA-elig 91 0.5 8.5 -6.6
Cavan Biggio↔ ATL 29 arb 44 0.4 2.4 -0.6
Steward Berroa 25 – 28 0.4 0.3 +1.3
Davis Schneider 25 pre-arb 135 0.4 0.7 +0.8
Kevin Kiermaier↔ LAD 34 FA-elig 82 0.3 7.4 -6.0
Bo Bichette 26 arb 81 0.3 12.1 -10.9
Ryan Yarbrough↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 12 0.3 1.1 +0.1
Jonatan Clase↔ SEA 22 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.2 +0.8
Trevor Richards↔ MIN 31 FA-elig 45 0.1 1.8 -1.3
Tyler Heineman↔ BOS 33 arb 6 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Chad Green 33 FA-elig 53 0.1 10.5 -10.2
Tommy Nance 33 pre-arb 20 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Dillon Tate↔ BAL 30 arb 4 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Alek Manoah 26 arb 5 0.0 0.8 -0.6
Nick Robertson↔ STL 25 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Brandon Eisert 26 – 3 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Brett de Geus↔ MIA 26 arb 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mitch White↔ MIL 29 – 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Nate Pearson↔ CHC 27 arb 41 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Orelvis Martinez 22 – 1 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Luis Frías↔ ARI 26 arb 4 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Wes Parsons↔ CLE 31 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.4 -0.9
Luis De Los Santos 26 – 13 -0.1 – –
Yerry Rodríguez↔ TEX 26 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.8
Easton Lucas↔ DET 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.2 -0.8
Tim Mayza↔ NYY 32 FA-elig 35 -0.2 2.5 -3.2
Brian Serven 29 pre-arb 28 -0.2 0.8 -1.4
Jose Cuas↔ CHC 30 – 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Paolo Espino 37 pre-arb 3 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Joey Loperfido↔ HOU 25 pre-arb 43 -0.3 0.4 -1.6
Jordan Romano 31 arb 15 -0.3 7.8 -9.0
Brendon Little 27 pre-arb 49 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
Daniel Vogelbach 31 FA-elig 31 -0.3 2.0 -3.4
Addison Barger 24 pre-arb 69 -0.3 0.7 -2.1
Génesis Cabrera 27 arb 69 -0.4 1.5 -3.3
Zach Pop 27 arb 58 -0.6 0.8 -3.4
Erik Swanson 30 arb 45 -0.6 2.8 -5.4

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 54 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.