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GM: John Schuerholz (since 1991)

1994 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.5
WAB — wins above budget
+16.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–46 (0.596)
record
+1M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.2
roster fWAR
$43.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Greg Maddux 28 FA-elig 25 7.7 5.0 +4.0
Fred McGriff 30 FA-elig 113 4.8 3.8 +1.8
Tom Glavine 28 FA-elig 26 3.9 4.8 -0.3
David Justice 28 arb 104 3.7 3.2 +1.1
John Smoltz 27 FA-elig 21 2.4 3.2 -0.5
Steve Avery 24 arb 24 2.2 2.8 -0.2
Jeff Blauser 28 FA-elig 96 1.9 3.8 -1.6
Greg McMichael 27 pre-arb 51 1.6 0.2 +1.6
Ryan Klesko 23 pre-arb 92 1.4 0.1 +1.5
Mark Lemke 28 FA-elig 104 1.3 1.1 +0.4
Kent Mercker 26 arb 20 1.3 1.2 +0.2
Deion Sanders↔ CIN 26 arb 46 1.2 1.8 -0.4
Mark Wohlers 24 arb 51 1.1 0.2 +1.1
Charlie O'Brien 34 FA-elig 51 1.0 0.6 +0.7
Jose Oliva 23 pre-arb 19 0.8 0.1 +0.8
Roberto Kelly↔ CIN 29 FA-elig 63 0.6 1.8 -1.1
Bill Pecota 34 FA-elig 64 0.5 0.6 -0.0
Steve Bedrosian 36 FA-elig 46 0.5 0.8 -0.2
Terry Pendleton 33 FA-elig 77 0.5 3.2 -2.7
Mike Stanton 27 arb 49 0.4 1.4 -0.9
Javy Lopez 23 pre-arb 80 0.2 0.1 +0.2
Mike Mordecai 26 pre-arb 4 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Tony Tarasco 23 pre-arb 87 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Mike Bielecki 34 FA-elig 19 0.1 0.1 -0.1
Brad Woodall 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
Mike Kelly 24 pre-arb 30 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Dave Gallagher 33 FA-elig 89 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Gregg Olson 27 FA-elig 16 -0.1 1.9 -2.1
Milt Hill↔ SEA 28 arb 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Jarvis Brown 27 – 17 -0.2 – –
Rafael Belliard 32 FA-elig 46 -0.4 0.8 -1.3

31 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 29 of them (94%). 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.