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GM: Mike Port (since 1985)

1990 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.5
WAB — wins above budget
-1.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
-7M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.5
roster fWAR
$22.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chuck Finley 27 arb 32 4.8 0.7 +1.4
Lance Parrish 34 FA-elig 133 4.6 1.9 +0.1
Mark Langston 29 FA-elig 33 4.6 1.8 +0.2
Jim Abbott 22 pre-arb 33 2.8 0.2 +1.0
Kirk McCaskill 29 arb 29 2.4 1.0 +0.1
Mark Eichhorn 29 FA-elig 60 2.1 0.3 +0.7
Brian Downing 39 FA-elig 96 2.1 1.2 -0.3
Dick Schofield 27 FA-elig 99 2.0 1.0 -0.1
Wally Joyner 28 arb 83 1.7 1.8 -1.0
Bert Blyleven 39 FA-elig 23 1.7 1.2 -0.4
Bryan Harvey 27 arb 54 1.4 0.3 +0.3
Luis Polonia↔ NYY 26 arb 109 1.2 0.2 +0.4
Max Venable 33 FA-elig 93 1.0 0.2 +0.3
Rick Schu 28 – 61 0.9 – –
Jack Howell 28 arb 105 0.8 0.7 -0.3
Devon White 27 arb 125 0.8 0.6 -0.2
Dave Winfield↔ NYY 38 FA-elig 112 0.6 1.7 -1.4
Kent Anderson 26 pre-arb 49 0.6 0.1 +0.2
Willie Fraser 26 arb 45 0.5 0.4 -0.2
Johnny Ray 33 FA-elig 105 0.5 1.1 -0.9
Chili Davis 30 FA-elig 113 0.5 1.4 -1.2
Dante Bichette 26 pre-arb 109 0.5 0.1 +0.1
Bobby Rose 23 pre-arb 7 0.4 0.1 +0.1
Cliff Young 25 pre-arb 17 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Joe Grahe 22 pre-arb 8 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Scott Lewis 24 – 2 0.3 – –
Bill Schroeder 31 FA-elig 18 0.2 0.4 -0.3
Bob McClure 38 FA-elig 11 0.2 0.8 -0.7
Mike Witt↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 10 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Sherman Corbett 27 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jeff Richardson 26 – 1 0.0 – –
Ron Tingley 31 FA-elig 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Pete Coachman 28 pre-arb 16 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mark Clear 34 – 4 -0.1 – –
Greg Minton 38 FA-elig 11 -0.1 0.8 -0.9
Mike Fetters 25 pre-arb 26 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
John Orton 24 pre-arb 31 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Donnie Hill 29 FA-elig 103 -0.2 0.2 -0.3
Claudell Washington↔ NYY 35 FA-elig 12 -0.2 0.2 -0.3
Gary Disarcina 22 pre-arb 18 -0.4 0.1 -0.3
Mark McLemore↔ CLE 25 arb 20 -0.5 0.1 -0.4
Lee Stevens 22 pre-arb 67 -0.5 0.1 -0.3
Scott Bailes 28 arb 27 -0.9 0.4 -0.8

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (91%). 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 ANA
Chone Figgins200122.2
Brian Downing197716.9
Andrelton Simmons201514.6
Maicer Izturis200412.2
David Eckstein20009.8
Patrick Sandoval20188.9
Bob Boone19818.8
Bert Blyleven19888.4
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Phil Nevin199917.3
Patrick Corbin201016.5
Damion Easley199615.4
Mike Clevinger201410.8
Brandon Marsh20229.4
Roberto Hernández19898.6
Bobby Jenks20047.8
Martín Maldonado20116.3
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.