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GM: Bill Bavasi (since 1995)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.8
WAB — wins above budget
+9.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–67 (0.538)
record
+5M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.7
roster fWAR
$32.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Tim Salmon 26 arb 143 5.8 0.9 +4.6
Jim Edmonds 25 pre-arb 141 5.3 0.2 +4.9
Chuck Finley 32 FA-elig 32 4.4 4.9 -0.7
Mark Langston 34 FA-elig 31 4.1 5.0 -1.1
Tony Phillips 36 FA-elig 139 3.7 4.4 -0.8
Chili Davis 35 FA-elig 119 3.2 3.8 -0.8
Garret Anderson 23 pre-arb 106 2.7 0.1 +2.5
Gary Disarcina 27 FA-elig 99 2.6 0.9 +1.5
Troy Percival 25 pre-arb 62 2.4 0.1 +2.2
Jim Abbott↔ CHW 27 FA-elig 13 2.0 1.2 +0.7
Shawn Boskie 28 arb 20 1.3 0.3 +0.9
Rex Hudler 34 FA-elig 84 1.2 0.3 +0.8
Lee Smith 37 FA-elig 52 1.0 2.6 -1.6
Bob Patterson 36 FA-elig 62 0.7 0.5 +0.2
Scott Sanderson 38 FA-elig 7 0.7 0.2 +0.4
J.T. Snow 27 arb 143 0.6 0.2 +0.4
Greg Myers 29 FA-elig 85 0.6 0.9 -0.3
John Habyan↔ STL 31 FA-elig 28 0.5 0.3 +0.2
Dick Schofield↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 12 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Mike Harkey↔ OAK 28 FA-elig 12 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Mike James 27 pre-arb 46 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Jorge Fabregas 25 pre-arb 73 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Ken Edenfield 28 – 7 0.1 – –
Rich Monteleone 32 FA-elig 9 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Orlando Palmeiro 26 pre-arb 15 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mike Bielecki 35 FA-elig 22 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Rene Gonzales 34 FA-elig 30 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Erik Bennett 26 – 1 0.0 – –
Kevin Flora↔ PHI 26 arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Mark Holzemer 25 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Mike Aldrete↔ OAK 34 FA-elig 18 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Mark Dalesandro 27 – 11 -0.1 – –
Jose Lind↔ KCR 31 – 15 -0.2 – –
Chris Turner 26 – 5 -0.2 – –
Dave Gallagher↔ PHI 34 FA-elig 11 -0.2 0.0 -0.2
Carlos Martinez 29 FA-elig 26 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Andy Allanson 33 FA-elig 35 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Rod Correia 27 – 14 -0.2 – –
Russ Springer↔ PHI 26 arb 19 -0.3 0.1 -0.3
Brian Anderson 23 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Mike Butcher 30 arb 40 -0.3 0.2 -0.4
Damion Easley 25 arb 114 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Mitch Williams 30 – 20 -0.5 – –
Eduardo Perez 25 pre-arb 29 -0.7 0.1 -0.8
Spike Owen 34 FA-elig 82 -0.8 3.5 -4.3

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (84%). 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.