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GM: Michael Rizzo (since 2010)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-16.5 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-18.4 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
26–34 (0.433)
record
-112M
surplus $M (value/$)
7.5
roster fWAR
$169.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Trea Turner 27 arb 59 2.8 7.5 +12.8
Juan Soto 21 pre-arb 47 2.5 0.2 +18.1
Max Scherzer 35 FA-elig 12 1.8 35.9 -22.5
Patrick Corbin 30 FA-elig 11 1.2 19.4 -10.7
Andrew Stevenson 26 pre-arb 15 0.9 0.1 +6.3
Wander Suero 28 pre-arb 22 0.5 0.2 +3.6
Asdrúbal Cabrera 34 FA-elig 52 0.4 2.5 +0.3
Yan Gomes 32 FA-elig 30 0.4 4.0 -1.4
Kyle Finnegan 28 – 25 0.3 0.2 +2.2
Tanner Rainey 27 pre-arb 20 0.3 0.2 +1.7
Aníbal Sánchez 36 FA-elig 11 0.2 7.0 -5.6
Ben Braymer 26 – 3 0.2 0.1 +1.2
Josh Harrison 32 FA-elig 33 0.2 0.3 +0.9
Kurt Suzuki 36 FA-elig 33 0.1 6.0 -5.0
Starlin Castro 30 FA-elig 16 0.1 5.0 -4.0
Kyle McGowin 28 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.1 +0.8
Will Harris 35 FA-elig 20 0.1 8.0 -7.4
Paolo Espino 33 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.0 +0.6
Javy Guerra 34 arb 14 0.0 0.4 -0.0
Stephen Strasburg 31 FA-elig 2 0.0 35.0 -34.7
Sam Freeman 33 arb 7 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Ryne Harper 31 pre-arb 23 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Aaron Barrett 32 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Jake Noll 26 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.0 -0.3
Dakota Bacus 29 – 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Seth Romero 24 – 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.8
Emilio Bonifácio 35 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.8
Victor Robles 23 pre-arb 52 -0.1 0.2 -1.1
Michael A. Taylor 29 FA-elig 38 -0.1 3.3 -4.3
James Bourque 26 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.1 -1.3
Brock Holt↔ MIL 32 FA-elig 21 -0.2 1.4 -2.6
Yadiel Hernandez 32 – 12 -0.2 0.0 -1.2
Austin Voth 28 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.2 -1.7
Carter Kieboom 22 pre-arb 33 -0.2 0.2 -1.7
Howie Kendrick 36 FA-elig 25 -0.2 6.2 -7.9
Wilmer Difo 28 arb 12 -0.2 1.0 -2.8
Sean Doolittle 33 FA-elig 11 -0.3 6.5 -8.3
Erick Fedde 27 pre-arb 11 -0.3 0.2 -2.2
Adam Eaton 31 FA-elig 41 -0.3 9.5 -11.9
Daniel Hudson 33 FA-elig 21 -0.4 5.0 -7.9
Luis García Jr. 20 – 40 -0.4 – –
Wil Crowe 25 – 3 -0.5 0.0 -3.4
Eric Thames 33 FA-elig 41 -0.6 3.0 -7.4

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 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 WSN
Dennis Martínez198622.5
Gio Gonzalez201120.8
Trea Turner201519.4
Liván Hernández200317.2
Bryn Smith197716.4
Moisés Alou199013.8
Tanner Roark201012.8
Mike Lansing199112.0
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Grady Sizemore200230.3
Cliff Lee200214.7
Tim Raines199014.5
Lucas Giolito201613.5
Cliff Floyd199713.2
Gary Carter198412.8
Maicer Izturis200412.2
Carl Pavano20028.1
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.