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GM: John Schuerholz (since 1991)

2003 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.7
WAB — wins above budget
+11.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
101–61 (0.623)
record · made playoffs
-16M
surplus $M (value/$)
50.7
roster fWAR
$103.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Gary Sheffield 34 FA-elig 155 7.3 11.4 +1.6
Javy Lopez 32 FA-elig 129 6.8 7.0 +5.0
Marcus Giles 25 pre-arb 145 6.7 0.3 +11.6
Andruw Jones 26 FA-elig 156 5.2 12.0 -2.7
Rafael Furcal 25 arb 156 4.0 2.2 +4.9
Chipper Jones Jr. 31 FA-elig 153 3.9 13.3 -6.4
Russ Ortiz 29 arb 35 3.9 4.7 +2.3
Greg Maddux 37 FA-elig 37 3.5 14.8 -8.6
Mike Hampton 30 FA-elig 32 3.1 13.6 -8.1
John Smoltz 36 FA-elig 62 2.9 10.7 -5.6
Vinny Castilla 35 FA-elig 147 1.9 5.0 -1.6
Horacio Ramirez 23 pre-arb 29 1.1 0.3 +1.6
Shane Reynolds 35 – 30 1.0 – –
Robert Fick 29 arb 126 0.9 1.0 +0.6
Darren Holmes 37 FA-elig 48 0.6 0.7 +0.4
Ray King 29 arb 80 0.6 0.6 +0.4
Will Cunnane 29 – 20 0.4 – –
Mike Hessman 25 – 19 0.3 – –
Jaret Wright↔ SDP 27 FA-elig 11 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Jason Marquis 24 arb 21 0.2 0.4 -0.1
Julio Franco 44 FA-elig 103 0.2 0.6 -0.3
Jesse Garcia 29 – 13 0.1 – –
Kevin Gryboski 29 pre-arb 64 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Kent Mercker↔ CIN 35 FA-elig 18 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Johnny Estrada 27 – 16 -0.0 – –
Ryan Langerhans 23 – 16 -0.0 – –
Joe Dawley 31 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Mark DeRosa 28 arb 103 -0.2 0.3 -0.6
Trey Hodges 25 pre-arb 52 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
Jung Keun Bong 22 pre-arb 44 -0.3 0.3 -0.9
Matt Franco 33 FA-elig 112 -0.4 0.8 -1.5
Henry Blanco 31 FA-elig 55 -0.6 1.3 -2.4
Darren Bragg 33 FA-elig 104 -1.1 0.5 -2.3
Roberto Hernandez 38 FA-elig 66 -1.1 0.6 -2.5

34 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 28 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 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.