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GM: Bill Bavasi (since 1995)

1996 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.8
WAB — wins above budget
-6.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
70–91 (0.435)
record
-6M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.9
roster fWAR
$26.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jim Edmonds 26 arb 114 5.0 0.6 +3.6
Chuck Finley 33 FA-elig 35 5.0 3.1 +1.1
Rex Hudler 35 FA-elig 92 2.6 0.4 +1.8
Chili Davis 36 FA-elig 145 2.4 3.8 -1.8
Troy Percival 26 pre-arb 62 2.3 0.4 +1.6
Tim Salmon 27 arb 156 1.9 2.5 -0.9
Randy Velarde 33 FA-elig 136 1.8 0.8 +0.7
Mark Langston 35 FA-elig 18 1.7 5.0 -3.6
Jason Grimsley 28 FA-elig 35 0.9 0.4 +0.4
Don Slaught↔ CHW 37 FA-elig 62 0.8 0.3 +0.4
Chuck McElroy↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 40 0.8 0.6 +0.0
Shawn Boskie 29 FA-elig 37 0.7 0.5 +0.1
Mike James 28 pre-arb 69 0.6 0.1 +0.4
Darin Erstad 22 – 57 0.5 – –
Gary Disarcina 28 FA-elig 150 0.5 1.6 -1.2
Garret Anderson 24 pre-arb 150 0.5 0.2 +0.2
Mike Holtz 23 pre-arb 30 0.5 0.1 +0.3
Mark Eichhorn 35 FA-elig 24 0.4 0.2 +0.1
Jason Dickson 23 pre-arb 7 0.4 0.1 +0.2
Orlando Palmeiro 27 pre-arb 50 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Ryan Hancock 24 – 11 0.3 – –
Lee Smith↔ CIN 38 FA-elig 11 0.2 0.4 -0.2
Robert Eenhoorn↔ NYY 28 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.0 +0.1
Pep Harris 23 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Chris Turner 27 – 4 0.1 – –
Phil Leftwich 27 – 2 0.1 – –
Robert Ellis 25 – 3 0.1 – –
Jack Howell 34 FA-elig 66 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Jim Abbott 28 FA-elig 27 0.0 2.2 -2.2
Ben Van Ryn 24 – 1 -0.0 – –
Dick Schofield 33 FA-elig 13 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
George Arias 24 pre-arb 84 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Ken Edenfield 29 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Darrell May↔ PIT 24 – 5 -0.1 – –
Scott Sanderson 39 FA-elig 5 -0.2 0.2 -0.3
Kyle Abbott 28 – 3 -0.2 – –
Todd Frohwirth 33 – 4 -0.2 – –
Brad Pennington↔ BOS 27 arb 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Jeff Schmidt 25 – 9 -0.2 – –
Jorge Fabregas 26 pre-arb 90 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Tim Wallach↔ LAD 38 FA-elig 57 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Damion Easley↔ DET 26 arb 28 -0.3 0.2 -0.4
Mike Aldrete↔ NYY 35 FA-elig 31 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Shad Williams 25 – 13 -0.3 – –
Chris Pritchett 26 – 5 -0.3 – –
Mark Holzemer 26 arb 25 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Todd Greene 25 pre-arb 29 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Pat Borders↔ CHW 33 FA-elig 19 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Greg Gohr↔ DET 28 arb 15 -0.4 0.1 -0.4
Dennis Springer 31 pre-arb 20 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Rich Monteleone 33 FA-elig 12 -0.4 0.1 -0.4
J.T. Snow 28 arb 155 -0.7 0.7 -1.3

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (77%). 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.