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President of baseball ops: Scott Harris (since 2023) · GM: Jeff Greenberg (since 2024)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-21.5 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-9.7 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
26–39 (0.400)
record
+57M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.7
roster fWAR
$204.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Kevin McGonigle 21 – 62 6.5 0.8 +56.7
Dillon Dingler 27 pre-arb 58 6.3 0.8 +55.4
Riley Greene 25 arb 65 4.7 5.0 +36.8
Casey Mize 29 arb 9 4.3 6.2 +32.6
Tarik Skubal 29 arb 7 3.9 32.0 +2.3
Keider Montero 25 pre-arb 12 2.5 0.8 +21.5
Framber Valdez 32 FA-elig 13 2.0 22.8 -5.2
Gleyber Torres 29 FA-elig 36 1.9 22.0 -4.7
Jack Flaherty 30 FA-elig 13 1.7 20.0 -4.5
Troy Melton 25 pre-arb 3 0.9 0.8 +7.6
Drew Anderson 32 pre-arb 22 0.8 7.0 +0.1
Enmanuel De Jesus 29 – 17 0.7 – –
Ty Madden 26 pre-arb 5 0.6 0.6 +4.5
Parker Meadows 26 pre-arb 12 0.6 0.8 +4.3
Will Vest 31 arb 20 0.6 4.0 +0.9
Brant Hurter 27 pre-arb 21 0.4 0.8 +3.1
Spencer Torkelson 26 arb 64 0.4 4.1 -0.8
Zack Short 31 pre-arb 19 0.2 0.6 +1.5
Burch Smith 36 arb 13 0.2 1.3 +0.4
Drew Sommers 25 pre-arb 3 0.2 0.0 +1.5
Connor Seabold↔ TOR 30 – 11 0.1 0.6 +0.6
Kerry Carpenter 28 arb 42 0.1 3.3 -2.4
Tyler Holton 30 arb 27 0.1 1.6 -0.7
Colt Keith 24 pre-arb 59 0.1 4.3 -3.5
Javier Báez 33 FA-elig 24 0.0 24.0 -24.0
Jake Rogers 31 arb 21 -0.0 3.0 -3.3
Jace Jung 25 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Justin Verlander 43 FA-elig 1 -0.2 7.8 -9.6
Brenan Hanifee 28 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.6 -2.6
Matt Vierling 29 arb 55 -0.4 3.3 -6.4
Beau Brieske 28 arb 2 -0.4 1.2 -5.1
Kyle Finnegan 34 FA-elig 28 -0.5 8.8 -13.3
Ricky Vanasco 27 pre-arb 5 -0.5 0.6 -5.5
Kenley Jansen 38 FA-elig 18 -0.7 9.0 -14.8
Gage Workman 26 – 16 -1.1 0.6 -10.1
Hao-Yu Lee 23 – 32 -1.4 – –
Zach McKinstry 31 arb 41 -1.6 4.2 -18.7
Wenceel Pérez 26 pre-arb 47 -1.9 0.7 -17.3
Jahmai Jones 28 pre-arb 44 -2.2 0.8 -20.1

39 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 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 DET
Max Scherzer200922.2
Carlos Guillén200418.3
Ian Kinsler201316.3
Jeremy Bonderman200215.8
Damion Easley199615.4
Austin Jackson200914.8
Mickey Tettleton199114.4
Chet Lemon198114.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
John Smoltz198781.6
Luis Gonzalez199833.8
Chris Hoiles198824.8
Howard Johnson198422.8
Justin Verlander201719.7
Rick Porcello201413.1
Robbie Ray201411.8
Matt Joyce200810.7
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.