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GM: Frank Wren (since 2008)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+15.4
WAB — wins above budget
+10.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
96–66 (0.593)
record · made playoffs
+24M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.6
roster fWAR
$93.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Freddie Freeman 23 arb 147 5.0 0.6 +12.8
Mike Minor 25 arb 32 3.6 0.5 +9.1
Andrelton Simmons 23 pre-arb 157 3.5 0.5 +9.0
Justin Upton 25 FA-elig 149 3.5 9.8 -0.4
Brian McCann 29 FA-elig 102 3.3 12.0 -3.1
Chris Johnson 28 arb 142 3.1 2.9 +5.5
Jason Heyward 23 arb 104 3.1 3.6 +4.6
Julio Teheran 22 pre-arb 30 3.0 0.5 +7.7
Kris Medlen 27 arb 32 2.8 2.6 +4.9
Evan Gattis 26 pre-arb 105 2.2 0.5 +5.4
Craig Kimbrel 25 arb 68 2.2 0.7 +5.2
Tim Hudson 37 FA-elig 21 2.0 9.0 -3.7
Alex Wood 22 – 31 1.3 0.3 +3.3
Jordan Schafer 26 arb 94 0.9 0.5 +2.0
David Carpenter 27 pre-arb 56 0.9 0.5 +1.9
Jordan Walden 25 arb 50 0.8 0.5 +1.7
Ramiro Pena 27 arb 50 0.8 0.6 +1.6
Paul Maholm 31 FA-elig 26 0.6 6.5 -5.0
Dan Uggla 33 FA-elig 136 0.5 13.0 -11.6
David Hale 25 – 2 0.5 0.1 +1.3
Luis Avilán 23 pre-arb 75 0.5 0.5 +0.8
Freddy Garcia↔ BAL 36 FA-elig 6 0.4 0.0 +0.9
Juan Francisco↔ MIL 26 arb 35 0.3 0.1 +0.6
Anthony Varvaro 28 arb 62 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Scott Downs↔ ANA 37 FA-elig 25 0.2 1.8 -1.2
Brandon Beachy 26 arb 5 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Elliot Johnson↔ KCR 29 arb 32 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Luis Ayala↔ BAL 35 FA-elig 37 0.1 0.9 -0.6
Tyler Pastornicky 23 pre-arb 20 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Blake DeWitt 27 – 4 0.0 – –
Phil Gosselin 24 – 4 0.0 – –
Cristhian Martinez 31 arb 2 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Gerald Laird 33 FA-elig 47 -0.0 1.5 -1.6
Christian Bethancourt 21 – 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Eric O'Flaherty 28 FA-elig 19 -0.1 4.3 -4.5
Reed Johnson 36 FA-elig 74 -0.1 1.6 -1.8
Todd Cunningham 24 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Jose Constanza 29 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Kameron Loe↔ CHC 31 FA-elig 9 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Joey Terdoslavich 24 pre-arb 55 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Cory Gearrin 27 pre-arb 37 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Paul Janish 30 arb 52 -0.3 0.7 -1.6
Cory Rasmus↔ ANA 25 – 3 -0.3 0.0 -0.9
B.J. Upton 28 FA-elig 126 -0.9 12.4 -15.0

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (95%). 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.