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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.8 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+14.1 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
37–26 (0.587)
record
+204M
surplus $M (value/$)
55.3
roster fWAR
$259.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Cam Schlittler 25 pre-arb 13 7.3 0.8 +64.1
Ben Rice 27 pre-arb 58 7.2 0.8 +63.4
Cody Bellinger 30 FA-elig 62 5.8 36.5 +14.9
Aaron Judge 34 FA-elig 59 5.6 40.0 +9.7
Max Fried 32 FA-elig 10 4.9 14.5 +28.7
Will Warren 27 pre-arb 12 3.7 0.8 +31.8
Jazz Chisholm Jr. 28 – 60 3.3 – –
Paul Goldschmidt 38 FA-elig 38 3.1 4.0 +23.7
Ryan Weathers 26 arb 12 2.4 1.4 +20.4
José Caballero 29 pre-arb 53 2.4 2.0 +19.6
Brent Headrick 28 pre-arb 30 1.6 0.8 +13.6
Trent Grisham 29 FA-elig 61 1.3 22.0 -10.4
Carlos Rodón 33 FA-elig 5 1.2 27.8 -16.7
Fernando Cruz 36 arb 30 1.2 1.4 +9.6
Anthony Volpe 25 arb 16 1.1 3.5 +6.0
David Bednar 31 arb 25 1.0 9.0 +0.2
Max Schuemann 29 pre-arb 15 0.7 0.7 +5.3
Gerrit Cole 35 FA-elig 3 0.7 36.0 -30.1
Ryan McMahon 31 FA-elig 57 0.6 16.0 -10.8
Paul Blackburn 32 FA-elig 18 0.5 2.0 +2.7
Jake Bird 30 arb 22 0.5 1.0 +3.7
Austin Wells 26 pre-arb 47 0.5 0.9 +3.5
Amed Rosario 30 FA-elig 33 0.5 2.5 +1.7
Ryan Yarbrough 34 FA-elig 12 0.4 2.5 +1.0
Camilo Doval 28 arb 27 0.2 6.1 -4.1
Giancarlo Stanton 36 FA-elig 24 0.2 19.0 -17.3
Yovanny Cruz 26 – 2 0.1 0.0 +1.3
Kervin Castro 27 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.9
Spencer Jones 25 – 11 0.1 0.1 +0.7
Elmer Rodríguez 22 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.7
J.C. Escarra 31 pre-arb 22 -0.0 0.8 -1.1
Yerry De los Santos 28 – 2 -0.1 – –
Jasson Domínguez 23 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.6 -1.9
Angel Chivilli 23 pre-arb 2 -0.3 0.7 -3.0
Tim Hill 36 FA-elig 29 -0.3 3.0 -5.9
Brendan Beck 27 – 1 -0.4 0.0 -3.6
Randal Grichuk↔ CHW 34 – 16 -0.5 0.2 -4.9
Luis Gil 28 arb 4 -1.3 2.2 -13.5

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 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.