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GM: John Hart (since 2014)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.7
WAB — wins above budget
-1.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–83 (0.488)
record
-11M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.1
roster fWAR
$102.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jason Heyward 24 arb 149 4.7 4.5 +9.1
Freddie Freeman 24 arb 162 4.5 5.1 +7.9
Justin Upton 26 FA-elig 154 3.7 14.2 -3.4
Julio Teheran 23 arb 33 3.3 0.8 +8.7
Ervin Santana 31 FA-elig 31 3.1 14.1 -5.1
Alex Wood 23 pre-arb 35 2.7 0.5 +7.3
Evan Gattis 27 pre-arb 108 2.6 0.5 +7.2
Aaron Harang 36 FA-elig 33 2.5 1.0 +6.2
Craig Kimbrel 26 arb 63 2.4 7.0 +0.1
Andrelton Simmons 24 pre-arb 146 1.7 1.0 +3.8
David Carpenter 28 arb 65 0.9 0.5 +2.0
Jordan Walden 26 arb 58 0.8 1.5 +0.9
Mike Minor 26 arb 25 0.6 3.9 -2.1
Gavin Floyd 31 FA-elig 9 0.6 4.0 -2.3
James Russell↔ CHC 28 arb 22 0.4 0.6 +0.6
Chris Johnson 29 arb 153 0.4 4.8 -3.6
Anthony Varvaro 29 arb 61 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Ramiro Pena 28 arb 81 0.3 0.7 +0.3
Phil Gosselin 25 – 46 0.3 – –
Chasen Shreve 23 – 15 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Ian Thomas 27 pre-arb 16 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Shae Simmons 23 – 26 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Tommy La Stella 25 – 93 0.2 – –
Emilio Bonifácio↔ CHC 29 FA-elig 41 0.1 0.9 -0.6
Joey Terdoslavich 25 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Juan Jaime 26 pre-arb 16 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Pedro Beato 27 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.3 -0.3
B.J. Upton 29 FA-elig 141 0.0 13.4 -13.4
Ryan Buchter 27 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Gus Schlosser 25 – 15 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jose Constanza 30 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
David Hale 26 pre-arb 45 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Tyler Pastornicky 24 pre-arb 28 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Jordan Schafer↔ MIN 27 arb 63 -0.3 0.7 -1.5
Luis Avilán 24 pre-arb 62 -0.3 0.5 -1.3
Ryan Doumit 33 FA-elig 100 -0.7 3.5 -5.4
Christian Bethancourt 22 pre-arb 31 -0.7 0.5 -2.4
Dan Uggla↔ SFG 34 FA-elig 48 -0.7 12.2 -14.2
Gerald Laird 34 FA-elig 53 -1.6 1.5 -6.0

39 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 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.