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President of baseball ops: Chris Antonetti (since 2016) · GM: Mike Chernoff (since 2022)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+19.1 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+13.1 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
37–29 (0.561)
record
+271M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.7
roster fWAR
$66.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Ramírez 33 FA-elig 66 5.8 25.0 +26.5
Brayan Rocchio 25 pre-arb 63 4.6 0.8 +40.5
Parker Messick 25 pre-arb 13 4.2 0.8 +37.0
Gavin Williams 26 pre-arb 13 3.7 0.8 +32.4
Cade Smith 27 pre-arb 28 3.7 0.8 +31.9
Angel Martínez 24 pre-arb 60 2.3 0.8 +19.6
Travis Bazzana 23 – 35 2.3 0.6 +19.5
Daniel Schneemann 29 pre-arb 51 2.2 0.8 +18.6
Erik Sabrowski 28 pre-arb 25 1.9 0.8 +16.5
Colin Holderman 30 arb 19 1.7 1.5 +13.5
Slade Cecconi 27 pre-arb 13 1.7 0.8 +14.2
Chase DeLauter 24 – 61 1.6 0.8 +13.5
Tanner Bibee 27 arb 14 1.4 4.4 +7.8
Joey Cantillo 26 pre-arb 13 1.0 0.8 +8.4
Steven Kwan 28 arb 59 0.9 7.7 +0.5
Austin Hedges 33 FA-elig 31 0.9 4.0 +3.8
Kyle Manzardo 25 pre-arb 57 0.9 0.8 +7.0
Gabriel Arias 26 pre-arb 10 0.4 0.8 +3.1
David Fry 30 pre-arb 39 0.4 1.4 +2.1
Logan Allen 27 pre-arb 1 0.3 0.0 +2.2
Shawn Armstrong 35 FA-elig 19 0.3 4.0 -1.8
Hunter Gaddis 28 pre-arb 19 0.2 0.8 +1.3
Codi Heuer 29 arb 6 0.2 0.6 +1.2
Matt Festa 33 pre-arb 28 0.2 1.0 +0.4
Tim Herrin 29 pre-arb 28 0.1 0.8 +0.4
Rhys Hoskins 33 FA-elig 51 0.1 1.5 -0.8
Will Dion 26 – 3 0.0 0.5 -0.2
Stuart Fairchild 30 – 4 -0.1 – –
Kolby Allard 28 – 4 -0.1 – –
Patrick Bailey↔ SFG 27 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.2 -1.7
Franco Aleman 26 – 2 -0.2 0.0 -1.8
Petey Halpin 24 pre-arb 18 -0.2 0.6 -2.4
Peyton Pallette 25 – 16 -0.3 0.3 -2.9
CJ Kayfus 24 pre-arb 9 -0.5 0.1 -4.1
Connor Brogdon 31 arb 15 -0.8 0.9 -7.6
Juan Brito 24 – 15 -0.8 0.1 -7.1
George Valera 25 pre-arb 13 -0.9 0.2 -8.3
Bo Naylor 26 pre-arb 28 -1.3 0.2 -11.8

38 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (95%). 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 CLE
Kenny Lofton199142.5
Corey Kluber201034.6
Grady Sizemore200230.3
Carlos Carrasco200925.5
Travis Hafner200222.3
Carlos Santana200821.6
Michael Brantley200820.0
Shin-Soo Choo200619.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Jeff Kent199630.9
Brandon Phillips200630.1
Brian Giles199825.4
Von Hayes198222.3
Yandy Díaz201819.7
Rick Sutcliffe198417.2
Jeromy Burnitz199617.1
Sean Casey199815.9
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.