Rosternomics
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May 12, 2022

SEASFG

unsettledToo soon to call — players still accruing.
SEASEA Jerry Dipoto net +$2.4M net +0.6
received −$4.0M−$4.0M ± $22M expected surplus · +$2.4M realized received 0.0 ± 3 expected · 0.6 realized WAR
Playoff odds: this deal moved SEA's 2022 odds 28% → 28% (-0.3 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗
receives — most valuable first
Mike Ford1B/DH·29y·L/R
−$3.7M−$3.7M± $22M exp surplusrealized +$2.4M 0.0± 3 exp WARrealized 0.6
Prior
no pedigree — league baseline → 0.21/yr
Evidence
recent form -0.7/yr over 0.4 season
Talent
-0.01/yr blended
Horizon
5.0 control yrs
SFGSFG Farhan Zaidi net −$2.4M net -0.6
received +$0.0M+$0.0M ± $0M expected surplus · +$0.0M realized received 0.0 ± 0 expected · 0.0 realized WAR
Playoff odds: this deal moved SFG's 2022 odds 22% → 22% (+0.2 pts) — how trade timing is graded ↗
receives — most valuable first
cash / PTBNL
+$0.0M+$0.0M± $0M exp surplusrealized +$0.0M 0.0± 0 exp WARrealized 0.0
Cash or player to be named — no projection
Fan verdict — who overpaid?

Each player is valued on what he was expected to produce at the time of the trade, versus what he actually produced for his new team.

Expected WAR blends a player's pedigree (composite top-100 rank / draft slot, or a baseline) with his recent track record, projected over the years of team control acquired. The ± figure is a historically calibrated predictive standard deviation, measuring how widely comparable forecasts have missed around their expected value. Surplus values that production at the FA market price of a win (~$8M/WAR) minus salary — so cost-controlled players carry large surplus and expensive ones little, even at the same WAR. Who won is descriptive, not a skill claim: ~99% of a trade's outcome is unforeseeable at the time.