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GM: Ben Cherington (since 2020)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.1 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+14.0 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
34–31 (0.523)
record
+289M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.2
roster fWAR
$104.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Paul Skenes 24 pre-arb 13 5.6 1.1 +48.5
Brandon Lowe 31 FA-elig 59 5.6 11.5 +37.9
Braxton Ashcraft 26 pre-arb 13 5.2 0.8 +45.6
Oneil Cruz 27 arb 63 4.4 3.3 +35.5
Bryan Reynolds 31 FA-elig 65 3.5 14.2 +17.2
Mitch Keller 30 FA-elig 13 3.5 16.9 +14.5
Nick Gonzales 27 pre-arb 59 3.3 0.8 +29.0
Spencer Horwitz 28 pre-arb 60 2.9 0.8 +25.2
Carmen Mlodzinski 27 pre-arb 12 2.9 0.8 +24.8
Konnor Griffin 20 – 51 2.8 2.3 +22.6
Gregory Soto 31 FA-elig 29 2.3 7.8 +12.9
Ryan O'Hearn 32 FA-elig 50 1.9 14.0 +3.1
Evan Sisk 29 pre-arb 22 1.3 0.7 +10.7
Jake Mangum 30 pre-arb 45 1.0 0.8 +7.7
Endy Rodríguez 26 pre-arb 15 0.8 0.6 +6.4
Isaac Mattson 30 pre-arb 21 0.8 0.2 +6.7
Bubba Chandler 23 pre-arb 12 0.8 0.8 +6.0
Wilber Dotel 23 – 7 0.7 0.6 +5.6
Mason Montgomery 26 pre-arb 25 0.7 0.8 +5.1
Tyler Callihan 26 pre-arb 4 0.3 0.8 +2.3
Joey Bart 29 arb 21 0.3 2.5 +0.4
Jared Jones 24 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.8 +0.4
Yohan Ramírez 31 arb 28 0.1 0.8 +0.3
Cam Sanders 29 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.0 +1.0
Esmerlyn Valdez 22 – 5 0.1 0.5 -0.0
José Urquidy 31 FA-elig 5 0.1 1.5 -1.0
Chris Devenski 35 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.7 -1.6
Dennis Santana 30 arb 28 -0.1 3.5 -4.4
Nick Yorke 24 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.0 -2.5
Henry Davis 26 pre-arb 43 -0.3 0.8 -3.4
Billy Cook 27 pre-arb 32 -0.4 0.2 -3.8
Justin Lawrence↔ MIN 31 arb 23 -0.5 1.1 -5.6
Brandan Bidois 25 – 10 -0.6 0.6 -6.0
Jhostynxon Garcia 23 pre-arb 13 -0.7 0.5 -7.0
Jared Triolo 28 pre-arb 33 -0.7 0.8 -7.3
Hunter Barco 25 pre-arb 5 -1.3 0.1 -11.4
Marcell Ozuna 35 FA-elig 48 -1.8 10.5 -26.4

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 PIT
Andy Van Slyke198731.1
Brian Giles199825.4
Doug Drabek198621.4
Bobby Bonilla198620.6
Bryan Reynolds201820.0
Mike LaValliere198712.9
Josh Harrison200911.9
Jack Wilson200011.0
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Aramis Ramírez200325.0
Jason Schmidt200123.6
Brian Giles200317.1
Willie Randolph197514.7
Moisés Alou199013.8
John Tudor198412.0
Randy Milligan198811.9
Bip Roberts198511.1
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.