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GM: Bill Bavasi (since 1997)

1998 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.8
WAB — wins above budget
-10.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
-17M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.9
roster fWAR
$42.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chuck Finley 35 FA-elig 34 4.4 5.0 -0.3
Jim Edmonds 28 arb 154 4.0 3.2 +1.2
Tim Salmon 29 FA-elig 136 3.3 5.0 -1.4
Gary Disarcina 30 FA-elig 157 2.3 2.8 -0.3
Darin Erstad 24 pre-arb 133 2.3 0.6 +1.9
Troy Percival 28 arb 67 1.7 1.1 +0.7
Ken Hill 32 FA-elig 19 1.7 5.0 -3.2
Omar Olivares 30 FA-elig 40 1.6 1.1 +0.6
Steve Sparks 32 – 22 1.6 – –
Jack McDowell 32 FA-elig 14 0.9 1.5 -0.5
Allen Watson 27 arb 28 0.9 2.9 -2.0
Mike Holtz 25 pre-arb 53 0.8 0.2 +0.6
Jason Dickson 25 pre-arb 27 0.7 0.3 +0.5
Garret Anderson 26 arb 156 0.6 1.5 -0.8
Jarrod Washburn 23 pre-arb 15 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Randy Velarde 35 FA-elig 51 0.5 0.8 -0.3
Reggie Williams 32 – 29 0.5 – –
Shigetoshi Hasegawa 29 pre-arb 61 0.4 0.8 -0.4
Matt Walbeck 28 arb 108 0.4 0.7 -0.3
Jeff Juden↔ MIL 27 FA-elig 8 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Mike James 30 arb 11 0.3 0.7 -0.4
Gregg Jefferies↔ PHI 30 FA-elig 19 0.2 0.8 -0.6
Chris Pritchett 28 pre-arb 31 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Pep Harris 25 pre-arb 49 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Trevor Wilson 32 FA-elig 15 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Greg Cadaret↔ TEX 36 FA-elig 39 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Mike Fetters↔ OAK 33 FA-elig 12 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Bengie Molina 23 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Damon Mashore 28 pre-arb 43 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Charlie O'Brien↔ CHW 38 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Orlando Palmeiro 29 arb 75 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Rich DeLucia 33 FA-elig 61 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Chad Kreuter↔ CHW 33 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Frank Bolick 32 arb 21 -0.2 0.2 -0.3
Cecil Fielder↔ CLE 34 FA-elig 103 -0.2 2.5 -2.7
Craig Shipley 35 – 77 -0.3 – –
Mark Johnson 30 – 10 -0.3 – –
Phil Nevin 27 arb 75 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
Rich Robertson 29 – 5 -0.3 – –
Carlos Garcia 30 FA-elig 19 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Norberto Martin 31 arb 79 -0.6 0.4 -1.1
Troy Glaus 21 pre-arb 48 -0.8 0.2 -1.0
Todd Greene 27 pre-arb 29 -0.8 0.2 -1.1
Justin Baughman 23 – 63 -0.8 – –
Dave Hollins 32 FA-elig 101 -0.9 1.9 -2.9

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (87%). 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.