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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-7.7
WAB — wins above budget
-15.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
-161M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.0
roster fWAR
$239.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Robinson Canó 30 FA-elig 160 5.9 15.0 +0.8
Brett Gardner 29 arb 145 3.3 2.9 +5.9
Hiroki Kuroda 38 arb 32 3.2 15.0 -6.4
Andy Pettitte 41 FA-elig 30 2.7 12.0 -4.8
Chris Stewart 31 FA-elig 109 2.4 0.5 +6.0
CC Sabathia 32 FA-elig 32 2.1 23.0 -17.4
Iván Nova 26 arb 23 2.1 0.6 +5.0
Alfonso Soriano↔ CHC 37 FA-elig 58 1.8 6.9 -2.1
David Robertson 28 arb 70 1.4 3.1 +0.6
Mariano Rivera 43 FA-elig 64 1.3 10.0 -6.5
Curtis Granderson 32 FA-elig 61 1.2 15.0 -11.7
Ichiro Suzuki 39 FA-elig 150 1.1 6.5 -3.6
Francisco Cervelli 27 arb 17 1.0 0.5 +2.1
Phil Hughes 27 FA-elig 30 1.0 7.2 -4.5
Jayson Nix 30 arb 87 0.9 0.9 +1.4
David Phelps 26 pre-arb 22 0.8 0.5 +1.7
Alex Rodriguez 37 FA-elig 44 0.6 28.0 -26.3
Mark Reynolds↔ CLE 29 FA-elig 36 0.4 1.6 -0.4
Shawn Kelley 29 arb 57 0.4 0.9 +0.1
Melky Mesa 26 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.0 +0.6
Vidal Nuño 25 – 5 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Boone Logan 28 FA-elig 61 0.1 3.1 -2.7
John Ryan Murphy 22 – 16 0.1 – –
Matt Daley 31 – 7 0.1 – –
Cesar Cabral 24 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Preston Claiborne 25 – 44 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Dellin Betances 25 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Cody Eppley 27 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Chris Nelson↔ ANA 27 arb 10 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Brendan Ryan↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 17 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Corban Joseph 24 – 2 -0.0 – –
Adam Warren 25 pre-arb 34 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Mike Zagurski↔ PIT 30 – 1 -0.0 – –
Chris Bootcheck 34 – 1 -0.0 – –
Travis Ishikawa↔ BAL 29 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jim Miller 31 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
David Adams 26 pre-arb 43 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
David Huff↔ CLE 28 arb 11 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Lyle Overbay 36 FA-elig 142 -0.1 1.2 -1.6
Mark Teixeira 33 FA-elig 15 -0.1 22.5 -22.9
Brennan Boesch 28 arb 23 -0.2 1.5 -1.9
Austin Romine 24 pre-arb 60 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Travis Hafner 36 FA-elig 82 -0.2 2.0 -2.4
Luis Alfonso Cruz↔ LAD 29 arb 16 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Thomas Neal↔ CHC 25 – 4 -0.2 – –
Zoilo Almonte 24 pre-arb 34 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Brett Marshall 23 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Alberto Gonzalez↔ CHC 30 arb 13 -0.3 0.1 -0.7
Eduardo Núñez 26 arb 90 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Vernon Wells 34 FA-elig 130 -0.3 21.0 -21.9
Kevin Youkilis 34 FA-elig 28 -0.3 12.0 -12.9
Brent Lillibridge↔ CHC 29 arb 11 -0.3 0.4 -1.3
Ben Francisco 31 FA-elig 21 -0.5 1.1 -2.4
Derek Jeter 39 FA-elig 17 -0.5 17.0 -18.3
Reid Brignac↔ COL 27 arb 17 -0.5 0.2 -1.5
Joba Chamberlain 27 FA-elig 45 -0.7 1.9 -3.7

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 of them (89%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR). 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 NYY
Rickey Henderson198426.6
David Cone199516.6
Tino Martinez199516.0
Gleyber Torres201615.9
Willie Randolph197514.7
Nick Swisher200814.4
Giancarlo Stanton201711.1
Randy Velarde198710.1
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Rickey Henderson198926.8
Doug Drabek198621.4
Fred McGriff198219.7
Greg Gagne198215.6
Austin Jackson200914.8
Jake Westbrook200013.5
Eric Milton199813.4
Nick Johnson200310.5
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.