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Blue Jays TOR

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GM: Ross Atkins (since 2016)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.0
WAB — wins above budget
+5.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
94–68 (0.580)
record · won pennant
-64M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.3
roster fWAR
$219.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
George Springer 35 FA-elig 140 5.2 24.2 -4.3
Alejandro Kirk 26 arb 130 4.7 4.6 +13.3
Kevin Gausman 34 FA-elig 32 4.1 23.0 -7.3
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 26 – 156 3.9 – –
Bo Bichette 27 arb 139 3.8 17.6 -2.9
Ernie Clement 29 pre-arb 157 3.2 2.0 +10.3
Chris Bassitt 36 FA-elig 32 2.4 22.0 -12.7
Daulton Varsho 28 arb 71 2.2 8.2 +0.2
Addison Barger 25 pre-arb 135 2.2 0.7 +7.7
Tyler Heineman 34 pre-arb 64 2.0 0.8 +6.8
Nathan Lukes 30 pre-arb 135 1.8 0.8 +6.2
Myles Straw 30 arb 137 1.8 6.4 +0.5
Eric Lauer 30 arb 28 1.4 1.9 +3.4
Davis Schneider 26 pre-arb 82 1.3 0.7 +4.3
José Berríos 31 FA-elig 31 1.3 19.0 -14.0
Brendon Little 28 pre-arb 79 1.3 0.8 +4.1
Andrés Giménez 26 arb 101 1.0 10.6 -6.6
Braydon Fisher 24 – 52 0.8 0.5 +2.6
Tommy Nance 34 pre-arb 30 0.8 0.3 +2.5
Joey Loperfido 26 pre-arb 41 0.7 0.3 +2.5
Trey Yesavage 21 – 3 0.4 0.1 +1.7
Max Scherzer 40 FA-elig 17 0.4 15.5 -14.0
Seranthony Domínguez↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 24 0.3 2.5 -1.3
Shane Bieber 30 FA-elig 7 0.3 3.2 -2.0
Ty France↔ MIN 30 arb 37 0.2 0.2 +0.7
Louis Varland↔ MIN 27 – 23 0.2 – –
Alan Roden↔ MIN 25 – 43 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Mason Fluharty 23 – 55 0.2 0.6 +0.2
Josh Walker 30 – 3 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Paxton Schultz 27 – 13 0.1 0.4 +0.2
Yimi García 34 FA-elig 22 0.1 7.5 -7.0
Yariel Rodríguez 28 pre-arb 66 0.1 7.0 -6.6
Ali Sánchez↔ BOS 28 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Ryan Burr 31 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.8 -0.6
Nick Sandlin 28 arb 19 0.0 1.6 -1.5
Ryan Borucki↔ PIT 31 FA-elig 4 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Casey Lawrence↔ SEA 37 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Justin Bruihl 28 pre-arb 15 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Jacob Barnes 35 FA-elig 6 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Robinson Piña↔ MIA 26 – 1 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Michael Stefanic 29 – 9 -0.0 – –
Isiah Kiner-Falefa↔ PIT 30 – 19 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Buddy Kennedy↔ LAD 26 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Easton Lucas 28 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.2 -0.4
Will Robertson↔ CHW 27 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Richard Lovelady↔ NYM 29 – 2 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Spencer Turnbull 32 – 3 -0.1 1.0 -1.3
Lazaro Estrada 26 – 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Dillon Tate 31 arb 6 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
José Ureña↔ ANA 33 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Will Wagner↔ SDP 26 – 40 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Erik Swanson 31 – 6 -0.2 3.0 -3.9
Jonatan Clase 23 pre-arb 34 -0.3 0.3 -1.3
Leo Jiménez 24 – 18 -0.3 – –
Jeff Hoffman 32 FA-elig 71 -0.4 8.2 -9.6
Bowden Francis 29 pre-arb 14 -0.8 0.8 -4.0
Chad Green 34 – 45 -0.9 10.5 -14.1
Anthony Santander 30 FA-elig 54 -0.9 9.1 -12.8

58 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 54 of them (93%). 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.