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GM: Mike Elias (since 2019)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.1 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-1.5 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
31–34 (0.477)
record
+140M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.1
roster fWAR
$163.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Adley Rutschman 28 arb 47 5.3 7.2 +39.9
Gunnar Henderson 25 arb 64 3.6 8.5 +23.7
Pete Alonso 31 FA-elig 65 3.3 21.0 +8.0
Shane Baz 27 arb 12 2.7 1.8 +22.3
Taylor Ward 32 arb 64 2.7 12.2 +11.6
Samuel Basallo 21 pre-arb 53 2.6 1.6 +21.5
Rico Garcia 32 pre-arb 28 2.3 0.9 +19.4
Leody Taveras 27 arb 54 2.0 2.0 +15.4
Kyle Bradish 29 arb 13 2.0 3.5 +13.8
Grant Wolfram 29 pre-arb 21 1.7 0.8 +14.7
Colton Cowser 26 pre-arb 55 1.7 0.8 +14.5
Brandon Young 27 pre-arb 9 1.6 0.7 +13.6
Trevor Rogers 28 arb 11 1.3 6.2 +5.6
Ryan Helsley 31 FA-elig 12 0.8 14.0 -6.7
Jackson Holliday 22 pre-arb 16 0.8 0.8 +6.1
Yennier Cano 32 arb 28 0.7 1.6 +5.1
Tyler Wells 31 arb 22 0.7 2.5 +3.8
Blaze Alexander 27 pre-arb 54 0.7 0.8 +5.5
Chris Bassitt 37 FA-elig 12 0.7 18.5 -12.6
Jeremiah Jackson 26 pre-arb 55 0.5 0.8 +4.0
Anthony Nunez 24 – 29 0.5 0.8 +3.8
Dietrich Enns 35 pre-arb 13 0.4 2.5 +0.6
Coby Mayo 24 pre-arb 52 0.1 0.8 +0.2
Sam Huff 28 – 3 0.1 – –
Dylan Beavers 24 pre-arb 33 0.1 0.8 -0.1
Ryan Mountcastle 29 arb 8 0.1 6.8 -6.2
Zach Eflin 32 FA-elig 1 0.1 8.0 -7.5
Jose Espada 29 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Cameron Weston 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Lou Trivino 34 – 2 -0.0 – –
Keegan Akin 31 arb 17 -0.0 3.0 -3.1
Dean Kremer 30 arb 2 -0.0 5.8 -6.0
Maverick Handley 28 – 1 -0.1 – –
Albert Suárez 36 arb 10 -0.1 0.1 -0.8
Josh Walker 31 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.7
Cameron Foster 27 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -1.0
Andrew Kittredge 36 FA-elig 15 -0.1 9.0 -10.2
Cade Povich 26 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.7 -2.7
Nick Raquet 30 pre-arb 3 -0.3 0.6 -3.4
Trey Gibson 24 – 3 -0.4 0.0 -3.2
Johnathan Rodríguez 26 pre-arb 5 -0.5 0.1 -4.4
Weston Wilson 31 pre-arb 21 -0.6 0.7 -5.7
Yaramil Hiraldo 30 pre-arb 3 -0.8 0.8 -7.7
Tyler O'Neill 31 FA-elig 39 -1.7 16.5 -31.3

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (91%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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 BAL
Brady Anderson198833.0
Adam Jones200829.6
Melvin Mora200026.9
Chris Hoiles198824.8
Scott Erickson199516.4
J. J. Hardy201014.3
Randy Milligan198811.9
Mike Devereaux198911.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Dennis Martínez198622.5
Jake Arrieta201319.6
Bryn Smith197716.4
Mickey Tettleton199114.4
Eduardo Rodríguez201414.3
Mike Yastrzemski201911.3
Eddie Murray198810.8
José Mesa19929.1
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.