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GM: Michael Rizzo (since 2010)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.1
WAB — wins above budget
-8.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
71–91 (0.438)
record
-4M
surplus $M (value/$)
15.5
roster fWAR
$66.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jeimer Candelario↔ CHC 29 FA-elig 99 3.0 3.5 +8.4
Lane Thomas 27 arb 157 2.9 2.2 +9.2
CJ Abrams 22 pre-arb 151 2.3 0.7 +8.2
Josiah Gray 25 pre-arb 30 1.6 0.7 +5.5
Hunter Harvey 28 arb 57 1.3 0.9 +4.3
Stone Garrett 27 pre-arb 89 1.3 0.7 +4.3
MacKenzie Gore 24 pre-arb 27 1.2 0.7 +4.0
Jacob Young 23 – 33 0.9 0.1 +3.4
Patrick Corbin 33 FA-elig 32 0.8 24.4 -21.1
Jake Irvin 26 – 24 0.7 0.6 +2.2
Alex Call 28 pre-arb 128 0.6 0.7 +1.6
Robert Garcia↔ MIA 27 – 24 0.6 0.2 +2.0
Luis García Jr. 23 arb 122 0.5 0.7 +1.2
Ildemaro Vargas 31 FA-elig 86 0.5 1.0 +0.9
Mason Thompson 25 pre-arb 51 0.5 0.7 +1.1
Joan Adon 24 pre-arb 12 0.4 0.3 +1.4
Carl Edwards Jr. 31 FA-elig 32 0.4 2.2 -0.6
Riley Adams 27 pre-arb 44 0.4 0.7 +0.9
Victor Robles 26 FA-elig 36 0.3 2.3 -1.2
Drew Millas 25 – 11 0.3 0.1 +1.0
Kyle Finnegan 31 arb 67 0.3 2.3 -1.2
Joe La Sorsa↔ TBR 25 – 23 0.2 – –
Michael Chavis 27 arb 48 0.1 1.0 -0.5
Jeter Downs 24 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Jose A. Ferrer 23 – 39 0.1 – –
Tanner Rainey 30 arb 1 0.0 1.5 -1.4
Jackson Rutledge 24 – 4 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Jordan Weems 30 pre-arb 51 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Rico Garcia↔ OAK 29 – 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Travis Blankenhorn 26 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Paolo Espino 36 – 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Carter Kieboom 25 pre-arb 27 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Anthony Banda 29 FA-elig 10 -0.1 0.8 -1.1
Dominic Smith 28 FA-elig 153 -0.1 2.0 -2.3
Hobie Harris 30 – 16 -0.1 0.2 -0.8
Erasmo Ramírez↔ TBR 33 FA-elig 23 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Trevor Williams 31 FA-elig 30 -0.2 6.0 -6.6
Derek Hill 27 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Joey Meneses 31 pre-arb 154 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
Blake Rutherford 26 – 16 -0.3 0.1 -1.5
Cory Abbott 27 pre-arb 22 -0.4 0.4 -1.9
Jake Alu 26 – 51 -0.4 0.3 -1.9
Thaddeus Ward 26 – 26 -0.5 – –
Andrés Machado 30 pre-arb 44 -0.5 0.4 -2.2
Amos Willingham 24 – 18 -0.5 0.2 -2.2
Keibert Ruiz 24 arb 136 -0.5 1.4 -3.5
Chad Kuhl 30 FA-elig 16 -0.6 0.9 -3.3
Corey Dickerson 34 FA-elig 50 -0.6 2.2 -4.7

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (94%). 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.