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GM: Josh Byrnes (since 2026)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-15.5 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-14.4 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
24–41 (0.369)
record
+35M
surplus $M (value/$)
13.5
roster fWAR
$87.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mickey Moniak 28 arb 43 3.4 4.0 +26.0
Hunter Goodman 26 pre-arb 59 3.0 0.8 +26.2
Antonio Senzatela 31 FA-elig 18 2.2 12.0 +7.9
Jake McCarthy 28 arb 54 1.8 1.5 +14.2
Kyle Karros 23 pre-arb 61 1.5 0.8 +12.8
TJ Rumfield 26 – 62 1.4 0.8 +11.8
Troy Johnston 29 pre-arb 60 1.3 0.8 +11.0
Jaden Hill 26 pre-arb 25 1.2 0.8 +9.6
Juan Mejia 25 pre-arb 27 1.0 0.8 +8.1
Chase Dollander 24 pre-arb 10 1.0 0.8 +7.8
Brennan Bernardino 34 pre-arb 30 0.9 0.9 +6.7
Jimmy Herget 32 arb 15 0.8 1.6 +6.0
Tanner Gordon 28 pre-arb 9 0.7 0.7 +5.9
Ryan Feltner 29 arb 7 0.7 2.5 +3.8
Michael Lorenzen 34 FA-elig 14 0.7 7.8 -1.9
Tomoyuki Sugano 36 pre-arb 12 0.6 5.1 +0.4
Willi Castro 29 FA-elig 53 0.5 5.5 -0.8
Jose Quintana 37 FA-elig 9 0.5 6.0 -1.5
Tyler Freeman 27 arb 43 0.4 1.5 +2.3
Seth Halvorsen 26 pre-arb 14 0.3 0.6 +2.4
Keegan Thompson 31 arb 4 0.2 1.0 +1.2
Welinton Herrera 22 – 3 0.1 0.5 +0.1
Blas Castaño 27 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.5 -0.8
Ryan Ritter 25 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Sammy Peralta 28 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.8
Braxton Fulford 27 pre-arb 16 -0.2 0.6 -2.6
TJ Shook 28 – 3 -0.2 – –
Victor Vodnik 26 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.8 -3.1
Sterlin Thompson 25 – 17 -0.3 0.6 -2.9
Chad Stevens 27 pre-arb 13 -0.3 0.5 -3.3
Kyle Freeland 33 FA-elig 11 -0.6 16.0 -21.0
Zach Agnos 25 pre-arb 17 -0.8 0.8 -8.2
Ezequiel Tovar 24 arb 62 -0.8 5.2 -12.6
Brett Sullivan 32 pre-arb 32 -1.2 0.8 -11.7
Brenton Doyle 28 pre-arb 43 -1.3 3.1 -14.5
Valente Bellozo 26 pre-arb 3 -1.3 0.0 -11.9
Jordan Beck 25 pre-arb 30 -1.6 0.8 -14.9
Edouard Julien 27 pre-arb 54 -1.7 0.8 -15.7

38 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (97%). 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 COL
Carlos González200824.7
Germán Márquez201619.1
Jorge De La Rosa200813.1
DJ LeMahieu201113.1
Pedro Astacio19978.3
Brian Fuentes20017.7
Rafael Betancourt20095.9
Tyler Chatwood20115.8
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Chone Figgins200122.2
Nolan Arenado202118.3
Andy Ashby199317.7
Mark Canha201410.3
Darryl Kile19999.7
Juan Pierre20029.4
Everth Cabrera20084.5
Ubaldo Jiménez20114.4
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.