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GM: Bobby Cox (since 1986)

1990 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.3
WAB — wins above budget
-6.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
65–97 (0.401)
record
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.2
roster fWAR
$12.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ron Gant 25 arb 152 5.1 0.1 +2.1
Lonnie Smith 34 FA-elig 135 4.0 1.5 +0.3
John Smoltz 23 pre-arb 38 3.9 0.2 +1.5
Charlie Leibrandt 33 FA-elig 24 3.3 1.0 +0.5
David Justice 24 pre-arb 127 3.3 0.1 +1.4
Tom Glavine 24 arb 34 3.0 0.3 +1.1
Tony Castillo 27 pre-arb 52 1.4 0.1 +0.5
Steve Avery 20 pre-arb 21 1.4 0.1 +0.5
Jeff Treadway 27 arb 128 1.3 0.2 +0.3
Dale Murphy↔ PHI 34 FA-elig 97 0.9 1.3 -0.8
Greg Olson 29 pre-arb 100 0.9 0.1 +0.3
Jeff Blauser 24 arb 115 0.8 0.2 +0.2
Derek Lilliquist↔ SDP 24 pre-arb 13 0.6 0.1 +0.2
Mark Grant↔ SDP 26 FA-elig 33 0.6 0.2 +0.1
Pete Smith 24 arb 13 0.6 0.2 +0.1
Francisco Cabrera 23 pre-arb 63 0.3 0.1 +0.0
Tommy Gregg 26 arb 124 0.2 0.2 -0.0
Paul Marak 24 – 7 0.2 – –
Marvin Freeman↔ PHI 27 – 9 0.2 – –
Marty Clary 28 arb 33 0.2 0.1 -0.0
Jim Vatcher↔ PHI 24 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.0 +0.0
Mark Lemke 24 pre-arb 102 0.1 0.1 -0.1
Mike Bell 22 pre-arb 36 0.1 0.1 -0.1
Dwayne Henry 28 FA-elig 34 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Sergio Valdez↔ CLE 25 arb 6 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Jeff Parrett↔ PHI 28 arb 20 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Charlie Kerfeld↔ HOU 26 arb 25 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Victor Rosario 23 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mike Stanton 23 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Doug Sisk 32 – 3 -0.1 – –
Rusty Richards 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
Geronimo Berroa 25 – 7 -0.1 – –
Oddibe McDowell 27 arb 113 -0.1 0.7 -0.8
Rick Luecken↔ TOR 29 pre-arb 36 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Kent Mercker 22 pre-arb 36 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Kelly Mann 22 – 11 -0.3 – –
Joe Hesketh↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 31 -0.3 0.3 -0.4
Jody Davis 33 FA-elig 12 -0.3 0.8 -0.9
Tommy Greene↔ PHI 23 pre-arb 5 -0.4 0.0 -0.2
Nick Esasky 30 FA-elig 9 -0.6 1.4 -1.6
Ernie Whitt 38 FA-elig 67 -0.7 1.2 -1.5
Joe Boever↔ PHI 29 arb 33 -0.9 0.1 -0.5
Jimmy Kremers 24 – 29 -0.9 – –
Alexis Infante 28 arb 20 -0.9 0.1 -0.5
Jim Presley 28 FA-elig 140 -1.0 0.6 -1.1
Andres Thomas 26 arb 84 -1.3 0.6 -1.1

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (85%). 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 ATL
John Smoltz198781.6
Max Fried201420.1
Dansby Swanson201516.1
Gary Sheffield200212.1
Ender Inciarte201511.4
Fred McGriff199311.2
Charlie Leibrandt19899.9
Denny Neagle19968.6
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Adam Wainwright200352.6
Elvis Andrus200729.8
Brook Jacoby198318.1
Ryan Klesko199916.6
William Contreras202216.4
Duane Ward198614.9
Andrelton Simmons201514.6
Nick Ahmed201312.9
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.