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President of baseball ops: Erik Neander (since 2021)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+25.5 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+9.3 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
37–24 (0.607)
record
+235M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.9
roster fWAR
$71.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yandy Díaz 34 FA-elig 58 5.5 12.0 +37.0
Shane McClanahan 29 arb 12 4.4 3.6 +35.2
Junior Caminero 22 pre-arb 61 4.1 0.8 +35.4
Drew Rasmussen 30 arb 12 4.0 5.8 +29.8
Nick Martinez 35 FA-elig 12 3.6 9.0 +23.4
Jonathan Aranda 28 pre-arb 61 3.6 0.8 +31.0
Jonny DeLuca 27 pre-arb 41 1.9 0.8 +16.5
Bryan Baker 31 arb 27 1.9 1.3 +16.0
Chandler Simpson 25 pre-arb 60 1.8 0.8 +14.9
Ryan Vilade 27 pre-arb 36 1.5 0.9 +12.3
Joe Boyle 26 pre-arb 3 1.3 0.2 +11.7
Kevin Kelly 28 pre-arb 27 1.3 0.9 +10.2
Taylor Walls 29 arb 46 1.1 2.5 +7.8
Ben Williamson 25 pre-arb 46 1.0 0.8 +7.7
Cole Sulser 36 arb 21 0.8 1.1 +6.2
Hunter Feduccia 29 pre-arb 34 0.7 0.8 +5.6
Garrett Cleavinger 32 arb 14 0.6 2.4 +2.6
Richie Palacios 29 – 46 0.5 – –
Ian Seymour 27 pre-arb 26 0.3 0.8 +2.0
Jake Fraley 31 arb 28 0.3 3.0 -0.3
Casey Legumina↔ SEA 29 pre-arb 12 0.3 0.4 +2.3
Cam Booser 34 – 2 0.3 – –
Steven Matz 35 FA-elig 10 0.3 7.5 -5.1
Hunter Bigge 28 pre-arb 18 0.1 0.8 +0.2
Victor Mesa Jr. 24 – 10 0.1 – –
Craig Kimbrel↔ NYM 38 FA-elig 1 0.1 0.0 +0.7
Mason Englert 26 pre-arb 11 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Chase Solesky 28 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.4
Nick Fortes 29 arb 50 -0.0 2.5 -2.9
Jonathan Heasley 29 – 1 -0.2 – –
Cedric Mullins 31 FA-elig 54 -0.2 6.5 -8.7
Andrew Wantz 30 – 1 -0.3 – –
Oliver Dunn 28 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.5 -3.1
Jesse Scholtens 32 pre-arb 9 -0.6 0.7 -5.9
Griffin Jax 31 arb 18 -0.7 3.6 -10.2
Trevor Martin 25 – 5 -0.8 0.1 -7.5
Aaron Brooks 36 pre-arb 1 -0.9 0.0 -8.0
Yoendrys Gómez↔ MIN 26 – 9 -0.9 0.2 -8.5
Carson Williams 23 pre-arb 12 -1.3 0.6 -12.2

39 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 of them (87%). 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 TBR
Ben Zobrist200633.1
Yandy Díaz201819.7
Chris Archer201116.9
Scott Kazmir200415.0
Matt Joyce200810.7
Drew Rasmussen20219.4
Tyler Glasnow20189.3
Joey Wendle20178.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Bobby Abreu199745.3
Germán Márquez201619.1
Cristopher Sánchez201916.6
Jake Cronenworth201914.8
Joe Ryan202113.4
Nathaniel Lowe202010.8
Merrill Kelly201910.4
Blake Snell20209.8
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.