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GM: Frank Wren (since 2008)

2008 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-11.7
WAB — wins above budget
-3.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
72–90 (0.444)
record
-31M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.3
roster fWAR
$99.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brian McCann 24 arb 145 8.3 1.0 +17.7
Chipper Jones Jr. 36 FA-elig 128 7.1 12.3 +3.7
Mark Teixeira↔ ANA 28 arb 103 3.4 8.2 -0.5
Jair Jurrjens 22 pre-arb 37 3.3 0.4 +7.0
Yunel Escobar 25 pre-arb 136 2.8 0.4 +5.9
Kelly Johnson 26 arb 150 2.6 0.4 +5.5
Jorge Campillo 29 – 39 2.0 – –
Tim Hudson 32 FA-elig 23 1.9 15.5 -11.2
Grégor Blanco 24 pre-arb 144 1.2 0.4 +2.3
Martín Prado 24 pre-arb 78 1.1 0.4 +2.1
Will Ohman 30 FA-elig 83 0.9 1.6 +0.4
John Smoltz 41 FA-elig 6 0.8 14.0 -12.1
Omar Infante 26 FA-elig 96 0.7 1.4 +0.1
Josh Anderson 25 – 40 0.7 – –
Buddy Carlyle 30 – 45 0.5 – –
Jeff Bennett 28 arb 72 0.5 0.4 +0.8
Mark Kotsay↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 88 0.5 5.6 -4.6
Mike Hampton 35 FA-elig 13 0.4 16.0 -15.0
Jorge Julio↔ CLE 29 FA-elig 12 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Vladimir Nunez 33 – 23 0.2 – –
Greg Norton↔ SEA 35 – 111 0.2 – –
Michael Gonzalez 30 arb 36 0.1 2.4 -2.1
Rafael Soriano 28 FA-elig 14 0.1 2.6 -2.4
James Parr 22 – 6 0.1 – –
Phil Stockman 28 – 6 0.1 – –
Matt DeSalvo 27 – 2 0.0 – –
Brayan Peña 26 arb 14 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Blaine Boyer 26 arb 76 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Julian Tavarez↔ BOS 35 FA-elig 36 -0.1 2.7 -2.8
Peter Moylan 29 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Francisley Bueno 27 – 1 -0.1 – –
Royce Ring 27 arb 42 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Ruben Gotay 25 arb 88 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Jo-Jo Reyes 23 – 25 -0.1 – –
Charlie Morton 24 – 16 -0.2 – –
Elmer Dessens 37 – 4 -0.2 – –
Chris Resop 25 arb 16 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Jason Perry 27 – 4 -0.2 – –
Brent Lillibridge 24 – 29 -0.2 – –
Jeff Ridgway 27 – 10 -0.2 – –
Casey Kotchman↔ ANA 25 arb 43 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Clint Sammons 25 – 23 -0.4 – –
Corky Miller 32 FA-elig 31 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Brandon Jones 24 – 41 -0.5 – –
Tom Glavine 42 FA-elig 14 -0.6 8.0 -9.3
Manny Acosta 27 pre-arb 46 -0.6 0.4 -1.8
Matt Diaz 30 arb 43 -0.8 1.2 -3.1
Chuck James 26 arb 7 -0.9 0.4 -2.4
Jeff Francoeur 24 arb 155 -1.3 0.5 -3.3

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (65%). 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.