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GM: Bill Bavasi (since 1997)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.0
WAB — wins above budget
-12.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
70–92 (0.432)
record
-23M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.1
roster fWAR
$52.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chuck Finley 36 FA-elig 33 4.4 5.8 -0.3
Randy Velarde↔ OAK 36 FA-elig 95 3.5 1.0 +3.5
Garret Anderson 27 arb 157 2.4 2.2 +0.8
Troy Glaus 22 pre-arb 154 2.4 0.2 +2.8
Tim Salmon 30 FA-elig 98 2.0 5.5 -2.9
Darin Erstad 25 arb 142 2.0 0.8 +1.7
Omar Olivares↔ OAK 31 FA-elig 20 1.9 1.1 +1.3
Mo Vaughn 31 FA-elig 139 1.9 7.2 -4.8
Mark Petkovsek 33 FA-elig 64 1.4 0.8 +0.9
Ken Hill 33 FA-elig 26 1.1 5.5 -4.1
Mike Magnante 34 FA-elig 53 1.0 0.8 +0.5
Jarrod Washburn 24 pre-arb 16 1.0 0.2 +1.0
Troy Percival 29 arb 60 0.6 2.0 -1.2
Ramon Ortiz 26 pre-arb 9 0.6 0.2 +0.6
Lou Pote 27 pre-arb 20 0.6 0.2 +0.5
Orlando Palmeiro 30 arb 109 0.5 0.3 +0.4
Steve Sparks 34 arb 29 0.5 1.4 -0.7
Jim Edmonds 29 FA-elig 55 0.4 3.5 -3.1
Jeff Huson 34 FA-elig 97 0.4 0.5 -0.0
Matt Luke 28 arb 18 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Steve Decker 33 – 28 0.3 – –
Scott Schoeneweis 25 pre-arb 31 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Mike Fyhrie 29 arb 16 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Bengie Molina 24 pre-arb 31 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Brian Cooper 24 – 5 0.1 – –
Tim Belcher 37 FA-elig 24 0.1 4.7 -4.5
Jack McDowell 33 FA-elig 4 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Mike Colangelo 22 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Juan Alvarez 25 – 8 0.0 – –
Steve Mintz 30 – 3 -0.0 – –
Reggie Williams 33 FA-elig 30 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Bret Hemphill 27 – 12 -0.1 – –
Jeff DaVanon 25 – 7 -0.1 – –
Tim Unroe 28 arb 27 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Al Levine 31 arb 50 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Mike Holtz 26 arb 28 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Dave Silvestri 31 – 3 -0.3 – –
Gary Disarcina 31 FA-elig 81 -0.4 3.1 -3.6
Matt Walbeck 29 FA-elig 107 -0.4 0.8 -1.3
Shigetoshi Hasegawa 30 pre-arb 64 -0.4 0.9 -1.4
Chris Pritchett 29 – 20 -0.5 – –
Charlie O'Brien 39 FA-elig 27 -0.7 0.7 -1.6
Todd Greene 28 arb 97 -1.3 0.2 -1.8
Trent Durrington 23 pre-arb 43 -1.3 0.2 -1.8
Andy Sheets 27 arb 87 -1.5 0.3 -2.2

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (82%). 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.