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GM: Michael Rizzo (since 2010)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-24.9
WAB — wins above budget
-24.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
55–107 (0.340)
record
-93M
surplus $M (value/$)
8.1
roster fWAR
$121.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Josh Bell↔ SDP 29 FA-elig 103 2.8 6.6 +3.5
Juan Soto↔ SDP 23 arb 101 2.5 11.3 -2.2
Joey Meneses 30 – 56 1.7 0.7 +5.6
Keibert Ruiz 23 pre-arb 112 1.5 0.7 +4.9
Ildemaro Vargas↔ CHC 30 arb 53 1.4 0.1 +5.1
Lane Thomas 26 pre-arb 146 1.4 0.7 +4.3
Hunter Harvey 27 pre-arb 38 1.0 0.7 +2.9
Patrick Corbin 32 FA-elig 31 0.7 23.4 -20.8
Kyle Finnegan 30 pre-arb 66 0.6 0.7 +1.4
César Hernández 32 FA-elig 147 0.5 4.0 -2.3
Alex Call↔ CLE 27 – 35 0.4 0.1 +1.4
Victor Robles 25 arb 132 0.4 1.6 -0.1
Erasmo Ramírez 32 FA-elig 60 0.3 0.1 +1.1
Víctor Arano 27 pre-arb 43 0.3 0.9 +0.2
Erick Fedde 29 arb 27 0.3 2.1 -1.1
Sean Doolittle 35 FA-elig 6 0.3 1.5 -0.5
Tanner Rainey 29 arb 29 0.2 0.9 -0.0
Luis García Jr. 22 – 93 0.2 – –
Yadiel Hernandez 34 pre-arb 94 0.2 0.7 +0.0
Carl Edwards Jr. 30 – 57 0.1 – –
Jordan Weems 29 pre-arb 32 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Joan Adon 23 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.3 -0.0
Cade Cavalli 23 – 1 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Mason Thompson 24 pre-arb 24 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Stephen Strasburg 33 FA-elig 1 0.0 35.0 -35.0
Jake McGee↔ MIL 35 FA-elig 12 -0.0 0.9 -0.9
Evan Lee 25 – 4 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Patrick Murphy 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Austin Voth↔ BAL 30 arb 19 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Luke Voit↔ SDP 31 arb 53 -0.1 2.1 -2.5
Aaron Sanchez↔ MIN 29 FA-elig 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Reed Garrett 29 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Jackson Tetreault 26 – 4 -0.1 0.4 -0.9
Tyler Clippard 37 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Andrés Machado 29 pre-arb 51 -0.1 0.6 -1.1
Paolo Espino 35 pre-arb 42 -0.2 0.7 -1.3
Francisco Pérez 24 pre-arb 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Sam Clay↔ NYM 29 – 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Israel Pineda 22 – 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Joshua Palacios 26 pre-arb 29 -0.2 0.2 -1.1
Aníbal Sánchez 38 FA-elig 14 -0.2 2.0 -2.9
CJ Abrams↔ SDP 21 – 44 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Josh Rogers 27 – 16 -0.3 0.4 -1.6
Steve Cishek 36 FA-elig 69 -0.3 1.8 -3.0
Alcides Escobar 35 FA-elig 42 -0.3 1.0 -2.2
Dee Strange-Gordon 34 – 23 -0.4 0.3 -1.9
Tres Barrera 27 pre-arb 19 -0.4 0.3 -1.9
Maikel Franco 29 FA-elig 103 -0.4 0.7 -2.3
Tommy Romero↔ TBR 24 – 1 -0.4 0.0 -1.6
Nelson Cruz 41 FA-elig 124 -0.5 12.0 -13.7
Cory Abbott 26 pre-arb 16 -0.5 0.3 -2.1
Lucius Fox 24 pre-arb 10 -0.6 0.1 -2.2
Ehire Adrianza↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 31 -0.7 1.3 -3.7
Josiah Gray 24 pre-arb 28 -0.7 0.7 -3.4
Riley Adams 26 pre-arb 48 -1.0 0.5 -4.0

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 53 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 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.