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GM: John Schuerholz (since 1991)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+16.7
WAB — wins above budget
+13.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
103–59 (0.636)
record · won pennant
-4M
surplus $M (value/$)
51.5
roster fWAR
$68.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chipper Jones Jr. 27 FA-elig 157 7.3 4.2 +5.0
Andruw Jones 22 arb 162 6.9 0.3 +8.4
John Smoltz 32 FA-elig 29 6.2 7.8 +0.1
Greg Maddux 33 FA-elig 33 5.9 10.6 -3.2
Kevin Millwood 24 pre-arb 33 5.5 0.2 +6.7
Tom Glavine 33 FA-elig 36 4.2 7.0 -1.8
Brian Jordan 32 FA-elig 153 3.3 4.6 -0.5
John Rocker 24 pre-arb 74 2.3 0.2 +2.7
Gerald Williams 32 FA-elig 143 1.9 1.5 +0.9
Javy Lopez 28 FA-elig 65 1.9 5.2 -2.9
Terry Mulholland↔ CHC 36 FA-elig 16 1.4 1.1 +0.7
Ryan Klesko 28 FA-elig 133 1.2 4.8 -3.2
Brian R. Hunter 31 FA-elig 114 1.1 0.4 +1.0
Rudy Seanez 30 FA-elig 56 1.0 0.8 +0.5
Kevin McGlinchy 22 pre-arb 64 0.9 0.2 +1.0
Mike Remlinger 33 FA-elig 73 0.9 1.1 +0.0
Odalis Perez 21 pre-arb 18 0.8 0.2 +0.7
Russ Springer 30 – 49 0.4 – –
Eddie Pérez 31 arb 104 0.4 0.6 -0.1
Greg Myers↔ SDP 33 FA-elig 34 0.4 0.3 +0.1
Randall Simon 24 pre-arb 90 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Howard Battle 27 – 15 0.3 – –
José Hernández↔ CHC 29 FA-elig 48 0.2 0.8 -0.5
Sean Bergman↔ HOU 29 FA-elig 6 0.2 0.5 -0.2
Freddy Garcia↔ PIT 26 arb 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Keith Lockhart 34 arb 108 0.1 1.0 -0.9
John Hudek↔ CIN 32 arb 15 0.1 0.6 -0.5
George Lombard 23 – 6 0.1 – –
David Cortes 25 – 4 -0.0 – –
Joe Winkelsas 25 – 1 -0.0 – –
Everett Stull 27 – 1 -0.0 – –
Micah Bowie↔ CHC 24 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Mark Wohlers 29 FA-elig 2 -0.1 5.2 -5.3
Pascual Matos 24 – 6 -0.1 – –
Derrin Ebert 22 – 5 -0.2 – –
Jorge Fabregas↔ MIA 29 arb 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Mark DeRosa 24 – 7 -0.2 – –
Bret Boone 30 FA-elig 152 -0.2 2.9 -3.2
Mike Cather 28 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Bruce Chen 22 pre-arb 16 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Justin Speier 25 pre-arb 19 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
Ozzie Guillen 35 FA-elig 92 -0.5 0.6 -1.1
Otis Nixon 40 FA-elig 84 -0.6 1.5 -2.3
Walt Weiss 35 FA-elig 110 -0.6 3.0 -3.8

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (80%). 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.