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GM: Bill Bavasi (since 1997)

1997 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.6
WAB — wins above budget
-0.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
84–78 (0.519)
record
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.5
roster fWAR
$34.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Tim Salmon 28 arb 157 4.6 3.5 +1.2
Jim Edmonds 27 arb 133 4.0 2.0 +2.0
Chuck Finley 34 FA-elig 25 2.8 4.0 -1.1
Darin Erstad 23 pre-arb 139 2.8 0.2 +2.7
Garret Anderson 25 arb 154 2.8 0.6 +2.2
Dave Hollins 31 FA-elig 149 2.6 2.0 +0.6
Luis Alicea 31 FA-elig 128 2.6 0.7 +2.0
Jim Leyritz↔ TEX 33 FA-elig 84 2.1 1.3 +0.8
Jason Dickson 24 pre-arb 33 1.7 0.2 +1.5
Mike James 29 pre-arb 58 1.3 0.3 +1.0
Troy Percival 27 pre-arb 55 1.1 0.7 +0.5
Allen Watson 26 arb 35 1.1 1.3 -0.2
Tony Phillips↔ CHW 38 FA-elig 105 1.0 1.6 -0.6
Ken Hill↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 12 0.8 1.9 -1.1
Todd Greene 26 pre-arb 34 0.8 0.2 +0.6
Shigetoshi Hasegawa 28 pre-arb 50 0.7 0.6 +0.2
Chad Kreuter↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 70 0.5 0.5 +0.0
Pep Harris 24 pre-arb 61 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Chuck McElroy↔ CHW 29 FA-elig 13 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Darrell May 25 pre-arb 29 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Jack Howell 35 FA-elig 77 0.2 0.4 -0.2
Mike Holtz 24 pre-arb 66 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Chris Turner 28 arb 13 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Robert Eenhoorn 29 – 11 0.1 – –
Rich DeLucia↔ SFG 32 FA-elig 33 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Matt Perisho 22 – 11 0.1 – –
Anthony Chavez 26 – 7 0.1 – –
Dennis Springer 32 pre-arb 32 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Greg Cadaret 35 – 15 0.0 – –
Craig Grebeck 32 FA-elig 63 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Randy Velarde 34 FA-elig 1 0.0 0.8 -0.8
Mike Bovee 23 – 3 -0.0 – –
Angelo Encarnacion 28 pre-arb 11 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
George Arias↔ SDP 25 – 3 -0.0 – –
Shad Williams 26 – 1 -0.0 – –
Mark Langston 36 FA-elig 9 -0.0 4.0 -4.0
Gary Disarcina 29 FA-elig 154 -0.1 2.7 -2.8
Mark Gubicza 34 FA-elig 2 -0.1 1.6 -1.7
Rickey Henderson↔ SDP 38 FA-elig 32 -0.2 0.8 -1.0
Kevin Gross 36 – 12 -0.2 – –
Jorge Fabregas↔ CHW 27 arb 21 -0.4 0.0 -0.5
Orlando Palmeiro 28 pre-arb 74 -0.8 0.2 -1.0
Eddie Murray↔ LAD 41 FA-elig 46 -0.9 0.6 -1.5

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (81%). 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.